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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today is official publication day of @cethompson.bsky.social and my little collection “Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians”. It has 28 essays on names, images, museum and archival practices, teaching, reparations, positionality, citation and more. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Do Less Harm

Ethical Questions for Health Historians

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · Jul 18

It was a real pleasure to speak to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my new book Growing Up and Going Out, which was published with @manchesterup.bsky.social recently! if you're so inclined, you can listen to us talk about youth culture, cities, and identity below.

Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Jun 29

Listen! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social spoke to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating “Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-a...

Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · Jul 16

A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025!

Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!

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Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation - The Linen Hall, Belfast

Ask the average person on the street what they know about Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ or ‘queer’ history, and they will likely mention the Reverend Ian Paisley’s notorious campaign to ‘Save […]

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎉 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...

‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s

Abstract. The value of producing counterfactual history has been hotly debated, but principally in relation to major public events. Drawing on oral history

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Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · Jul 4

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

As part of my PhD research on space (i.e the built environment/social space) and feminism during the British Women’s Liberation Movement, I’m looking for oral history participants to interview about their experiences. You don’t need to have thought about space and your activism- I’m just interested in your experiences! If you were involved in Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism, or feminist architecture from c.1968-1990 (ish), you can contact me on this platform or email me: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk. Please share with anyone you think may have contacts!

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · Jun 29

My one and only author/editor copy of #dolessharm has arrived! 368 pages of goodness put together by me and @cethompson.bsky.social and 27 other fantastic authors. Thank you @hopkinspress.bsky.social ! Buy yours here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · May 24

Historian here, holder of multiple degrees, previous holder of RA posts, co-author of book, journal articles, numerous essays and book reviews - attributes and skills seemingly unwanted by most employers. Seeks freelance work, writing, editing, researching, etc, in pursuit of paying bills.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · May 22

And two Research Fellow posts at the University of Leeds on the 4-year project ‘The Soviet Union, the WHO and Global Health, 1957-91’, which looks superb.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 at University of Leeds

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · May 20

Yes of course! If you are interested and for more info get in touch with Dr Anne Hanley (email on the flyer).

Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · May 20

Call for artists: We are looking to collaborate with a graphic novelist to create a graphic novel about people's experiences of sexual health in 20th century Britain. Please share widely!

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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · Apr 30

📣Registration is still open for ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’. Check out our exciting programme below! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential.
⏰2-3 July 2025
🏛️University of Birmingham / online
👉Register here by Monday 2nd June: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ

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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · Mar 28

📣Registration is open for our workshop, 'Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future'! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential.
⏰ 2-3 July 2025
🏛️ University of Birmingham / online
👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ
#histmed #histsex #medhums #sexualhealth #SRH #HIV

Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future
A multidisciplinary workshop
Join us in person or online
Room WG17, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Birmingham, 2-3 July 2025
The prevention, treatment and control of sexually transmissible infections, including HIV, has a complex history. It has been the catalyst for significant developments in medicine and public health. But it has also been stigmatised, occupying a grey area between quackery and reputable medicine. Sexual health embodied fears about social disorder, at times seen as a ‘racial poison’ and a threat to colonial, state and military authority. And it was used as an excuse for human experimentation, draconian legislation and the persecution of minoritised and marginalised communities.
Yet event with such a turbulent history, sexual health currently faces one of its greatest crises. Rates of syphilis are at their highest since 1948 and there are more cases of gonorrhoea than at any other point since records began. Barriers to PrEP uptake persist. While RSE has improved, significant shortcomings remain. The impact of mental health, poverty and domestic violence on sexual-health outcomes are not adequately addressed. Services decimated by underfunding are no longer accessible to many who need them. And a lack of culturally competent, inclusive provisions means that many service users feel alienated by the services that are available. All of this is exacerbating deep inequalities in health outcomes and wellbeing.
This multidisciplinary workshop is an opportunity for researchers and health professionals to explore the historical legacies and challenges facing sexual health today and in the future. It is supported by the UKRI project ‘Histories of Sexual Health in Britain’ and is CPD accredited by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians.
Scan the QR code to register.
Registration is free but essential.

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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations, Hannah! Can't wait to read it.

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Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social · Mar 27

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Picture of my book Teenage Intimacies: Young women, sex and social life in England 1950-80

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · Mar 17

📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open!

⏰7-9th July 2025
🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley
🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK

👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a...

🗃️ History Humanities

Account

Visit the post for more.

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Kevin Matthew Jones @kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social · Mar 12

Confirmed publication date for my book - first week of April!

Read for a long durée history of psychological classification, and how the development of concepts of diagnosis was fuelled by their application in asylum health statistics

www.waterstones.com/book/psychol...

Psychological Classification and Diagnosis in Asylum Statistics, 1800 - 1948 by Kevin Matthew Jones | Waterstones

Buy Psychological Classification and Diagnosis in Asylum Statistics, 1800 - 1948 by Kevin Matthew Jones from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on...

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Mar 11

📢📢📢 Pitch call! Are you interested in writing about medicine, gender, or public health? Consider submitting an article to our editorial team. Details on submission guidelines below 👇

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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social

Cover of the edited collection Inheriting the Family.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · Feb 4

Arrived home to the most wonderful surprise. Growing Up and Going Out is here!

Front cover of Growing Up and Going Out.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Jan 21

Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion

An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

www.brighton.ac.uk

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Lucy Cann @lucycann.bsky.social · Jan 20

My article on AIDS voluntary organisations' responses to Black gay men (1980s-2000) is out in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. It traces the contrasting ways in which Terrence Higgins Trust, Blackliners and Naz Project engaged with communities with particular needs. academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...

Issues | Modern British History | Oxford Academic

Publishes research that covers the variety of British history in the twentieth century in all its aspects. It links the many different and specialized branches of historical scholarship with work in p...

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Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social · Dec 19

Only a month to go until the CfP deadline for the 'Legacies of Section 28' conference, which will bring together historians, educators and activists to explore the context and impact of the legislation. Send in your abstracts and please share with your networks! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

Legacies of Section 28 – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · Dec 17

Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...

Home – EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine

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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · Dec 17

Excited to share the call for papers for our multidisciplinary workshop ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’ (also on our website: tinyurl.com/34vbucud). Please share widely!
⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2025
#histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM

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