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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · 20d

to borrow a line from steve albini, "some of your friends are this fucked"

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 29

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding

www.theguardian.com

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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · Aug 29

@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song

#eahmh25

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode HD

YouTube video by themosttogain

www.youtube.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Aug 27

also in "X.Tee.C" published by Klasse Wrecks klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/merch/kfax19...

KFAX19 - X.TEE.C from Klasse Wrecks

klassewrecks.bandcamp.com

Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Aug 27

perhaps best documented by Ted Polhemus' photos, which i used for an article for HWO www.historyworkshop.org.uk/music-sound/...

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Aug 27

there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 27

My favourite childhood outfit: ‘I was an innocent Muslim girl – and a walking endorsement for ecstasy’

At 14, on a family road trip to Europe, I mixed traditional shalwar kameez and trendy T-shirts. Unfortunately, I didn’t really understand what was on my shirt ...

www.theguardian.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Aug 20

Lucy Robinson has written a fair bit on it too www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Jul 17

I can’t in good faith defend ‘Human Traffic’ as a piece of cinema, but it did make culturally visible an entire lifestyle. John Simms: “To me, it’s like a time capsule: it perfectly captures the end of the 90s. That’s what it was like for millions of people every single weekend.”

Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · Jul 17

Human Traffic review – one-crazy-night 90s clubbing comedy provides euphoric rush of nostalgia

This loved-up ensemble piece is cheerfully apolitical, pro-drugs and pro-hedonism – and features a very funny film debut from Danny Dyer

www.theguardian.com

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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · Jun 19

Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

Who Will Own the ‘God Molecule’?

Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

nymag.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Jun 26

late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...

Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social · Jun 7

Some thoughts on ketamine
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

How Britain fell into the K-hole

Silicon Valley’s favourite drug is also the UK’s.

www.newstatesman.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Jun 23

part of this excellent edited collection
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body Since World War II

This book explores the historical ties between pop culture and euphoric bodies from the 1950s to the 1980s, offering new insights.

link.springer.com

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Jun 23

one of my oral history participants sent this meme to me

"The Power of E... From This... To This"

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Jun 23

new chapter from me on the folk legend around Ecstasy and football-related violence (or "hooliganism", if you prefer)

rdcu.be/esUdJ

The “love thugs”: Ecstasy, Homosociality, and the Decline of Football-Related Violence in 1990s England

rdcu.be

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 13

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’

Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ed Kiely · Short Cuts: University Finances

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · May 27

very apposite that this is getting re-issued simultaneously with @mikejay.bsky.social's book about Thomas Beddoes and the discovery of laughing gas... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · May 21

for a brief history of this: thepolyphony.org/2024/06/10/e...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Apr 21

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

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Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · Apr 26

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

🖊️ Andrew Seaton: The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

The shame of Britain’s hidden homeless

I grew up without a stable home. The thousands of families living like that today deserve better from a Labour government.

www.newstatesman.com

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Psychedelic Imaginaries," a special issue of SAQ edited by Ramzi Fawaz, collates fresh and theoretical perspectives on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance.
View the TOC: buff.ly/sYpPsmt
Buy this issue: buff.ly/QnCxi44

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Lucas Richert @lucrichert.bsky.social · Apr 16

PhD Fellowship -- "The relationship between pharmaceuticals and society – including medical cannabis and psychedelics – has attracted sustained attention..."

⭐May 26 2025, review of initial apps
⭐June 9 2025, international candidates
⭐June 30 2025, domestic candidates

aihp.org/announcement...

Announcement - PhD Studentship on the History of Pharmacy, Psychoactive Substances, and Pharmaceuticals at UW-Madison - American Institute of the History of Pharmacy

Advancing knowledge and understanding of the history of pharmacy and medicines.

aihp.org

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Goldsmiths Law @goldsmithslaw.bsky.social · Apr 9

@alexdymock.bsky.social has guest curated an exhibition for the Museum of Sex in NYC drawing on her research. The exhibition draws on hidden histories to illustrate how our 21st century understanding of sex is shaped by the "altered states" brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances.

PinkLabel.TV @pinklabeltv.bsky.social · Apr 8

In NY? The Museum of Sex exhibit "Higher Love: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality" features a clip of Annie Sprinkle's "In Search of the Ultimate Sex Experience" from Rites of Passion (Candida Royalle, 1987). @anniesprinkle.bsky.social

Info: www.museumofsex.com/exhibitions/...

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Apr 10

do i know anyone going to the Wellcome library in the next week or two that wouldn't mind photographing a couple of pages of a book for me?

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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · Mar 27

proofs are in

Proof page of chapter 'The "love thugs": Ecstasy, Homosociality, and the Decline of Football-Related Violence in 1990s England'

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Lucas Richert @lucrichert.bsky.social · Mar 18

Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP
“Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements”

Deadline for Proposals: 20 April 2025
Online & In Person Symposium: 23 & 24 October 2025

Learn more at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#history #histmed #cannabis #policy #marijuana #health

Cannabis GH CfP.docx

Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP “Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements” October 23-24, 2025. University of Wisconsin – Madison Building on the foundation of Cannabis: Global Hist...

docs.google.com

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Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today I'll be lecturing about the history of this:
theconversation.com/in-depth-out...

In Depth Out Loud podcast: Ritalin – the biography of a mercurial medicine

An audio version of an in depth article on the history of Ritalin, and what the future holds for the drug.

theconversation.com

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