What a brilliant theme!

Morning coffee in the perfect mug ☕️ Thankyou for everything! @claireljones.bsky.social

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

It's almost time for us to share the final products of our partnership with ERIC, The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity... Watch this space! @claireljones.bsky.social research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-...

We recently sorted through my grandparents’ book collection, which they built up over decades (they were both avid readers!) Finding notes in the front, bookmarks made from old receipts, finger marks on the pages, felt like finding little traces of them

This is a woven basket tray which, for as long as I can remember, has lived under the sink at my parents house. It’s been well-loved and used, often to serve hot soup to poorly children off from school, in bed, or cups of tea to visitors.

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Can anyone recommend some histories of old age and the body, specifically those that look at leakiness and focus on the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries? Aware of stuff on the menopause but want to check I'm not missing something!

Join us!

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

i've seen so many articles on this today, and not a single one so far has pointed out that where "not taking any benefits payments" is concerned, you have no access to public funds on a visa. this has been the case for years. but nobody, from the BBC down, will challenge this or anything else

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....

House move, cough and cold, the state of things…

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

Tell me you’re an academic moving house without telling me you’re an academic moving house (these are just my books 🥲)

I've been quiet on here over the summer (researching, thinking, writing and ofc, taking time off), but am back with my latest blog, which talks about an advert for incontinence 'underpads' I found a few months ago... Read it here 👇 research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-... @claireljones.bsky.social

I've been quiet on here over the summer (researching, thinking, writing and ofc, taking time off), but am back with my latest blog, which talks about an advert for incontinence 'underpads' I found a few months ago... Read it here 👇 research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-... @claireljones.bsky.social

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History- University of Cambridge - Christ's College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE394/c...

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

Any guesses about what on earth this says? Part of a sentence discussing payment for a mattress.

Joe is halfway through his mission now and has been joined along the way by some of his and Dan’s friends. Very moved to see how they are all coming together to remember him, 10 years on. Show some support if you can! www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Exciting update! Last week, @claireljones.bsky.social and I headed to Bristol to film our 'Bladder Health History' series, which aims to challenge taboos surrounding bladder health and facilitate more open conversations. Head to our website to find out more 👇 research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-...

A great day for the ‘Buzzers for Bedwetters’ team! @claireljones.bsky.social After months of planning and collaborating with ERIC The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity and Punchline Media, today we finally made it to Bristol to film our ‘Bladder Health Histories’!

A great day for the ‘Buzzers for Bedwetters’ team! @claireljones.bsky.social After months of planning and collaborating with ERIC The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity and Punchline Media, today we finally made it to Bristol to film our ‘Bladder Health Histories’!

Today my brother’s friend, Joe, starts his marathon mission to run 10 marathons in 10 days in 10 cities. He’s fundraising for CALM and Papyrus. If you can, donate here: www.givewheel.com/fundraising/... Also, listen to his interview on BBC Radio Sheffield here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thinking of everyone affected by 7/7, then and still now. Also wishing the BBC wouldn’t still use the phrase ‘suicide bomber’ in their reporting.

Looking forward to heading over to Dudley this week for #SHSConf2025! I'll be talking about my (ongoing) research into urine incontinence, elderly bodies and healthcare in modern Britain.

Who was Virginia Prince and what role did she have in developing of concepts of gender? Emily Cousens explores the trans feminist intellectual history of the sex/gender distinction. www.historyworkshop....

This looks brilliant!

Obligatory photo of my locker at the archives after that one time I completely forgot where I'd left my stuff as well as what my bag looked like

Sure this would not live up to expectations but I would like nothing better than to curl up in this right now

It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

A view of the past that can help us think differently about incontinence... Pleased to share our contribution to the #BladderandBowel2025 campaign as part of #WorldContinenceWeek www.healthawareness.co.uk/bladder-and-... @claireljones.bsky.social

On our walk earlier, two kids ran up asking if we wanted to buy anything from their curbside shop. They offered us a plant, but we had no cash. They said it was ok, because they were just kids so they didn’t need money. So anyway now I have a small mysterious plant in a water-filled pot to care for!

Sat behind Paolo Nutini at a festival in Nottingham c.2007. I was 13 and I think he was my first, whole-hearted, slightly-obsessive crush...

Anyone know of any histories of ‘mental illness’, ‘insanity’, psychiatry from a family history perspective?

If you’re a post-doc looking to work w/ historical documents on a project exploring how people lived with difference in the past - DM me to chat about this 2.5 yr post. Closing 25.6.25 vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/hrvacancies/...

Rogue question of the day: does anyone happen to know of any references (primary or secondary) to feelings of disgust in relation to medical practice, past and/or present?

Archive searching this morning and came across a publication series titled 'Do Cows Have Neuroses?' from the late 1960s-early 1970s. It's a question I never thought needed to be answered but now I must know either way

📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!

sshm.org/notices/ Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!

Also, in cities like Sheffield, which were built upon the steel industry, the two local universities became some of the largest employers after deindustrialisation (alongside health and social care) and still are, last time I checked!

Does anyone know of any histories which look at if/how admissions to ‘chronic sick’ hospitals in the mid-twentieth century were mediated by race?

‘[Objects] anchor the extraordinary event of the death in the everyday and the ordinary. They offer ways to make the loss tangible, to ourselves and to others.’ bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2023/02/rela...

In this #OpenAccess article, Antara Datta and Jinal Parekh use two critical moments in British immigration to trace how the female dependant became the focus of discriminatory bordering practices and her body an evidentiary source in the immigration system. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

So excited that this project is going to be happening with us in History! Such a great job for someone too 👇