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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 · 4d

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

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

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

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

More tales from the NICU: someone was vaping yesterday

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 13d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 26d

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 · 26d

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)

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 26

Following the decision to abolish NHS England, @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and @hughalderwick.bsky.social analyse the history of changes to NHS management, identify unresolved tensions that underpin them and set out implications for the latest round of reform.

Read more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4mtiZB9

'The decision to abolish NHS England marks the end of a 12-year experiment of trying to run the NHS at much greater arm’s length from politicians – through a statutorily independent body, rather than NHS leadership embedded in the DHSC.' Hugh Alderwick
Agnes Arnold-Forster at the Health Foundation

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

My non-history job allowed me to write some history! (and its policy implications, ofc)

The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · Aug 21

I once set out to walk from my airbnb in a Nashville suburb to a coffee shop 14 minutes away and four (4) separate (very nice, well-meaning) people in their cars stopped to ask me why I was walking and if I was okay.

Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Bicycling in Nashville can be really demoralizing sometimes.

But at least we don't have to do this every day