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...

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈 For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see" Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th... ⏰4PM, 4/10 📍Peel Lecture Theatre

Please consider reaching out to one of my wonderful PGR students, Buse, if you have ever been labelled 'gifted', and are happy to discuss. . .

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

We're reading @jennycrane.bsky.social's fantastic article on the history of public consultation and health policy in our policy team's analysis/reading group at the Health Foundation this week! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

September, ahh! Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website. Useful book for reading lists on: - fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality' - childhood writing methodologies - 'agency' as concept - voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools

ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... 7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing. @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!

Deadline extended: Sponsored sessions @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies 👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/ghwrg-sponso... #GHWRG

Have you attended the @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social ENRGHI conference, over its 31 year history? If so can you please get in touch to share any interesting messages or memories for attendees this year at University of Bristol? We have a first half-day of workshops and are making posters 🎨

Almost but not quite too late to apply to present at the annual PGR/ECR conference of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing group. It's at Bristol this year, 7-8th October. Special strand on 'blue bodies' but any research linked to health geographies is so welcome 🌿

This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!

@millieqed.bsky.social have you read 'the production of presence: the internet and first-person illness narratives' by Nehal El-Hadi. wonderful and very relevant to your interests - eprints.gla.ac.uk/173458/7/173...

Fascinating conversation between Cat Papastavrou Brooks (one of my amazing PGR students!) and Dr Chloe Asker - love Chloe's vision for this podcast to interview ECR health geographers about 4 objects shaping their journeys. open.spotify.com/episode/6e8G...

upcoming deadline (15th August) to apply to speak at this friendly conference for PGRs and ECRs interested in 'health geography', broadly defined. 7-8th October, University of Bristol.

I'm excited to announce the launch of a podcast series with @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social and @rgsibg.bsky.social: 'Emerging Research Journeys'! We speak to @sabrinalyli.bsky.social about 5 objects that have been influential to her ECR journey. Listen here: ghwrg.wordpress.com/emerging-res...

A major new resource by a wonderful team that will be essential for anyone teaching, and researching, South Asian histories of Britain. A huge congratulations and thank you for making this wonderful, and much needed, site a reality! #skystorians

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... great article by Grace Redhead and Rebecca Lynch. Argues that, in 2000s in particular, 'postcode lottery' rhetoric was 'rationalising the inequalities present between places as the fair outcomes of irresponsible local health behaviours'.

I've added an object stories workshop to my qualitative methods course and I'm really happy about this - if you want to recommend your own work on objects, please let me know! This draws on a forthcoming 'teaching store', myself, Merle Patchett, Cait Robinson, and David Richards are working on . . .

Chloe Asker has started this fab podcast about research journeys in and around health geography - 5 interviews up so far with guests talking about the 5 papers, books, and objects that shaped their careers ✨ ghwrg.wordpress.com/emerging-res... @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social proud to support this.

We are delighted to invite papers for the 22nd ENRGHI Conference, a two-day event organised by & for postgraduate & ECRs Showcasing the breadth of health & wellbeing research, with a focus on Blue Bodies - human, animal & ecological connections to blue spaces 👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/enrghi-2025-...

ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/embodiment-and-water

🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social: ‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny! Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Health geography conference for PGRs and ECRs, University of Bristol, 7-8th October www.rgs.org/events/upcom... special strand on 'blue bodies' 💙

Lovely historians, please do share this opportunity with MA students interested in contemporary British history :) @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @conteurohistory.bsky.social

#History #SkyStorians New review! Andrew Burchell on Jennifer Crane's "Gifted Children" in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 (OUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]

Page 99 test . . . 📚 page99test.blogspot.com/2025/07/jenn...

Now I'm back off holiday, some more plugging. I've read your posts. You love complaining. On the internet. How will someone like me write the history of that in 10 years' time? journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/7...

This is such a thoughtful review of my new book, I'm truly honoured by the engagement thank you @andrewburchell.bsky.social 🙏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What an incredible collection 🤩 💐perfect inspiring Friday read research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Well done Buse! ✨

Listen! Jennifer Crane talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the amazing "'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality Since 1945" newbooksnetwork.com/gifted-child...

Thank you again @drdaveobrien.bsky.social!🙏

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book! You can find our conversation here: newbooksnetwork.com/teaching-gen... and, as I believe the kids say, 'wherever you get your podcasts'.

10 minutes!

Maps rocks records we love to see it 🗺️

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/...

Really excited about our upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the 'Legacies of Section 28' in contemporary history, education and activism, which will be held at UCL on 6th and 7th June. For more details and to register for this free event: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Well done Buse! ✨ Do contact this fantastic PGR if you grew up in England and Wales and were ever labelled "gifted", formally informally briefly for long time hated it loved it ambivalent she's interested 🙏

Next week please do come for a chat if interested! @shcy.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social

This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...

shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise... Interview about my new book - with thanks for great questions from Hannah Stamler and Layla Koch 📕🙏 @shcy.bsky.social

Powerful keynote by Amrit Wilson on South Asian women’s activism and reproductive politics in the 1970s and 1980s at ‘Paths to justice: reproductive politics, activism & global solidarity’ workshop organised by @carolina-topini.bsky.social and @maudannebracke.bsky.social.

Lovely to give this talk. Attendees seemed most interested in content taking us up to 1990s and 2000s, looking at National Records of Achievement and languages of 'aspiration', and at New Labour and broadenings of 'giftedness'. So to flag that's there in Chapter 5 - global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We started the week by attending a great talk by @jennycrane.bsky.social about her new book on gifted children. So child-centred, totally mesmerising and we can't wait to read it. It's at OUP and it's open access - hurray! #histchild #histeduc

Rewrote the paper to be less about agency and networks and more about the anxieties and material drivers of writing. Though will I make it past Didcot parkway to even give the paper we'll see 😂🚂

Coming up on Monday: @jennycrane.bsky.social talking about her exciting new book 'Writing "gifted children" in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945". 19/05/25, 11am, Sophia Sheppard Room Magdalen College, Oxford and online. Join us for what will definitely be a fascinating talk!

Really looking forward to this!

On BBC radio 4 programme 'Antisocial' today, contextualising 'gentle parenting' as a trend or moment 🤩🐣