Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖 lnkd.in/e47UeTsd

Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/

Fearghus would be an excellent supervisor!

"Running for the shelter of her mother's little helper" From Victorian morphine tonics to 1950s benzos and barbies to millennial wine-o’clock, @ellajglover.bsky.social tells the history of drugs aimed at the “mum market”. 🙏 to @dhbuffalo.bsky.social for the smarts. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Very much looking forward to reading and assigning this - @benjamin-bland.bsky.social's new article on music as a site of racial formation (rather than liberal integration) in modern Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...

this is tomorrow, you can sign-up here: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

giving a paper on Leah Betts and ordinariness in ‘90s Britain at UCD in a fortnight’s time, 4pm thursday 12 February, in-person/online, all welcome! more details here: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...

Today, 2.00 UK time, in person and online: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...

Much needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC) And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Brilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social Congrats Malcolm! doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...

aahhh, the familiar tang of a friday afternoon "after careful consideration..." email

'“There is a generation of young scholars who are finding themselves stuck in what feels like a period of protracted adolescence,” wrote one young academic earlier this year, in a series of blogs on the early career researcher experience published by the Society for the Study of French History.' 1/3

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙 ☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here: tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w

to borrow a line from steve albini, "some of your friends are this fucked"

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song #eahmh25

there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts

I can’t in good faith defend ‘Human Traffic’ as a piece of cinema, but it did make culturally visible an entire lifestyle. John Simms: “To me, it’s like a time capsule: it perfectly captures the end of the 90s. That’s what it was like for millions of people every single weekend.”

Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...

new chapter from me on the folk legend around Ecstasy and football-related violence (or "hooliganism", if you prefer) rdcu.be/esUdJ

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

very apposite that this is getting re-issued simultaneously with @mikejay.bsky.social's book about Thomas Beddoes and the discovery of laughing gas... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

for a brief history of this: thepolyphony.org/2024/06/10/e...

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

"Psychedelic Imaginaries," a special issue of SAQ edited by Ramzi Fawaz, collates fresh and theoretical perspectives on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. View the TOC: buff.ly/sYpPsmt Buy this issue: buff.ly/QnCxi44

PhD Fellowship -- "The relationship between pharmaceuticals and society – including medical cannabis and psychedelics – has attracted sustained attention..." ⭐May 26 2025, review of initial apps  ⭐June 9 2025, international candidates ⭐June 30 2025, domestic candidates aihp.org/announcement...

@alexdymock.bsky.social has guest curated an exhibition for the Museum of Sex in NYC drawing on her research. The exhibition draws on hidden histories to illustrate how our 21st century understanding of sex is shaped by the "altered states" brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances.

do i know anyone going to the Wellcome library in the next week or two that wouldn't mind photographing a couple of pages of a book for me?

proofs are in

Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP “Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements” Deadline for Proposals: 20 April 2025 Online & In Person Symposium: 23 & 24 October 2025 Learn more at docs.google.com/document/d/1... #history #histmed #cannabis #policy #marijuana #health

Today I'll be lecturing about the history of this: theconversation.com/in-depth-out...

If interested in changing attitudes to motherhood, radio as health comms, women's voices & medic's expanding responsibilities, my new article explores “Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: Postnatal Depression Narratives, Treatment and Reception on BBC Radio, 1946–85 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

coming soon - just in time for the end of the football season in May, i have a chapter in this on Ecstasy and the decline of "hooliganism" link.springer.com/book/9783031...

save yourself a few ££s over ebay prices for the og...

Next Tuesday (4th of March) we welcome Merrilees Roberts (QMUL) to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for the next @cshhh.bsky.social seminar! 4-5.30 pm in TL565 to hear about 'Keats’s Blushing Bodies: Inflammation, Arousal and Critique'. All welcome, there will be wine and crisps obviously.

wrote a tiny bit on the gender politics of Boy's Own a couple of years back... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job klaxons! We are recruiting three postdoc Fellows to work on the global histories of #HIV and #AIDS #activism in #India; #South #Africa; #Turkey and the Middle East. Thanks to generous funding from the UKRI. You may find the links in the comments below.

first @cshhh.bsky.social seminar of 2025 this afternoon, w/ @npapadogian.bsky.social speaking on "Translating interviews with Greek transgender HIV/AIDS activists". 4pm, TL565, all welcome! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

What if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay

First post on bsky and first @cshhh.bsky.social seminar @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Next Tuesday we will be joined by Nikolaos Papadogiannis who will present on 'Translating interviews with Greek transgender HIV/AIDS activists', 4-5.30pm in the Teaching and Learning Building 565. All welcome!

Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history! The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ 🔗👇🏽 www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...

yeah, this is a really good article drugs historians!

🇬🇧 Drug use trends, 16-24 year olds, 1995 v 2023: 💨 Speed: tanked, from 12% to sub 1% 🙂 E: fallen by two thirds 🌱 Weed: halved 🍭 LSD: halved, but creeping up 🍄 Mushies: after falling, back to '95 levels ❄️ Cocaine: tripled (altho same level as '00) 🐴 Ketamine: tripled (since K stats started '07)