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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 10h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

And when that happens "we're spending far too much on asylums" (source: the 60s)

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

2010s retro

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

Falling vaccination rates coming back into the news, is it?

The shameless plugs will cease when the MMR vaccination rate is back over 95%.

bit.ly/2RUPYUN

Book cover for Gareth Millward, Vaccinating Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017). The image is of a syringe and a 1950s vial of vaccine.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, at that stage of their careers, it looked like Phil would go on to be the more successful thirst trap.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

My most charitable reading of this is that some people think "anxiety" is like "flu" (people colloquially use the term for an actual, very serious condition when they mean something milder, blunting the effect of the diagnosis).

But that's not it. They're just arseholes.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

"Welfare system should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice... that’s why we will stop benefits for anxiety" Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary for State, work and pensions. Daily Mail.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

I think you'd enjoy the Swedish-Danish film Häxan (if you haven't already seen it). 1920s silent horror, probably one that historians of (imaginations of) witchcraft and medicine should see.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!

Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 3d

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

Free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

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…

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 3d

labour are like a referee who booked someone in the first five minutes for a 50/50 challenge and the game is now spiralling out of control and they’ve sent off over four hundred players

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 4d

That's the joke.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 4d

VAR favouring Arsenal again..

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 4d

Fun fact - this is where the term "central heating" originates.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 4d

It's not a war until you've faked some photos of soldiers, Piers

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

It’s funny because it’s true

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team
You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works

crystal @cim.bsky.social
your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

As an Englishman, I must strongly disagree. Cheese on crackers is a delight, but the key to a biscuit is it needs to be dunkable in tea.

Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

@decafjedi.com @bvigeant.bsky.social OK, lads. Biscuit shelf at my local supermarket (a small Danish one).

A selection of biscuits (cookies) at Føtex.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky team having a moment, and the only thing to say to them is: "maaaaaaaaaaate".

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

Obvs, this is from my late C20 bias (and UK English), but my impression is that the im- emphasises changing nation state, and staying long-term in a country. Migrant is, like you say, more temporary - but I think more intranational? Might just be my own reading, though.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 5d

“With police accompanying them”

Yep.

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 5d

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5d

this is great, I just hope the new showrunner doesn't let her down

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5d

🔺BREAKING: Sarah Mullally announced as new Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London will replace Justin Welby and be the first woman to take the role in its 1,400-year history

Sarah Mullally announced as new Archbishop of Canterbury

www.thetimes.com

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

... as Third Eye Blind once sang.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5d

What do innocent Jewish people in Britain have to do with genocidal war-crimes in Palestine? Who is making this connection?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 5d

Manchester attack latest: Pause Gaza protests out of respect says home secretary after two killed at synagogue

Manchester synagogue latest: Two men killed in attack named

www.independent.co.uk

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Heather Wardle @shwardle.bsky.social · 5d

Gambling Survey for Great Britain 2024 report now live! Findings
include associations between in-play betting & gambling harms; socio-economic disparities btw weekly gamblers. Data in UK Data archive soon! www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/statistics-a...

@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social

Investigating the relationship between reasons for gambling and different gambling activities  

www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk

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