📢New article from me, Niyah Campbell, @kentishscribbler.bsky.social & @sarahvmarks.bsky.social📢 'The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c.1800–2020' is OA with History of the Human Sciences doi.org/10.1177/0952... #HistPsych #HistSTM #BlackHistory

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Join us at #RCN25 Congress for the Sign Painting Studio with artist Peter Liversidge. Create your own placard, some of which will feature in 'The Art of Nursing' exhibition in late June. Materials are provided, and you can take your placard home. Exhibition Hall, Monday – Wednesday, 10 am – 4 pm.

On the way home from RCN Congress after a busy day signpainting with Peter Liversidge and @rcnlibraries.bsky.social. So many fantastic placards for our #ArtofNursing exhibition! The sign studio opens again tomorrow and Wed 🪧

Unequal: the history of health and society - Exhibition launched! The exhibition is free and open to all at the Royal College of GPs, 30 Euston Square (next to Euston Station). You can also see a (slightly different) version of the exhibition online here: www.rcgp.org.uk/about/museum...

How did I not know Betsi Cadwaladr was buried in Abney Park until today? #HistNursing

Well, that was tempting fate. Since I posted this they have eaten all the runner beans! 😼

I have grown stuff! (mostly tomatoes) This is a rare achievement and I am now counting the days until they die or the cats eat them 🌱

#HealthInequalities www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The mystery of supermarket substitutions. I order mushrooms. They send me… cheese and garlic bread??

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ On #TransDayOfVisibility — and every day — we celebrate trans people and reaffirm the fight for a world where they can live freely, without discrimination or hate.

In 2002, buying in Waltham Forest cost 6x the average salary - by 2018, it jumped to 14x. House prices have now hit £525K, while the council pledged 35% of new homes would be affordable. So why are so many still out of reach?

The UK Government committed to tackling child poverty, and right now it is rising. At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty. 2/3

This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

Did anyone vote for this? @meadwaj.bsky.social tears apart Rachel Reeves' #Budget2025

Being a downright #TypicalHistorian at a music festival

YouGov poll asking if I believe in vampires and wondering if that’s linked to the #SpringStatement

From M’Gonigle and Kirby,‘Poverty and Public Health’, 1936. This features in the exhibition I’m curating on health inequalities. Hospital admissions for malnutrition were on the rise even before today’s welfare cuts.

Excellent exhibition, ‘Making the Rounds’ at @rcnlibraries.bsky.social in London.This exhibit explores the experience and stories of workhouse nurses in Norfolk. As artefacts tend to not survive from workhouse infirmaries, artist Connie Flynn used textiles to share these stories #workhouse #histmed

1/There’s been a blitzkrieg of stories like this over the past week about trans people. 0.5% of the population. All appearing across the biggest media platforms in the UK. From the BBC to national press. Rolled out by Tufton Street think tanks, based on ‘studies’ written by anti-trans campaigners.

Post a warning: My all time favourite from my local chicken shop in Hackney 10+ years ago (I still don’t understand it)

This coming Monday in Woodford: a welcome antidote to the awfulness of politics right now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1281232473...

Only recently discovered Wandsworth Prison Museum exists but it is fascinating. Tiny but fascinating. Here’s the unofficial prison magazine from 1939 www.capcollections.org.uk/business-dir...

Seed planting session at the community allotments today, and some tiny daffodils enjoying the sunshine 🌞

This is tomorrow evening! Still time to book

An impactful statement from artist Jolie Goodman who spoke at our third Art of Nursing webinar Art in January. The full recording is available on our website: buff.ly/4i1VzAz Join us for the next webinar at 1.00pm on Thursday 13 March. Book your ticket: buff.ly/3D9ZCLX

Great day talking about nursing and the climate crisis @fulhampalace.bsky.social. The only photo I took was a (lovely) pond, but all the speakers were fantastic. Especially wowed by the idea of zero emission steam from the Museum of Water and Steam which I must now visit!

For #Caturday: a poignant photo by Paul Koudounaris of a beloved cat's tombstone. "'He was only a cat,' but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain." Check out his book, FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, about pet cemeteries and memorials: bookshop.org/p/books/fait...

Contribute to a self-harm Q&A: Let me know your 'unanswered questions about self-harm' below or in a message if sensitive, by 11th Feb & I'll provide some well researched, non-judgmental, practical answers on Self Injury Awareness Day. #siad2025 #siad #selfharm #selfinjury #mentalhealth #learning

"much science in many societies is political and always has been"

30 years ago today.💔 I don't remember what I was doing, because Richey's disappearance wasn't made public for about 2 weeks. I did memorise his car numberplate in case he passed me on my way to school though. I still remember it.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

Oh god, reading AI job applications! 🫠 If you really must do it, don’t include the prompt as well as the response 🙃

Recommending private sector use for the NHS crisis is like recommending more alcohol for a hangover. Sure it offers a slight temporary reprieve - but you find yourself worse off tomorrow. It's time to break the cycle and invest in our NHS. weownit.org.uk/public-owner... @we-own-it.bsky.social

My new favourite cartoon (says the woman with a Memento Mori tattoo)

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

So depressing. And one of the first things to be cut anywhere is often support staff, so then you get another death spiral in income, with fewer people to manage admissions, say, leading to fewer students

Charlie says take those glasses off! (they ruin nose rubs) #cats

☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢 The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇 #HistSTM sshm.org/portfolio/pr...

📢New #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network Event📢 👀 #Geography, #Interdisciplinarity and the #Humanities👀 💥Cheryl McGeachan 💥Hester Parr 💥Ed Kiely 💥Chris Philo 💥Felicity Callard Online, 29 Jan, 3-4:30pm GMT. Free registration 👇 #HistSTM #HistGeog #HistPsych #MedHums #MedicalHumanities

Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

As a historian of the idea of “normal” I think I could probably work with this

Enjoying revisiting 'Mind Boggling Medical History' for a new project. This was a card game Sally Frampton and I developed where every statement was a current, past or fictional medical theory or practice. Here's an easy one to start with...

Hello new followers! Intro time: I’m a historian of medicine and curator, currently working on health inequalities and causes of mental ill-health. Most recent book was “Am I Normal?” (spoiler: the answer is no). profilebooks.com/work/am-i-no...

And if you're into history (of all types), here's a #starterpack of historians in Britain! I'm a medical historian and my latest book, THE FACEMAKER, is about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WW1. Find all sorts on this list! go.bsky.app/Fpw6Tvr

UK - National Museums Liverpool secures grant for anti-racist teaching fellowship The institution will work with a local school to develop decolonising teaching practices www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...