Malcolm Russell
@malcolmrussell73.bsky.social
Historian of 20th century Britain / PhD researcher in drug history (from Sept ‘26) / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton University Press)
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‘All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue’: glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain
Abstract. This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era’s accelerated deindustrialization.
doi.org
Delighted to share that my first journal article is now published. Many thanks to everyone who offered feedback and encouragement along the way.
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
Delighted to share that my first journal article is now published. Many thanks to everyone who offered feedback and encouragement along the way.
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue’: glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain
Abstract. This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era’s accelerated deindustrialization.
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Delighted to share that my first journal article is now published. Many thanks to everyone who offered feedback and encouragement along the way.
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
Back searching the Thames at low tide this morning for detritus from London’s past. Found: 16th c stove tile fragment with dragon’s head. #mudlarking #earlymodern
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Back searching the Thames at low tide this morning for detritus from London’s past. Found: 16th c stove tile fragment with dragon’s head. #mudlarking #earlymodern
Opium pipe bowl (late 19th-early 20th c.) I found #mudlarking along the Thames a few years ago. Recently used as the jumping off point for a paper on opium smoking given at the Finds Research Group conference. This was held at @londonmuseum.bsky.social to coincide with its mudlarking exhibition
January 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Opium pipe bowl (late 19th-early 20th c.) I found #mudlarking along the Thames a few years ago. Recently used as the jumping off point for a paper on opium smoking given at the Finds Research Group conference. This was held at @londonmuseum.bsky.social to coincide with its mudlarking exhibition