A pleasure to be in such esteemed company for this roundtable!

A fab couple of days @sshmedicine.bsky.social. First a brillaint roundtable with @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @janetweston.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @ruthhalkon.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social and Louise Jackson on Putting Police back into Histories of Health.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Yes! I read so much interesting work thanks to bsky. Recent books: Radical Acts by @georgesevers.bsky.social Cisgender by @perryzurn.bsky.social Femmephilia by @reproutopia.bsky.social Deviants and Trailblazers by @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social The Log Books thanks to @suchmayer.bsky.social rec

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

📣CFPs 📣London Foundling Hospital Conference 16 October 2026 @ihr.bsky.social Hidden Identities in the London Foundling Hospital Archives, New Questions and Discoveries Deadline for proposals 1 August #histmed

My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!

I have a new article out on miscarriage in late twentieth-century Ireland. Special thanks to @delaycara.bsky.social for organising a 2024 workshop from which this & the other articles in the special issue stemmed, and for all the support through to publication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday, at our AGM, I stepped down as Secretary of the LGBTQ+ special interest group of the Oral History Society. It has been such a pleasure to serve in this role since October 2018, and I look forward to continuing to be involved in this special group.

We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...

Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians

Responding to a growing urgency to rethink class in historical terms, Gianmaria Brunazzi discusses ‘E. P. Thompson in Italy: Reception, Translation, and Class as a Historical Problem’. Join us, 18 June, Bloomsbury www.EPThompsonInItaly.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

We're a way off publication (likely December this year) and this is not the cover, but it's exciting to see that our book has a web page! www.routledge.com/Reusing-Oral...

Now in translation, all 23 volumes (1899-1923) of the Annual of Sexual Intermediaries, ed. Magnus Hirschfeld. eBook, paperback, hardcover. Early #GermanGayMovement #Intersex #Transgender #lgbtqHistory in real time #MagnusHirschfeld 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1CCLYZ

Dream team of @carorusterholz.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social & Naomi Samake-Bäckert starting day two at #MBS26 with their panel on 'Race and sexual reproductive health in post-war Britain'

📣Out now on #firstview! George J. Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social on 'HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside' #Urban #Rural #Heteronormativity #Sexual #Morality #History #Demography 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A smart piece from George - as always - and an important intervention into studies of HIV/AIDS, this time in the English countryside.

For Pride Month, Radical Online Archives has many collections of LGBTQ+ historical documents from across the world listed. Here is a selection of those listed. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm so pleased to see that this chapter has been published. It's in a wonderful open access collection, Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity which emerged from the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A good day, so I’m celebrating! Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel, Janine Schemmer and I have submitted our book Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis! It will be the 15th book in Routledge’s excellent Practicing Oral History series and, all being well, should be out later this year.

Huge thanks to @loladickinson.bsky.social for this generous review of my book in @mbhjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

On Monday evening I will be joined by Katerina Suverina in Geneva to talk about drag and HIV/AIDS activism. Do join us if you can! www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Today! An overview of some of the work I have been doing on the history on racialisation and sexual and reproductive health in postwar Britain. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

I’ve had a wonderful time in Amsterdam, talking about sexual health & queer histories. Yesterday it was great to meet students from across the Netherlands in a masterclass on queer history, who are doing such interesting work! Thanks to Jesse van Amelsvoort and Gianmaria Colpani for the invitation.

Exciting CfP here!

From the current issue: "(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History" by Emily Bridger (@uoearchhist.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September! Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.

I’m on my way to Amsterdam where, later today, I’ll be speaking about Black HIV/AIDS organising in Leicester, and the establishment of new public sexual health work in the early 1990s. Room E1.02 Bushuis building, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 16:00-17:30.

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.

I was sorry to read that the Rev. Dr. Malcolm Johnson, a pioneering gay priest within the CofE and a major figure in the Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement, died in February aged 89. As Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate in London, Malcolm provided a home for the LGCM and blessed gay couples.

This is a really important piece. University of Glasgow research suggested that about 335,000 people died early as a result of Tory austerity policies. www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive... This suggests those policies left us ill-prepared for Covid and have blighted healthy lives for years to come.

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Next month, I'll be speaking at the Graduate Institute about the research I've been working on recently. I'll be looking at sexual and reproductive health experiences in three English cities and asking what they tell us about Britain's decolonising decades. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

I am broadly supportive of not including place of publication in citations, with the obvious exception of the erasure of Basingstoke from our work.

There is a February sale on at @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social which means you can get my book Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England for just over £16. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-a...

And what are one of the key engines of the ‘Manchester model’, according to this article? Universities.

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

My team are looking for a new team leader and Modern Britain (post-1782) specialist. Closes 22nd February and do get in touch if you have any questions www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ050/t...

Myself, Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel and Janine Schemmer have just submitted the first draft of our book Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis to our series editor. Still a lot of work to do, but what a great feeling!

To mark the 100th anniversary of the General Strike we have a special event planned @ihr.bsky.social on Weds 29 April. Prof Jonathan Schneer will be discussing his new book on the strike alongside Paul Novak, Jon Cruddas, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite & Jim Moher. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Does anyone have a copy of Participant Observers by @freddyfoks.bsky.social who can tell me on what page this appears? "The archives left by social anthropologists are exceptionally rich and have been surprisingly underexplored by historians." It comes directly after n15 in the introduction. Thanks!

Following the news of another political defection in Westminster, we're resharing our recent #HistParl article on the history of MPs 'crossing the floor' and changing their party affiliation, drawing heavily upon extracts from our #OralHistory archive. historyofparliament.com/2026/01/16/c...

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Morning reading.

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️