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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 1d

Awwww you’re v sweet! 😊 hope everything is still all good with you. I’ll text you!

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 1d

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We love to see it!

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 1d

A few years ago, I learnt it was made in the 1970s-1980s by a patient in a ‘mental hospital’ (I won’t say who).

A material reminder, today, of the many obvious but also mundane ways that mental ill health, psychiatry, their effects and legacies, endure, shift and shape us.

#WorldMentalHealthDay

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 1d

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.

A hand holds a woven basket tray. In the centre are images of two apples, surrounded by various written apple recipes. It’s been in my house for as long as I can remember.

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 10d

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...

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025

The Future of the Autism Concept Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 4d

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...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 4d

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!

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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 5d

Join us!

Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 5d

Did I mention this?

🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨

For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃

sshm.org/sshm-agm/

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

sshm.org

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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 11d

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

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 12d

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

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 12d

To say that you will ‘have to volunteer’ to be eligible for settled status even if working full time as a doctor or nurse for example is not really volunteering because it would not be voluntary. The govt should call it something else if they want to enforce it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 18d

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....

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 18d

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

a cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words me today below it .

Alt: a cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words me today below it .

media.tenor.com

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 18d

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...

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 23d

‘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.’

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, I think so too!!

Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 26d

I’ve tried to tell my husband that 4 boxes is actually not very much and he won’t believe me!!!

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 26d

Tell me you’re an academic moving house without telling me you’re an academic moving house

(these are just my books 🥲)

4 cardboard boxes on a laminate wood floor. They are each filled with books.

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

Home and Dry? - Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970 - Research at Kent

A few weeks ago, whilst skimming through an edition of The Medical Officer journal from July 1964, I found an intriguing advert for ‘Johnson’s underpads’. This was a new commercial product developed b...

research.kent.ac.uk

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

Home and Dry? - Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970 - Research at Kent

A few weeks ago, whilst skimming through an edition of The Medical Officer journal from July 1964, I found an intriguing advert for ‘Johnson’s underpads’. This was a new commercial product developed b...

research.kent.ac.uk

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · Aug 26

I saw a load on the drive into Sheffield yesterday, hanging from lampposts along the side of the road. Someone has obviously been going up with a ladder and hanging them there. Very scary

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 6

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....

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at University of Cambridge

Discover an exciting academic career path as a College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks, this is helpful!

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks so much!