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Recovery Histories
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Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · Jan 17
Why does a medical model of recovery dominate medical, psychiatric and public discourses of healing after child sexual abuse?
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 2d
Find out what these two Intrepid Ethnographers are up to by joining our Recovery Histories mailing list. Click the nasty code-y link below. After you join, you will get a bureaucratic type message about GDPR which we cannot change BUT we welcome you in advance.....

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Photograph of Baljit and Adeline of the Recovery Histories team
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 8d
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 8d
They also offered advice to therapists, recommending a stance of ‘walking beside’ survivors rather than pathologising them.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 8d
Sophie Olson and Jacky Power shared their own writing and facilitated a discussion, highlighting how creative expression can serve as a tool for self-witnessing in the face of silencing and disbelief.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 8d
Today, we attended a workshop co-delivered by activist, author, and our partner Sophie Olson, together with poet Jacky Power. The workshop formed part of the events organised by A Disorder 4 Everyone.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 9d
We are excited that tomorrow our project about recovering the histories of #CSASurvivors will be discussed at the first History & Practice Special Interest Group of the Association of Child Protection Professionals. FREE EVENT, DO REGISTER & COME ALONG....
LAUNCH EVENT: Special Interest Group - History and Practice | Your History Counts – Why we should preserve the memories of child protection practitioners through co-producing oral history life narrati...
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 13d
Earlier this year, the Recovery Histories Project hosted its first in-person network events at Birkbeck!

Check out our new blog post where you can find out more about the event programmes and key takeaways that are shaping our work moving forward.

👉 Read it here: shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/recover...
Recovery History - Network Events – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
On May 1–2, 2025, the Recovery Histories Project held its first in-person network events at Birkbeck, University of London, bringing together survivors, researchers, academics, and partner organisatio...
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 17d
Fantastic article exploring the complexities of remembering sexual violence during apartheid by Emily Bridger. Based on oral histories conducted with older Black South African women. Open access, y'all.

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(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History*
Abstract. South Africa is a country known for its high rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Historical research demonstrates that such issues are not
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 21d
In turn, this perpetuates the gendered power dynamics that underpin abuses such as ‘cyberflashing’, tech facilitated sexual abuse and sexual harassment.

The book is free to download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Teens, Social Media, and Image Based Abuse
This Open Access book lays out the experiences of image based abuse, conceptual frameworks in the field, and recommendations for policy and changemakers
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 21d
he authors challenge the prevalence of abstinence-based sex education, arguing that these approaches not only fail to prepare young people for the realities of the digital age, but they also stop young people seeking help when things go wrong.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 21d
rounded in nearly 20-years of research, Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlyn Regehr, centre of voices of young people in their new book, Teens, Social Media and Image-Based Abuse.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 27d
📢 We’re live! Excited to announce that the first Recovery Histories newsletter launched last week! 📢

👉 If you are new to our page and our project, why not sign up to our mailing list to get the next issue straight to your inbox: my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=209...
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 28d
Does the expansion of the term ‘mental disorder’ mean greater access to help to people previously denied it? Or does this expansion pathologise ‘normal’ and everyday experiences? Haslam speculates on impacts in the article linked below.

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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 28d
‘Horizontal’ expansion, meaning that concepts extend outwards to include new phenomena and ‘vertical’ expansion, meaning that concepts extend downward to include less ‘extreme’ cases. Does trauma’s ‘concept creep’ dilute its meaning?
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 28d
He argues that the sematic expansion of these harm-related concepts in recent decades means that they now refer to a much broader range of experiences, actions, or people than they did previously. According to Haslam this expansion takes two forms.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 28d
In this influential article Nick Haslam introduces the concept of 'concept creep'. Haslam presents six key concepts in psychology: abuse, bullying, trauma, mental disorder, addiction, and prejudice.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
In case you missed it, CfP #humour and #sexualviolence
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Call for Papers: Humour and Sexual Violence  Proposal for Special Issue of Cultural History – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
Call for Papers: Humour and Sexual Violence Proposal for Special Issue of Cultural History. CFP Published 2 Sep 2025. Due: 17 October 2025. Following their May 2023 workshop on humour and sexual viole...
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
The paper highlights practices such as gardening, through which women cultivated ‘imaginative spaces’ to experience joy and pleasure, while simultaneously distancing themselves from gendered expectations and domestic labour.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
Drawing on cisgender women’s experiences of recovering from depression, they demonstrate how gendered dynamics within couples and families, shaped by neoliberal discourses, influence subjectivity and obstruct processes of ‘recovery’.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
In this amazing paper, Simone Fullagar and Wendy O’Brien conceptualise the notion of ‘social recovery’, distinguishing it from the dominant biomedical framing.
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · 29d
“Women’s recovery experiences reveal the implicit workings of power that shaped their emotional lives and recovery narratives through the negotiation of gender demands that affected their emotional capacity, material wellbeing and were plainly unjust.”
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · Sep 8
In this video from our team, our wonderful anthropologist Adeline Moussion Esteve talks about her PhD research, her work on our new project and why it all matters. #ethnography #VAWG #CSA
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Dr Adeline Moussion Esteve – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · Sep 4
@ruthbeecher.bsky.social's short video explains how she and Dr Victoria Hoyle invited a group of survivor activists, academics and practitioners to come together to discuss why histories of child sexual abuse matter & led ultimately to our project. shra.bbk.ac.uk/member/dr-ru...
Dr Ruth Beecher – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
Dr Ruth Beecher is an historian of medicine, welfare and childhood in Britain, Ireland and the US and is the principal investigator of the Recovery Histories project. Her previous role was as director...
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Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social · Jun 25
I believe that this dimin-
ishes the person, thins out and homogenizes the deeply rich
diversity of human experience (...)' What Really Matters. Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger