SELCIE @_SELCIE_

Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative @EdinburghUni, working in @EdinCulture Museum of Childhood. Exhibition @ Museum of Edinburgh until 7 Sept🌿 blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/ Edinburgh, Scotland Joined October 2016

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

4 weeks ago

We're delighted to be part of this with @LoisMBurke! 🦉 CFP for @EdinburghUni December symposium on Scottish & Irish Women Writers of Children's Literature. Please share widely! 🙏 Abstract deadline Aug 31st!✨️

Dr Lois Burke @LoisMBurke

4 weeks ago

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

a month ago

News from the SELCIE owl!🦉💚🌿 We are now posting only over on Instagram where, for the month of August, we'll be sharing daily images, insights & highlights from our *Nurture through Nature with Children's Books' exhibition. Keep an our website too 🌱 instagram.com/selcie_project…

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Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture

2 months ago

Join us for our varied family programme of events to accompany our exhibition 'Nurture Through Nature with Children’s Books' - A Museum of Edinburgh exhibition. Lectures, storytelling, family art and wellbeing sessions. Explore here: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/nurtu…

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

This looks a wonderful event! #naturenurtureedinburgh 💚🌿

Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture

3 months ago

This looks a wonderful event! #naturenurtureedinburgh 💚🌿

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Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture

3 months ago

Anyone else feel it is time to get out your shorts now #summer has arrived in #Edinburgh. A teddy from 1941 living their best life in Museum of Childhood. #toys #teddy #childhood.

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Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture

3 months ago

The Lamplighter RL Stevenson ..It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. 📸 @ snapsbyshirin on Instagram. The Writers' Museum is open daily 10am-5pm.

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Ainsley McIntosh @DrAinsleyMac

3 months ago

Today’s Nurture through Nature @_SELCIE_ symposium ended as it began with a bountiful garden of ideas from wonderful speakers. Very grateful to @SarahDunnigan1 for organising this event and nurturing this project to fruition🍃💜

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Ruth Boreham @RuthBoreham

3 months ago

Huge huge thanks to @SarahDunnigan1 @_SELCIE_ & all those involved in organising/running & speaking at the most brilliant of symposiums this afternoon. Heading home with lots of notes, lots of thoughts, lots of projects I wish someone wld pay me to do! Loved it - v happy Ruth ❤️

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Last Q&A of the day with Lois Burke and Ainsley McIntosh: Discussing Victorian and Edwardian female writing and nature’s influence on it. Thanks to everyone who made (and still makes) this event so fabulous! #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Ainsley McIntosh delves into the engagement with nature from an intimate embodied perspective of Elizabeth Rae Keir, Edinburgh’s own poet, in her talk on 'Written in a storm: Care, Consolation, and Elizabeth Rae Keir'. 🌹 #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Lois Burke introducing our audience to manuscript magazines handwritten by late-Victorian girls during her talk on 'Family Connections and Care for the Natural World in Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Childhood Writing' 📚 #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

🌿 Elizabeth Darling exploring women's role in children's education in Edwardian Edinburgh during her presentation 'To be a kindergartner is the perfect development of womanliness: Reflection on women's agency as social and urban reformers in Edwardian Edinburgh'. #selcie_project

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Jane Whinnett catching the audience with her talk on “The Little Gardener” - discussing Froebel training and education in early kindergartens #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Lyn Stevens and Rina Teske answering questions about children’s interactions with fairytales and how fairies were depicted in children’s books at Nature Nurture Symposium #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

Rina Teske is discussing children’s interaction with nature in schools and stories at home in her talk “From within and beyond the garden walls: Tracing the Green Thread in Scottish Nature Writing for Children, 1800-1900” #selcie_project

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SELCIE @_SELCIE_

3 months ago

We are thrilled to have heard all about the rich collection of children's literature within the Museum of Childhood by our fantastic speaker Lyn Stevens! #selcie_project 🦋

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EmpathyLabUK @EmpathyLabUK

3 months ago

🎉And we're off! The #Empathydayfestival is in full swing 🎉 Our brilliant Children’s Laureate @Frank_CottrellBoyce and a whole host of amazing author and illustrator friends taking part in the EmpathyDayFestival. Join us - link in bio!