Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism. #histmed

The CSHHH anniversary is TODAY! Join us at 3:30 for two brilliant talks, chat, drinks and snacks!

Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

THIS IS HAPPENING NOW! Join us on zoom!

Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below: Location: Online. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

All attempts to update my diary today have been foiled by (Kit) Marlowe, our new agent of chaos.

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement. Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇 #NHST #HIVstory #Archives www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

New job @unistrathclyde.bsky.social starts today! I'll be researching the history of activism around AIDS denial in the UK, Australia & transnational spaces (online, conferences, protests etc). You can read more about my project here: wellcome.org/research-fun...

Join us and @sexhistorian.bsky.social on 10 Sept to explore women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS care and activism in Scotland Book your ticket now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-his...

I'm excited for next week's Sexual Health: Past, Present & Future workshop. I'll be speaking on health, consent, & agency, through Gillick competence in 1980s teenage magazines (because I'm cool) 🤓😎 Intrigued, but can't attend? Read my chapter on the topic: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK593...

✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor. Deadline for applications 27 June 2025 Further details available at sshm.org/notices/ #histmed #skystorians

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

After months of us both going hither and thither to a variety of archives looking for material on fuel poverty, this week I'm having the best time workshopping a co-authored article for Carbon Bodies with @rebwright.bsky.social

Having an excellent time in @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this week. Loads of fascinating stuff on fuel poverty activism, including incredibly polite letters to the TUC addressed 'Dear Sir and brother' asking for them to help with a campaign to abolish standing charges on electricity.

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Excited to be heading to the Modern Records Centre archive for a few days, but worried it'll take me 12 hours to get to Coventry like last time I attempted this journey... 😶

Digging through 1970s issues of Community Care magazine for social workers' responses to fuel poverty, and I'm coming across so much interesting stuff on Meals-on-Wheels. Please tell me someone excellent has written a history of Meals-on-Wheels I can read? #HistMed #HistFood

Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

Extremely excited to be at #HEXConference today and looking forward to the next couple of days!

Interested in the Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social but wonder who we are? We have a new Meet the Team page! Have a look! sshm.org/portfolio/me...

As the UK’s first gay helpline and Scotland's first gay charity, Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a key source of support to LGBT+ people across Scotland and the UK. Find out more about the organisation and their archive via their website: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

I'm just a historian, in an unfamiliar archive, begging CalmView to just please, for the love of Hecate, show me the damn hierarchy!

Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

I wrote this three years ago and it’s still just as relevant now. hagenilda.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/a...

How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health? Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group 🗃️

'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' #Skystorians 1/2

Hello new followers!

Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼 There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project. ⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰ The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A Happy New Year! And some cheeky promo for the workshop — Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future — that @claireplmartin.bsky.social and I are organising for 2-3 July. Please share widely! ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: Valentine's Day 💋 #histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM

Historian of welfare? Speak Danish and English? This would be such an excellent project and team to be part of! You'll have no complaints...

4/4. In Chap 15 @sexhistorian.bsky.social interrogates the concept of experiential expertise in terms of safe sex practices among women who have sex with women: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📢 Hot off Press New Book Alert 📢. 1/2: With @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social we are exited to share our new co-edited book that demands a re-think of histories of welfare in modern Britain. Fully OA. Links to all chapters to follow & our Chap 1 Intro 👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#skystorians once again appealing for anyone with a successful AHRC Catalyst award who would be willing to share their proposals - or just parts of their proposals with me. (also super interested in rejected proposals but I know people are even more sensitive about sharing those!)

Hello hello to new followers - thread below explains who and what I am

Enjoying this silly archival advent? Have thoughts about the history of hygiene/cleanliness/heat? 🧼🔥🛀 Apply for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project or tell someone great you know to apply! The Project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The PhD: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hello new followers 👋 I'm a historian of health, childhood & sexuality with expertise in public health, welfare, education, & activism. #HistMed I'm often found chatting about kids, HIV & #LGBTQ stuff. Here's a thread of things I research/write about 👇

I promised a few pals I'd provide a heating/gas/electricity #ArchiveAdvent calendar - I'm a day late starting so today you get two! First up, Dishwash Electric with some classic horror tropes & what I'm reading as a queer romance plot www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #HistSci #HSTM

Still dancing to yesterday's 'electric risotto' - but yes, it's burnt to the pan because I left it to 'simmer away all by itself' as instructed by the Cook Electric advert.

I promised a few pals I'd provide a heating/gas/electricity #ArchiveAdvent calendar - I'm a day late starting so today you get two! First up, Dishwash Electric with some classic horror tropes & what I'm reading as a queer romance plot www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #HistSci #HSTM

We are now advertising a funded PhD connected to our Wellcome Trust project "Carbon Bodies" at Northumbria University. Will be good for those interested in the intersection of energy/health or wanting to explore histories of hygiene. Deadline is the 24th January. tinyurl.com/b9h9adfc

We are looking for someone superb to join us as the PhD on 'Carbon Bodies' project. The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The PhD: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Questions? Email us & then watch this silly coal advert as a reward! www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #JobKlaxon #HistMed

The book I co-edited with @mariacannon.bsky.social, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z, is out OPEN ACCESS today! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho... Our fantastic contributors cover topics from spiritual maturity in the C16th to C20th disability activism #skystorians 🗃️

Hi new followers 👋 I'm a health historian with expertise in childhood, sexuality, emotions, public health & activism, but what does that mean? Currently, I'm researching the history of heating & health in the North East on the 'Carbon Bodies' project. #HistMed #HistSex #HSTM #HistChild

There's a funded PhD studentship going on the 'Carbon Bodies' project & we need someone excellent to apply! Interested in the history of hygiene & cleanliness? 🧼⛲🛀🚿🧽 Are you excellent? #JobAlert #HSTM #HistMed The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Questions about the studentship? Email @rebwright.bsky.social or me! #PhD #JobKlaxon

There's a funded PhD studentship going on the 'Carbon Bodies' project & we need someone excellent to apply! Interested in the history of hygiene & cleanliness? 🧼⛲🛀🚿🧽 Are you excellent? #JobAlert #HSTM #HistMed The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...