First piece out by @busedp.bsky.social, about growing up 'gifted' - well done Buse! She's still recruiting also for interviewees, link in the blog - www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/revi...

Honoured to have another really interesting and engaged review of my latest book journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... And the discount code below still works - I'd love to talk more about this research if anyone wants a seminar, teaching visit, etc!

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni “Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

My co-edited book, Posters, protests, and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain, is £18 in the MUP January sale! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163462/ I would LOVE to see it used in teaching and am always happy to chat about its wonderful chapters!

My book is a bargain right now, especially as printed in colour! MUP sale runs to end of the month ("discount will apply automatically at checkout, unless based in North America. North American customers, please enter discount code JAN40 at checkout"): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168511/

If you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!

Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

🌺New in Geo🌺 'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Is your child texting about Buckinghamshire Archives? Here are the signs to look out for: BRB: Buckinghamshire records, blimey LOL: Lots of ledgers SMH: Some medieval holdings WTF: Where's that folder? ROFL: Researching our former lacemaking IDC: Is Duke corrupt? BTW: Big trees, Wendover

If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch... ~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts) ~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience') ~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement) sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Today, 3PM!

On Weds 22 Oct, there's an exciting interdisciplinary conversation about 'Planetary Health' at UCL. I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine. All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must: tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby

New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live: mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-... Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . . bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙 ☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social

Lovely to chat all things public engagement and impact this afternoon ☺️ Looking forward to a fab set of talks tomorrow 🙌 @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Coming soon💨 How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡 Pre-order now!

Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖

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]

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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....