Abstract
In 2023 David Scott highlighted the importance of children and young people for the field of missiology. This article contributes further to that discussion by opening up a conversation that focuses on the rich body of historical scholarship on children and the Protestant missionary movement that has emerged over the last three to four decades. It argues that this body of knowledge potentially expands how we view the relationship of younger ages to Christian mission and offers both ideas and methodologies useful to ongoing missiological research. Three historical vignettes from New Zealand are positioned with respect to wider historiographical trajectories and contexts. Then it considers selected methodological emphases in history research, that may open up new ways of approaching both historical and contemporary missiological resources.