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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/...

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We currently have two fully-funded PhD studentships open for applications - deadline 5 March. Full details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/n... #histsci #histSTM #histtech

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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...

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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/

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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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Next week, the brilliant Prof. Tracey Loughran is running a series of online sessions for early career people in the medical humanities. I'm speaking on publishing, but there's also webinars on career opportunities and job applications. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/career-opp...

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I wrote this three years ago and it’s still just as relevant now. hagenilda.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/a...

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How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health? Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group 🗃️

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'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' #Skystorians 1/2

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Hello new followers!

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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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A Happy New Year! And some cheeky promo for the workshop — Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future — that @claireplmartin.bsky.social and I are organising for 2-3 July. Please share widely! ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: Valentine's Day 💋 #histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM

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Historian of welfare? Speak Danish and English? This would be such an excellent project and team to be part of! You'll have no complaints...

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📢 Hot off Press New Book Alert 📢. 1/2: With @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social we are exited to share our new co-edited book that demands a re-think of histories of welfare in modern Britain. Fully OA. Links to all chapters to follow & our Chap 1 Intro 👇 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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#skystorians once again appealing for anyone with a successful AHRC Catalyst award who would be willing to share their proposals - or just parts of their proposals with me. (also super interested in rejected proposals but I know people are even more sensitive about sharing those!)

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Hello hello to new followers - thread below explains who and what I am

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Enjoying this silly archival advent? Have thoughts about the history of hygiene/cleanliness/heat? 🧼🔥🛀 Apply for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project or tell someone great you know to apply! The Project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The PhD: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Hello new followers 👋 I'm a historian of health, childhood & sexuality with expertise in public health, welfare, education, & activism. #HistMed I'm often found chatting about kids, HIV & #LGBTQ stuff. Here's a thread of things I research/write about 👇

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I promised a few pals I'd provide a heating/gas/electricity #ArchiveAdvent calendar - I'm a day late starting so today you get two! First up, Dishwash Electric with some classic horror tropes & what I'm reading as a queer romance plot www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #HistSci #HSTM

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Still dancing to yesterday's 'electric risotto' - but yes, it's burnt to the pan because I left it to 'simmer away all by itself' as instructed by the Cook Electric advert.

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I promised a few pals I'd provide a heating/gas/electricity #ArchiveAdvent calendar - I'm a day late starting so today you get two! First up, Dishwash Electric with some classic horror tropes & what I'm reading as a queer romance plot www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #HistSci #HSTM

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We are now advertising a funded PhD connected to our Wellcome Trust project "Carbon Bodies" at Northumbria University. Will be good for those interested in the intersection of energy/health or wanting to explore histories of hygiene. Deadline is the 24th January. tinyurl.com/b9h9adfc

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We are looking for someone superb to join us as the PhD on 'Carbon Bodies' project. The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The PhD: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Questions? Email us & then watch this silly coal advert as a reward! www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #JobKlaxon #HistMed

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The book I co-edited with @mariacannon.bsky.social, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z, is out OPEN ACCESS today! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho... Our fantastic contributors cover topics from spiritual maturity in the C16th to C20th disability activism #skystorians 🗃️

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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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There's a funded PhD studentship going on the 'Carbon Bodies' project & we need someone excellent to apply! Interested in the history of hygiene & cleanliness? 🧼⛲🛀🚿🧽 Are you excellent? #JobAlert #HSTM #HistMed The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Questions about the studentship? Email @rebwright.bsky.social or me! #PhD #JobKlaxon

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There's a funded PhD studentship going on the 'Carbon Bodies' project & we need someone excellent to apply! Interested in the history of hygiene & cleanliness? 🧼⛲🛀🚿🧽 Are you excellent? #JobAlert #HSTM #HistMed The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The thing I didn't say because I was pretending to be sensible is: 'What happens when a historian of sexuality researches the history of heating..?' They find WEIRD British gas ads where they tried to make gas sexy... 😳 Honestly you have to watch it: www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re... #HSTM

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📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

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