News & events

Keep up to date with articles about our research project and the recent events we have run with our project partners

Telephone memories and the importance of place

Our research explores the changing nature of children and young people’s telephone use and telephone cultures in late-twentieth century Britain. Within this w...

Tracing themes in our digital map

As we look back on a year of submissions to the Telephonic Youth digital map, in this post we identify key themes in the memories that are now published on our ...

Digital mapping one year in: our research methods; or what we did

In August 2021, the Telephonic Youth team began to collect memories through our social media channels and at in-person public events in Southampton. Over the ne...

A Very Brief History of LGBTQ+ Youth and the Telephone

The telephone is an everyday object which serves a practical purpose: enabling communication at a distance. Having spoken to hundreds of people at a range of ...

Telephonic Youth at Science and Engineering Day 2022

On 7 May, the Telephonic Youth team took part in our second SOTSEF 2022 event (after our Community Takeover at John Hansard Gallery), the University of Southamp...

Community art exhibition foregrounds new youth voices in research

We were incredibly proud to see the first of our two community art exhibitions launched in Southampton at the start of April 2022. Dial up featured the artwork ...

Community Takeover: Thinking about phones past, present and future

Throughout March and April, our friends at Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery have been running their 2022 Community Takeover events. Exploring the themes of ...

‘Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card’

The Telephonic Youth team have been spending a lot of time in libraries recently—though we weren’t there to borrow books (even if there were more than a few...

Six months of Telephonic Youth Space to Create!

Colourful heads, beautiful prints, drums and memory maps. Perhaps not your first thoughts when someone asks you about telephones. But with the artistic inspirat...

Telephonic Youth at Hands-On Humanities Day 2021

Saturday 20 November was a great day for the Telephonic Youth team! With the help of two of Southampton university’s fantastic History undergraduate students,...

Collecting your memories on social media

Here at Telephonic Youth, we’re looking to collect as many memories as we can about young people’s telephone use in 1980s and 90s Britain. We’re now colle...

Mapping Southampton’s Phone Spaces

If you’ve been following the project, you’ll know that we’re creating a map of people’s memories of using phones as children and teenagers from the 1980...