Please consider emailing your government’s department of foreign affairs to demand the release of activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla Coalition ships.

🇮🇪 Irish friends: it takes two mins to email Tánaiste/Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris at [email protected]

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.

There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

Great piece, Emer!

Such an important piece. Thank you, @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social.

This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...

I have a new article in Modern Italy on mothers, children in 1970s Italian feminist magazine Effe - a lot familiar in their discussions of emotions, expectations and experience of mothering although I especially like their ideas about the radical potential of maternal love

doi.org/10.1017/mit....

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Registration now open for WHS conference.

For the programme and details on how to register see below. ⬇️

The purpose of academic freedom is not to allow faculty to live cushy lives free from criticism or constraint. Its purpose is to allow them to investigate widely and report (or criticize) the results openly, instead of allowing politicians to decide what is true and what is not.

Today is official publication day of @cethompson.bsky.social and my little collection “Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians”. It has 28 essays on names, images, museum and archival practices, teaching, reparations, positionality, citation and more. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Look forward to reading this too! Thanks for the thread, Evan.

This is a disgrace. People have the right to protest against genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

For international cat day, some cats from The Adamson Collection, composed of work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital in Surrey by individuals who were compelled to live there during the midC20th

Brilliant reporting by the galway advertiser. Absolutely perfect www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

I've emailed, Lindsey. I'm so sorry this is happening to you, it's absolutely shocking and I can't imagine the stress you must be under. I hope you get home soon.

Please consider emailing...

[email protected]

...to make someone in the UK govt. listen, and help get my stranded wife back from the USA, and back under the ongoing medical care she needs.

Reposts hugely appreciated too. Thank you. x

Authors, if you feel safely able to, please consider signing this open letter to the Polari Prize

I think there should be more press about this popular medical historian, author @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social & dual USA-UK citizen’s case.
She needs to be in the UK for cancer treatment, yet is not allowed to leave US.

Lindsey, this is awful! I’m so sorry. I hope it gets resolved soon, it’s absolutely terrible.

People need to stop imagining that eugenics is just about Nazis, Hitler and Nazi Germany. Eugenics was born in the UK, and rapidly imported to the US, where both positive and negative eugenics made rapid inroads into law and policy on disability, medicine, marriage, immigration and more.