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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster

@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
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Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To give another example: the Marie Curie Doctoral Networks. There is really nothing that matches this scheme (certainly not in the UK really) and the application effort is VAST. It’s widely expected people apply 2-3 times before they get funded. What a collosal waste of people’s time.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exactly
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What a thrill and surprise to hear myself quoted this morning on thought for the day www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Thought for the Day - Dr Rachel Mann - BBC Sounds
12 AUG 26
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m going to be on Who Do You Think Yoi Are? on Tuesday, revealing to Amy Dowden that her great-grandmother died of the same cancer she herself has had www.radiotimes.com/tv/documenta...
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Strictly Come Dancing favourite Amy Dowden reveals why doing Who Do You Think You Are? left her in tears
Amy Dowden discovers a moving family link to her own cancer journey in Who Do You Think You Are?.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🙃🙃🙃
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Pitt is almost unbearable. Saccharine + on-the-nose - which major issue will they cover in the next five minutes. Why is it so popular?
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My two year old calls a cappuccino a “cup of chino”
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I was on TV! Chatting about Egyptomania in the 1920s www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
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The Race for Ancient Egypt in Colour
In 1922, global mania erupts over Tutankhamun’s tomb as Egypt struggles for independence
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Baby’s first trip to Oxford
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caitjan.bsky.social @caitjan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In 2019, I launched the Healthy Scepticism project w/ support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social and including fave colleagues @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social. Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, it's a book! Preorder (w/ discount) here. waterstones.com/book/healthy...
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m also on UK Radio! BBC R4’s AntiSocial, c.40m in talking about, you guessed it, nostalgia www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, The Nostalgia Divide
Nostalgia and the cringe factor. Adam Fleming explores why 2016 is big online.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m on German TV! The good bit (with me in it) starts at 16:00 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
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Twist - Retro-Träume: Mehr als nur Nostalgie? - Komplette Sendung | ARTE
War früher wirklich alles besser? "Twist" im Retro-Rausch: Die Schweds aus Österreich leben wie in den Goldenen 20ern. Der französische Musiker Mattyeux liebt Sound und Look der 80er, VHS-Ästhetik ink...
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
GB news are calling the Fabian Society a cabal that controls the City of London hahhahahhahahah
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Busses beginning with P are always the most choatic …I’m looking at you P5
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Americans have long sought to settle the Arctic www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... @historytoday.com
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The Cold, Cold War
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A dangerous emotion? Heavy on the question mark this evening on The World Today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Agnes’ book sits high in a rich, recent library of ‘nostalgia’ texts — often poised on that etymological fulcrum of the ‘longing for’ & the ‘pain of’ *home*, which seems so apposite to our injured times
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
appropriately reflective episode of BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Perennial questions of innovation & nostalgia. With Margaret Heffernan @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @cjfaraday.bsky.social @nickfthilton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Filming for German TV feat. Sylvie the dog
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I wrote about Paddington and nostalgia for the Big Issue!
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I’ve escaped from my newborn and am en route to broadcasting house!* *shout out to the team of three making this possible: parents looking after toddler and partner parenting said newborn at home
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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker… @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just before Casper was born, I was filmed for the German TV programme Kulturzeit. I was chatting about nostalgia but I was heavily pregnant and it’s overdubbed in German so cant guarantee I’m saying anything sensible www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
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Nostalgie - ein gefährliches Gefühl?
Die britische Historikerin Agnes Arnold-Forster hat die Geschichte der Nostalgie erforscht - und dabei ihre Abgründe aufgedeckt.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
To celebrate my return to the land of the living (or something) I’ll be chatting live on Radio 4 this Friday evening about INNOVATION www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tune in!
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m sure no one has noticed my absence from here, but I’ve been mostly gone from work + life recovering physically + emotionally from the v traumatic birth of my second son Casper in September. We spent most of the autumn in hospital but he’s now doing fantastically. Just busy being a baby.
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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · 05/01/2026
JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My partner took shared parental leave in 2024 and HR at my then place of work (a university) said that we were the first in the organisation to do so! (which meant she didn’t really know how it worked…)
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Feat. in @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s article about ‘90s nostalgia! www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...
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Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster
Find out more about Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Awkward but also an interesting example of what happens/will happen when Reform get into power and have to reckon with the realities of (local) government
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My baby was finally discharged from the NICU after six weeks, we spent just over a week at home before he was readmitted with bronchiolitis, collapsed lung & suspected sepsis. He’s in the PICU and is really poorly & all I can say is that RSV is a horror and if you’re pregnant please get vaccinated
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It’s our fifth week in the NICU and I’ve had to invest in noise cancelling earphones for the sake of my sanity Anyway here’s a tiny baby
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I had a terrifying placental abruption at 32 weeks and had to have a c-section under general anaesthetic. Almost a month later, my baby boy, Casper, is still in the NICU but one silver lining of this whole ordeal is that the gvt introduced new statutory NICU leave in April of this year…
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
More tales from the NICU: someone was vaping yesterday
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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!! My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD
Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Society has reached such a state of disrepair that people are watching TikToks with no headphones in the NICU As if having a very premature baby isn’t stressful enough
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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I'm speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Monday 13th October with novelist Georgi Gospodinov and psychologist Catherine Loveday! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/nosta...
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Nostalgia: A Dangerous Emotion? | Cheltenham Festivals
Once diagnosed as a deadly illness, nostalgia now shapes everything from personal memory to political movements. Novelist Georgi Gospodinov, historian Agne
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
And! We bought a house today! Completed on this 1970s gem in South London
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Off to do some filming for German TV about nostalgia! The German cover might - among stiff competition - be my favourite
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I love these illustrations from a 1980s pamphlet on pre-term labour so much
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It’s pouring with rain, but I just ate a ripe fig off a tree in south London
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Living temporarily with my mum while we’re between houses, and these are the kind of gems she comes home with 🌿
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We're reading @jennycrane.bsky.social's fantastic article on the history of public consultation and health policy in our policy team's analysis/reading group at the Health Foundation this week! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Why the history of public consultation matters for contemporary health policy
Contemporary policy debates construct public involvement in England’s National Health Service as “new,” or as a practice dating back only as far as th…
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hello world! EAHMH is now officially on Bluesky. Follow us to receive updates about all things #histmed (but also #histsci, #STS) etc. For those of you joining us in Berlin for our biannual conference, please help us spread the word by using #eahmh25!
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James Munro @jamesfm55.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is a really excellent, well-argued piece from @jenniferthf.bsky.social on the unresolved "dualities" which plague English health policy - and how far we (still) are from any settled view on how the NHS should be run. www.health.org.uk/features-and...
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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
There's a LOT of tragedy going on here, but can't help feeling the purest horror for poor Mrs Thackeray 🤰 Giving birth in 1818, full stop 🩺 Your Dr is widely blamed for the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth weeks earlier 💀 Your Dr then SHOOTS HIMSELF while you are in labour
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