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hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
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👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory. 'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y

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Stay up-to-date with our research and events by signing up to receive the Recovery Histories monthly newsletter. Just follow the link to add your email address!: www.bbk.ac.uk/interests/se...

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If you are working in UK record-keeping secto and based in the Midlands - do give our Midlands group a follow here: @aramidlands.bsky.social

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I'll be doing two talks (Jan 25th, March 29th) at @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social to accompany their current exhibition: Charlotte Johnson Wahl's paintings of what it was like undergoing early exposure therapy at the Maudsley hospital in 1974. The event is free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-was-i...

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I did the Health Humanities MA at UCL… quite a while ago now! Would recommend checking these courses out #histmed #healthhums

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Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼 There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project. ⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰ The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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New year, new job? Why not come and work with me @rcnlibraries.bsky.social? We are a lovely team, great location and £34K is none too shabby for a museum assistant #MuseumJobs careers.rcn.org.uk/Vacancies/Va...

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Another massive problem for London’s unis. I’m a postdoc at a London uni and it’s just not financially realistic for me to live in the city. If those teaching the courses can’t afford to live near the uni, how on earth are we going to keep attracting students??

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If you fancy a little festive history reading, here’s a @bharchives.bsky.social blog looking at Christmas charity in early NHS hospitals #histmed www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...

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For all your Christmas scrolling needs! I’ve been writing about Christmas charity in hospitals for the Barts Health Archives blog. Complete with brilliant photographs of Santa Claus visiting the wards at Barts.

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Stay #MerryAndBright this Xmas with Watney's stout on the wards! #ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistNursing [SBHG/HP/6/1/29]

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Freddie is ready to ‘help’ with the emails… #CatsatWork

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New History of the Human Sciences article from @kentishscribbler.bsky.social & Jeanette Copperman The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women #histpsych #mentalhealth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Had some lovely feedback this week about our @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded project conference in October, which reminds me to share the brilliant contributions to our hospital charity-themed takeover of The Polyphony blog: thepolyphony.org/tag/hospital...

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This is an important and illuminating article by Sarah Chaney and Jeanette Copperman. It examines the politics of recovery, exploring survivor-led approaches to self injury

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📣 🚀 Applications are now open for our funded Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships! This new scheme will support professionals & researchers from health, voluntary & community sectors to develop novel #medhums research. Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 tinyurl.com/practice-res...

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Ooooh, great photo! Christmas celebrations were seen as an important comfort to patients and staff, and hospital charity funds were regularly used to payed for decorations etc. (Guess who’s been looking through the charity accounts!)

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Last round of peer review comments I got included a truly brutal screed of fury (which included historical inaccuracies!). It was an angry rant with v little actual feedback or engagement with my paper. Honestly made me feel like just not bothering to share research again. Pointless and upsetting.

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Join the Centre for History of Public Health online or in person for their seminar, with Kalman Rotstein: 'The Punjab Vaccination Campaign and the Mulkowal Tragedy, 1902-1906' 📅Thursday 21st November ⏰12.45-14.00 UK time 📍LSHTM room G24 and online Free and open to all, no need to register #histmed

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Very interesting blog from David Jones on The Polyphony about the history of BPD, and how this history helps us to understand how the diagnosis operates in the present #HistPsych #Psychosocial thepolyphony.org/2024/11/04/p...

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Helpful. #AmWritingwithaCat

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Better get rid of Bloomsbury in that case. Absolute nonsense of a place.

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Hello! I was late to the BlueSky party. Lovely to find so many researchers over here! I spend a lot of time researching health charity, including mental health charity and NHS charity. Here’s a blog from my latest research, from the Border Crossings project thepolyphony.org/2024/10/28/c...

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