Emily Baughan

Emily is interested in how children are cared for, and who by. Her first book, Saving the Children (UCP, 2021), was shortlisted for the RHS Whitbread Prize and Grace Abbott Book Prize. Now, she is working on a new project titled Love’s Labour: A History of Love and Work, which traces the story of infant care from Victorian baby farms to modern day nursery schools. Her writing on childcare, child rights and contemporary welfare states can be found in Jacobin, Tribune, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Emily has worked and studied at universities across the world, including in New York, Florence and Cape Town, and is now a senior lecturer in history at the University of Sheffield. She has also collaborated extensively with the humanitarian sector, teaching history to aid workers and helping modern NGOs grapple with the legacies of their colonial pasts. She’s the chairperson of a community playschool in Sheffield

Photo courtesy of Andrew Roberts