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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Nov 1

A review of nostalgia in @washingtonpost.com !

“Her book is not a forbidding tissue of citations but a humane document populated by memorable characters”… “excellent and engrossing”…”research is meticulous and her prose is inviting” ❤️

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

Review | Nostalgia was once a disease. Now we’re all infected.

New books examine the emotion’s long history and the politically diverse movements it has served

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 10h

…He had two weeks off when I had my first son, and it was awful. I came home from the hospital after a week, so we had barely 5 days together at home. While this time around has been hell in a whole other way, this is a great new bit of policy that more people should know about.

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 10h

…I already have great mat leave from my place of work, but my partner was only going to get two weeks paternity. But this new leave means that he can have paid leave from work throughout our son’s stay in hospital (and then his two weeks added back on at the end)…

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 10h

I had a terrifying placental abruption at 32 weeks and had to have a c-section under general anaesthetic. Almost a month later, my baby boy, Casper, is still in the NICU but one silver lining of this whole ordeal is that the gvt introduced new statutory NICU leave in April of this year…

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 7d

No of course not, it just was particularly jarring given the environment we’re in

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! It’s very nice to hear about people with grown-up NICU graduates.

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 7d

More tales from the NICU: someone was vaping yesterday

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 10d

New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!!

My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD

Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 16d

Society has reached such a state of disrepair that people are watching TikToks with no headphones in the NICU

As if having a very premature baby isn’t stressful enough

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 25d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 25d

I'm speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Monday 13th October with novelist Georgi Gospodinov and psychologist Catherine Loveday!

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/nosta...

Nostalgia: A Dangerous Emotion? | Cheltenham Festivals

Once diagnosed as a deadly illness, nostalgia now shapes everything from personal memory to political movements. Novelist Georgi Gospodinov, historian Agne

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 29d

And! We bought a house today! Completed on this 1970s gem in South London

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 29d

Off to do some filming for German TV about nostalgia!

The German cover might - among stiff competition - be my favourite

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 5

I love these illustrations from a 1980s pamphlet on pre-term labour so much

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s pouring with rain, but I just ate a ripe fig off a tree in south London

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 3

KNOW YOUR CONIFERS!

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not just any seaweed, BROWN seaweed

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Living temporarily with my mum while we’re between houses, and these are the kind of gems she comes home with 🌿

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'll let you know what a bunch of policy folk think!

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

Why the history of public consultation matters for contemporary health policy

Contemporary policy debates construct public involvement in England’s National Health Service as “new,” or as a practice dating back only as far as th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hello world! EAHMH is now officially on Bluesky. Follow us to receive updates about all things #histmed (but also #histsci, #STS) etc.

For those of you joining us in Berlin for our biannual conference, please help us spread the word by using #eahmh25!

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James Munro @jamesfm55.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is a really excellent, well-argued piece from @jenniferthf.bsky.social on the unresolved "dualities" which plague English health policy - and how far we (still) are from any settled view on how the NHS should be run.

www.health.org.uk/features-and...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Aug 26

There's a LOT of tragedy going on here, but can't help feeling the purest horror for poor Mrs Thackeray

🤰 Giving birth in 1818, full stop
🩺 Your Dr is widely blamed for the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth weeks earlier
💀 Your Dr then SHOOTS HIMSELF while you are in labour

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sounds like Mrs Thackeray delivered safely, though, at least?

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is absolutely wild

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Aug 26

Once had an academic say a very similar thing to me about post-docs on their project... (although their point was less about humanity, and more about how you could get more out of two desperate people, than one well-remunerated one)