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https://shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bildschirmfoto-2025-03-24-um-09.32.21.png730424This spring, Jennifer Crane published her new book ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 with Oxford University Press (open access). It expands upon the article “Britain and Europe’s Gifted Children in the Quests for Democracy, Welfare and Productivity, 1970-1990.” Contemporary European History 32, no. 2 (2023): 235-53. For this article, she received an honorable mention for the 2024 Fass-Sandin Article Prize in English by the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth. In this interview, we discuss the twentieth-century concept and legacy of ‘gifted children.’ In your article, you study “gifted children” in