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David Geiringer

@davidgeiringer.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Britain - interested in histories of sex, religion, and emotions. Senior Lecturer in Public History & Heritage @QMHistory

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Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A fantastic PhD opportunity on the fantastic project 'Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial' lead by @sexhistorian.bsky.social! #sexualhealth #histmed www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...
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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde
Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's one month until View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which means one month till our next #Archives Open Day! Drop in between 11am-3pm on Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections
ARCHIVES OPEN DAY 11am-3pm, WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2026
Drop in to see items from the St Bartholomew’s Hospital collection
used during the Channel 5 series, ‘Our Hospital Through Time’, and
other items from our collections spanning nine centuries.
Come and find out more about the work of Barts Health NHS Trust
Archives!
Where? Trust Archives, Kenton and Lucas Block (Entrance C), St
Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A
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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you're new to our service you should know that we are more than just St Bartholomew’s. We hold over 145 collections, including over 35 hospitals as well as NHS authorities, medical & nursing schools, charities, and much more You can find a list of collections we hold here - tinyurl.com/d9ds6nhv
Photograph of two female records clerks at the London Hospital, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list. c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/41/6]
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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of British History [Temporary Cover]
The Faculty of History wishes to recruit a Temporary Assistant Professor in Modern British History. This is a fixed term 24 month Temporary Assistant Professorship. To cover the academic leave of the
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This week in Scribble Book, #HistParl Director @jhdavey.bsky.social explores the history of the History of Parliament, beginning in the 1930s with Josiah Wedgwood's questionnaire of former MPs who sat between 1885 and 1918. Read and subscribe via the link below!
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The History of the History: Part 1
Q&A
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School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University @qmulsse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📢 Job alert - Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship) A new position has opened at SPIR, one of the UK’s leading centres for the research and teaching of Politics and International Relations, with a uniquely diverse cohort of students. Find out more 👇 qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship) - QMUL Jobs
ID: 8933. Title: Lecturer in Public Policy (Teaching & Scholarship). Application Deadline:
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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026! Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies. For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
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Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions. 📅What's on📅 👤Chat with staff! 📚Book a Library tour! 🕰Enjoy our collections! 🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector! 🎶Explore our current exhibition
Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London* The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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New PhD Student Session
For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.
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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How do we teach public history today? Pleasure to join @julialaite.bsky.social, @ktrcarpenter.bsky.social & Anna Maguire in this roundtable for @historyworkshop.org.uk. Image from @qmul.bsky.social qHeritage project with @museumofthehome.bsky.social academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion
Abstract. ‘What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 243 (9/28/25) - Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! Fi...
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It is twenty years today since my first book Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 was published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I am feeling contemplative. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Queer London
In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big ci...
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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Who are the publics in public history? Report from our recent staff-student project highlights issues around inclusion, marketisation and the politicisation of DEI @engageqm.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Who Are the Publics in Public History? | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Who Are the Publics in Public History? - Volume 1
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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Venturing into historical sociology with this essay on religious and scientific forms of sexual knowledge - conceptualised here as Biofaiths: brill.com/view/journal...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In the panel on the secularisation thesis and religion past 1945. Already very fascinated by a paper on Christian feminists finding they are dismissed in the church and disregarded in the feminist movement. #QMCBS
Picture of a panel at a conference in front of a PowerPoint slide
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@davidgeiringer.bsky.social & @alastairhackney.bsky.social are studying the vicarage as a space of faith, of home making, of ministry, of community. And it’s place in the crisis of the inner city. #QMCBS
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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We're looking for a Public Engagement Manager (1yr fixed term) at Queen Mary to work with amazing Centre for Public Engagement team. Public engagement is deeply rooted at @qmul.ac.uk (we have Platinum Engage Watermark!) and this would be an exciting and varied role qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
The Regents Canal and Queen Mary campus on a cold November morning
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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My first #Delighted post on here! Delighted to receive a copy of @clairelanghamer.bsky.social’s expertly edited collection A Cultural History of Love. Includes my chapter on ‘Love and the Divine’ - featuring Virginia Woolf, the Beatles and Sun Myong Moon - and many other brilliant contributions!
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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As such, we think there are connections to the great special issue of CBH recently edited by @davidgeiringer.bsky.social and @historianhelen.bsky.social — www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...
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Contemporary British History
Beyond the End of History: Rethinking Britain’s Nineties. Volume 38, Issue 4 of Contemporary British History
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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A book with @davidgeiringer.bsky.social ‘The Anglican Vicarage and Urban Crisis: Parish Ministry and the English Inner City in the late Twentieth Century’ looking at at how the Church responded to urban crisis in London and Liverpool in the ‘long 1980s’, from the practice of clergy living there. 2/5
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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It's out! After many years in the making, you can read the @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social special issue on the 1990s here. Huge thanks to @historianhelen.bsky.social & @davidgeiringer.bsky.social for masterminding this special issue and including my work in it. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...
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Contemporary British History
Beyond the End of History: Rethinking Britain’s Nineties. Volume 38, Issue 4 of Contemporary British History
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