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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth

@sexhistorian.bsky.social

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Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial. They/them

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hi new followers 👋

I'm a health historian with expertise in childhood, sexuality, emotions, public health & activism, but what does that mean?

Currently, I'm researching the history of heating & health in the North East on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.

#HistMed #HistSex #HSTM #HistChild

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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 4h

Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below:
Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM

This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 13d

All attempts to update my diary today have been foiled by (Kit) Marlowe, our new agent of chaos.

A black kitten with yellow eyes is sat on a weekly planner on a wooden desk in the sunshine.

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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · Aug 29

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement.

Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇

#NHST #HIVstory #Archives

www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Sep 1

New job @unistrathclyde.bsky.social starts today!

I'll be researching the history of activism around AIDS denial in the UK, Australia & transnational spaces (online, conferences, protests etc).

You can read more about my project here:

wellcome.org/research-fun...

A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present - Grants Awarded | Wellcome

A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · Jul 25

Join us and @sexhistorian.bsky.social on 10 Sept to explore women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS care and activism in Scotland

Book your ticket now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-his...

Promotional image. Text reads: women's histories of HIV/AIDS in Scotland 10 September 2025 6pm

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 27

Actually if you just want general (sexual) health history / Birmingham vibes, you could read my article on 1990s queer women's conceptualisation of health/activism, its really fun. Many puns!

‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's Pride month after all! 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm excited for next week's Sexual Health: Past, Present & Future workshop.

I'll be speaking on health, consent, & agency, through Gillick competence in 1980s teenage magazines (because I'm cool) 🤓😎

Intrigued, but can't attend? Read my chapter on the topic:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK593...

Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social · Mar 7

Registration is open for our workshop, #SexualHealth: Past Present and Future, at #UniversityofBirmingham. Join us in person or online. For those joining in person, delicious lunch will be provided. Registration is free but essential.

forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ

#histsex #histmed #medhums #HIV

A workshop flyer, including a QR code for registration.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · May 30

✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor.
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians

Front cover of the journal Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University Press. Purple cover with white text.

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · Jun 23

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 12

After months of us both going hither and thither to a variety of archives looking for material on fuel poverty, this week I'm having the best time workshopping a co-authored article for Carbon Bodies with @rebwright.bsky.social

Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 2

Having an excellent time in @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this week. Loads of fascinating stuff on fuel poverty activism, including incredibly polite letters to the TUC addressed 'Dear Sir and brother' asking for them to help with a campaign to abolish standing charges on electricity.

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Apr 2

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 1

Excited to be heading to the Modern Records Centre archive for a few days, but worried it'll take me 12 hours to get to Coventry like last time I attempted this journey... 😶

Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 16

Digging through 1970s issues of Community Care magazine for social workers' responses to fuel poverty, and I'm coming across so much interesting stuff on Meals-on-Wheels. Please tell me someone excellent has written a history of Meals-on-Wheels I can read? #HistMed #HistFood

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · Apr 4

Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

PLANNING PERSPECTIVES

'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980
Sally Watson
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
ABSTRACT
Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten
environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy,
abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering,
reductions in traffic management budgets
following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and
practices.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Mar 10

Extremely excited to be at #HEXConference today and looking forward to the next couple of days!

hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10

@hexhistory.bsky.social Conference first keynote, by Dr Ville Kivimäki, on the concept and use of experience in history studies. (Talk title too long to quote here 😆)

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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · Mar 5

Interested in the Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social but wonder who we are? We have a new Meet the Team page! Have a look! sshm.org/portfolio/me...

Meet the Team

Visit the post for more.

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · Feb 27

As the UK’s first gay helpline and Scotland's first gay charity, Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a key source of support to LGBT+ people across Scotland and the UK.

Find out more about the organisation and their archive via their website: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

University of Edinburgh Exhibitions | Lothian Gay and Lesbian…

As the UK’s first gay helpline and Scotland's first gay charity, Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a key source of support to LGBT+ people across…

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Feb 11

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh

Recruiting now: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ah this is such excellent news about an excellent book from an excellent person.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · Feb 11

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Feb 7

Really calling this archival search system Calm is just trolling at this point.

Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Feb 7

I'm just a historian, in an unfamiliar archive, begging CalmView to just please, for the love of Hecate, show me the damn hierarchy!

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