Selcie in the Spring
SELCIE is taking a little break now that our Growing Up With Books exhibition and Opening Up the Archives symposium are both over. We will be returning with new exciting plans in the late Spring of 2019! Jan 25, 2019
SELCIE is taking a little break now that our Growing Up With Books exhibition and Opening Up the Archives symposium are both over. We will be returning with new exciting plans in the late Spring of 2019! Jan 25, 2019
Two weeks ago, on November 23rd, SELCIE hosted our first symposium, Opening Up the Archives. The conference took place in a very festive Teviot Row House at the University of Edinburgh. Our fabulous SELCIE team member and Museum of Childhood curator, Lyn Stevens, opened the day and gave her own talk …
This week our new team members will introduce themselves! They have written a little bit about why they joined the SELCIE team. Jane Bonsall In her blog post on the 5th of October, titled “Theorising Scottish Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” Fiona McCulloch mentions the academic push-back against the treatment …
In this blog post, I will explore how many factors – both technological and ideological – have affected changes in the development of the illustration of children’s books. Within contemporary children’s literature criticism, it is argued that ‘children’s books’ can be for readers of any age (Beckett 2008). This age …
In this blogpost, Rosaleen Nolan shines a light into the darker corners of one of the most beloved nurseries in children’s literature… “Wendy has not yet appeared, but she has been trying to come ever since that loyal nurse cast the humorous shadow of woman upon the scene and …
In this post, Fiona McCulloch argues for the timeliness of critical engagement with children’s and young adult literature – and how it can help chart journeys into new ways of thinking… * You’re reading too much into it’… ‘it’s just a children’s story’ … ‘don’t ruin it for me’… …
In today’s blogpost, Michelle Anjirbag shares a personal reflection about childhood ‘reading memories’ – the particular stories which have had a formative and longlasting influence, shaping who she was then and now…. * My PhD might be on Disney and fairy tale adaptations now, but the princess I looked …
None of us imagined when we first started unpacking the Museum of Childhood book collection over 2 years ago, that we would subsequently be performing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. But it has happened! In May 2017 I sent a tentative email to the book festival organisers, explaining that …
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The SELCIE team have been busy since the exhibition opened at the start of June 2018. And, though we’ve not been to the archives very often recently, we have been out and about, sharing the findings of SELCIE. On June 29th, Lyn, Danielle, and Morgan visited Magdalen College, Oxford University, …