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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is terrible! Solidarity with Rosa Gomez ✊

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Chingford & Woodford Green Community Independents @cwgcommunity.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We spent the weekend in South Chingford and Woodford Green listening to residents' priorities for our area. With less than 90 days until the local elections, join us and help us shape our community’s future! Sign up for all CWG Community Independents updates via the link in our bio.

A group of local residents out doorknocking and leafletting for Chingford and Woodford Green Community Independents.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Breaking my unintentional vow of silence on here to share this news. Getting back into the swing of campaigning!

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

📢New article from me, Niyah Campbell, @kentishscribbler.bsky.social & @sarahvmarks.bsky.social📢 'The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c.1800–2020' is OA with History of the Human Sciences doi.org/10.1177/0952... #HistPsych #HistSTM #BlackHistory

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Care in Custody: From police matrons to forensics | Royal College of Nursing

An online talk on the history of women in the police service and the role of nursing in forensics.

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Join us at #RCN25 Congress for the Sign Painting Studio with artist Peter Liversidge. Create your own placard, some of which will feature in 'The Art of Nursing' exhibition in late June. Materials are provided, and you can take your placard home. Exhibition Hall, Monday – Wednesday, 10 am – 4 pm.

A person holds a sign reading "Hear every voice"

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

On the way home from RCN Congress after a busy day signpainting with Peter Liversidge and @rcnlibraries.bsky.social. So many fantastic placards for our #ArtofNursing exhibition! The sign studio opens again tomorrow and Wed 🪧

A woman in white overalls and cap standing in front of a display of cardboard signs with black painted text: “trust is everything”

A group of people learning to paint placards around the artist in white overalls and cap

Placards leaning against the wall and drying on the floor. They are painted in black capitals in cardboard including: “nursing is the future” “I blink with you” and “byddwch garedig”

Nurse painting a placard on cardboard in black capitals reading “protect mental health nursing”

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Unequal: the history of health and society - Exhibition launched! The exhibition is free and open to all at the Royal College of GPs, 30 Euston Square (next to Euston Station). You can also see a (slightly different) version of the exhibition online here: www.rcgp.org.uk/about/museum...

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Exhibition: Unequal – Health and Society

Not everyone receives the care they need, even under a universal healthcare system. This exhibition explores the history of health inequalities in the UK.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How did I not know Betsi Cadwaladr was buried in Abney Park until today? #HistNursing

Photograph of a woman in a yellow dress standing next to a gravestone in a wooded cemetery

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Well, that was tempting fate. Since I posted this they have eaten all the runner beans! 😼

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I have grown stuff! (mostly tomatoes) This is a rare achievement and I am now counting the days until they die or the cats eat them 🌱

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The mystery of supermarket substitutions. I order mushrooms. They send me… cheese and garlic bread??

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ On #TransDayOfVisibility — and every day — we celebrate trans people and reaffirm the fight for a world where they can live freely, without discrimination or hate.

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fairhomeswf.bsky.social @fairhomeswf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In 2002, buying in Waltham Forest cost 6x the average salary - by 2018, it jumped to 14x. House prices have now hit £525K, while the council pledged 35% of new homes would be affordable. So why are so many still out of reach?

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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The UK Government committed to tackling child poverty, and right now it is rising. At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty. 2/3

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Did anyone vote for this? @meadwaj.bsky.social tears apart Rachel Reeves' #Budget2025

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

YouGov poll asking if I believe in vampires and wondering if that’s linked to the #SpringStatement

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

From M’Gonigle and Kirby,‘Poverty and Public Health’, 1936. This features in the exhibition I’m curating on health inequalities. Hospital admissions for malnutrition were on the rise even before today’s welfare cuts.

Children may, and in fact not infrequently do, grow up healthily in spite of a bad material environment. They may avoid clinical illnesses due to infections, though exposed to the infections; they may survive, undamaged, illnesses resulting from the invasion of their tissues by pathogenic microorganisms, but they cannot survive unscathed prolonged deprivations or deficiencies of certain essentials for normal nutrition.

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Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Excellent exhibition, ‘Making the Rounds’ at @rcnlibraries.bsky.social in London.This exhibit explores the experience and stories of workhouse nurses in Norfolk. As artefacts tend to not survive from workhouse infirmaries, artist Connie Flynn used textiles to share these stories #workhouse #histmed

Kidney dish similar to the ones used by workhouse nurses made of felt

White sheets with labels showing the types of cases and patients the workhouse nurses tended to

A district nurse’s medical bag from the 1920s. Workhouse nurses had similar tools and medicines at their disposal

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

1/There’s been a blitzkrieg of stories like this over the past week about trans people. 0.5% of the population. All appearing across the biggest media platforms in the UK. From the BBC to national press. Rolled out by Tufton Street think tanks, based on ‘studies’ written by anti-trans campaigners.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Post a warning: My all time favourite from my local chicken shop in Hackney 10+ years ago (I still don’t understand it)

Paper sign on a fridge full of drinks cans next to a chicken fryer. Sign I’m alternate red and blue text reads: “You Can’t Choose Chicken Pieces for Half Price. But if you decide to choose Then Price will be charged full meal price.”

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This coming Monday in Woodford: a welcome antidote to the awfulness of politics right now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1281232473...

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Only recently discovered Wandsworth Prison Museum exists but it is fascinating. Tiny but fascinating. Here’s the unofficial prison magazine from 1939 www.capcollections.org.uk/business-dir...

Handwritten newspaper style document with coloured drawing in a museum cabinet. Newspaper is called The Tattler

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Seed planting session at the community allotments today, and some tiny daffodils enjoying the sunshine 🌞

Two miniature daffodils in the foreground in a raised bed with blocks of flats behind

Five small seed pots with coloured lolly stick labels

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is tomorrow evening! Still time to book

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

An impactful statement from artist Jolie Goodman who spoke at our third Art of Nursing webinar Art in January. The full recording is available on our website: buff.ly/4i1VzAz Join us for the next webinar at 1.00pm on Thursday 13 March. Book your ticket: buff.ly/3D9ZCLX

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great day talking about nursing and the climate crisis @fulhampalace.bsky.social. The only photo I took was a (lovely) pond, but all the speakers were fantastic. Especially wowed by the idea of zero emission steam from the Museum of Water and Steam which I must now visit!

A small pond in grassland surrounded by hand-pilled stones and logs. Trees and greenhouses in the background

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For #Caturday: a poignant photo by Paul Koudounaris of a beloved cat's tombstone. "'He was only a cat,' but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain." Check out his book, FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, about pet cemeteries and memorials: bookshop.org/p/books/fait...

An old tombstone that reads: DEWEY 1898 - 1910. "He was only a cat" but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain.

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Naomi Salisbury FRSA @doricgirl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Contribute to a self-harm Q&A: Let me know your 'unanswered questions about self-harm' below or in a message if sensitive, by 11th Feb & I'll provide some well researched, non-judgmental, practical answers on Self Injury Awareness Day. #siad2025 #siad #selfharm #selfinjury #mentalhealth #learning

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"much science in many societies is political and always has been"

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

30 years ago today.💔 I don't remember what I was doing, because Richey's disappearance wasn't made public for about 2 weeks. I did memorise his car numberplate in case he passed me on my way to school though. I still remember it.

Cover of Select magazine from May 1995. Photograph of Richey James on red background reading: 'Richey Manic Vanished: The full story. The last interview'.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oh god, reading AI job applications! 🫠 If you really must do it, don’t include the prompt as well as the response 🙃

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Recommending private sector use for the NHS crisis is like recommending more alcohol for a hangover. Sure it offers a slight temporary reprieve - but you find yourself worse off tomorrow. It's time to break the cycle and invest in our NHS. weownit.org.uk/public-owner... @we-own-it.bsky.social

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We need to reinstate our NHS

Our NHS should be in public hands.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My new favourite cartoon (says the woman with a Memento Mori tattoo)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So depressing. And one of the first things to be cut anywhere is often support staff, so then you get another death spiral in income, with fewer people to manage admissions, say, leading to fewer students

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Charlie says take those glasses off! (they ruin nose rubs) #cats

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢 The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇 #HistSTM sshm.org/portfolio/pr...

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Prizes

2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

📢New #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network Event📢 👀 #Geography, #Interdisciplinarity and the #Humanities👀 💥Cheryl McGeachan 💥Hester Parr 💥Ed Kiely 💥Chris Philo 💥Felicity Callard Online, 29 Jan, 3-4:30pm GMT. Free registration 👇 #HistSTM #HistGeog #HistPsych #MedHums #MedicalHumanities

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Geography, Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities

This session presents and discusses ideas relating to the themes of mental (ill-)health geographies, interdisciplinarity and the humanities.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As a historian of the idea of “normal” I think I could probably work with this

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