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. 🗃️

"Coughs & sneezes spread diseases" but it's fine to carry on smoking a pipe. Timely Government advice from the 1940s, from the Brewers' Society archive. mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/BLR/...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

That's why Trump is decapitating and gutting the CDC - a bit like what's happening to those chlorinated chickens he wants to force into our supermarkets.

Sundials say ‘I only tell the sunny hours’ because it is all they can do. Given half a chance, our memories would do the same. But life would not be half as interesting. Ronald Blythe

We're back, rested and ready for more archive exploration in 2026! As we balance precariously on the metaphorical penny farthing of time, here's hoping for a healthy, happy and peaceful New Year for us all - wobbling slightly but still upright and speeding onwards (fitted sportsing shorts optional)

Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social reviews 'Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England', by George J. Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Give me your best recent British & Irish LGBTQI+ history recommendations! I'm updating the reading list for my queer & trans history module. Looking for things published in the last 2-3 years. 🌈🎓 ‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #queerhistory

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

It's that time of year again... the History Workshop team present our "Radical Reads" for 2025! www.historyworkshop.... Image source: Openverse.

Thanks Nikos for reviewing my book!

A very interesting PhD project is looking for interviewees with LGBTQ+ photographers with experiences of making photographs in home darkrooms. Get in touch if this applies, and do share.

I'm not going to share Stock's Unherd article. But here's the important part: "Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes." The ven diagram of the anti-trans & the anti-woman lobby is a circle.

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

One of the many great things I got out of last week’s trip to Montréal for the NACBS was a copy of @sarahcrook.bsky.social’s new book. I can’t wait to get stuck into this!

Important reminder of the national obliviousness to the crises at the British Library and why it should concern policymakers. www.cityam.com/the-british-...

📣 CALL FOR CHAPTERS 📣 Co-editors Amy Tooth Murphy & @georgesevers.bsky.social invite expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook. Visit: oralhistory.org/wp-content/u... #OralHistory #OralHistoryTheory #Routledge #OralHistorian

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'! There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too. #HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex

Yesterday it was my honour to receive the 2025 Phanes Award in HIV Information Work from Tupilak (Nordic Rainbow Culture Workers) & ILGCN (the International Rainbow Culture Network) in Stockholm. I am very grateful for this recognition of my work, and only sorry that I couldn't be there in person!

#AfS: Die Beschäftigung mit dem AIDS-Aktivismus steht noch am Anfang, konstatiert Rezensent @adrianlehne.bsky.social. Die Studie von @georgesevers.bsky.social nimmt sich der Lücke an und nimmt nicht nur den konfrontativen, sondern auch den leiseren Aktivismus in den Blick: library.fes.de/pdf-f...

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.” My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...