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Important thread. As Sara Ahmed states “When you expose a problem you pose a problem”.

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How did fascist movements in 1930s Britain appeal to women and even former suffragettes? Martin Durham, in a rediscovered talk given to History Workshop in 1983, and Daniel Jones (@narson.bsky.social) on the continued resonance of these insights in today's world. www.historyworkshop....

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So many people assume they’d do the right thing in this situation but never do. From bullying people who speak out to failing to investigate serious claims quickly and effectively, while hiding their proactive complicity. It’s shocking how easily people are punished for raising any concerns.

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“In no universe can we compare an FDA-approved set of medications or medical protocol to cocaine or fentanyl,” MacIvor Thompson said. “They’re using this rhetorical strategy to link these things, but they are not linked.”

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Hi historians! For a project on eating practices and agri-food industry lobbying in Switzerland (20th-21st centuries), I’m looking for funded projects on similar themes. I’m hoping to build a network and to organize workshops. If you know of relevant projects, please share them with me!

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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In real good company including @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social and @jonathansjones.bsky.social with the latest issue of the Kentucky Register all about medicine and healthcare in the Bluegrass State. Check out my piece on KY women and birth control: doi.org/10.1353/khs....

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Late to the party but I am so excited for this, congrats, Sarah!

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I don’t think I can contemplate an academy where we are all just trying to survive another day of endless teaching. I don’t think I could bear an environment where the constant competition to keep our jobs causes us to lose sight of each other’s humanity. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

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Job klaxons! We are recruiting three postdoc Fellows to work on the global histories of #HIV and #AIDS #activism in #India; #South #Africa; #Turkey and the Middle East. Thanks to generous funding from the UKRI. You may find the links in the comments below.

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My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.

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"If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them... While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month. In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth www.historyworkshop....

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Wonderful to have @npapadogian.bsky.social speak to us today @cshhh.bsky.social about his important oral history research with trans activists who were involved in HIV/AIDS activism in Greece. #histmed

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I was interviewed for this ... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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A petition in protest at the redundancies at Cardiff University chng.it/fzGGD2rDWX

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This sounds amazing!!! 😻😻😻

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From the German equivalent of The Onion: "Historian excited to be able to experience first hand how it all started back then." This is about the German conservatives collaborating with the far-right AfD; any similarity to other countries is purely coincidental www.der-postillon.com/2024/09/aufs...

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Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question. “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.

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Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam

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"The history of the IFPA youth group is a timely reminder of the powerful impact that young activists can have and of the importance of activism which offers alternative possibilities." Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) uncovers the stories of young sexual health activists in 1980s Ireland 🗃️

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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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I wrote this short companion piece to my recent @historywo.bsky.social article where I reflect a little bit on doing the history of youth sexuality and activism in 80s Ireland. Thanks History Workshop for the invitation and @beckierutherford.bsky.social for your amazing editorial support!

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Stella Browne (1880-1955) of the Abortion Law Reform Association: unmarried, gave evidence to 1937 government committee on abortion: 'I say this as a matter of public duty - the knowledge in my own person that, if abortion were necessarily fatal or injurious, I should not now be here before you'.

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📣Attention SSHM Members 📣 SSHM Mid Career Writing Retreat (funded by Wellcome) 7-10 April 2025 University of Strathclyde's Ross Priory Submit your online application before the deadline of 28 January All details and link to application 👇 #histmed

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Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals! Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'? @annastenning.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...

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Academia in a time of genocide: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Irish friends: do you know anyone who volunteered as a counsellor with CURA, the Catholic crisis pregnancy agency, in the 1980s/1990s? I'm hoping to interview people as part of my project on anti-abortion activism so please get in touch if you know someone who might be interested in speaking to me.

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Thanks to Sandra McAvoy for this wonderful review of my book in the English Historical Review. 🥰

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I just wanna know what Grossman and others like him imagine the AHA is going to do with this supposed legitimacy? Write a strongly worded editorial or letter about the importance of history which politicians and legislatures will laugh at as they dismantle our profession?

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The resolution carries overwhelmingly and the opponents will have to carry the shame of speaking against it forever.

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Fighting for academic freedom means saying it's bad for universities to be bombed: if that is 'divisive,' the issue is that people should not support universities being bombed. I believe education is a right, and this is just...really disheartening from people who are ostensibly educators.

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This is actually an incredible case of saying the quiet part out loud on behalf of so many academics over the last fifteen months: they simply care more about their jobs than genocide.

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