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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

From Brian Jarman’s inequality maps of the 1970s to David Widgery’s activism it also gives me hope that the fight to tackle inequality is still out there, even if sadly lacking from the current government agenda. This is not the end of the story!

Exhibition display case in front of a wall panel and map image. Display reads: “Health at the Deep End: Breaking the inverse care law”

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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

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 · 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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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

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

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

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

Enjoying revisiting 'Mind Boggling Medical History' for a new project. This was a card game Sally Frampton and I developed where every statement was a current, past or fictional medical theory or practice. Here's an easy one to start with...

Picture of a brain with text on top: "A moving uterus, floating up into the body, causes nervous symptoms in women, such as aches, pains, fainting and paralysis."

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

Hello new followers! Intro time: I’m a historian of medicine and curator, currently working on health inequalities and causes of mental ill-health. Most recent book was “Am I Normal?” (spoiler: the answer is no). profilebooks.com/work/am-i-no...

A black and white cat fast asleep on a spread of books - 8 copies of “Am I Notmal?” translated into different languages

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Are you asleep yet? I have brought you a present.

Close up of a black and white cat on a purple duvet right up near the pillow. He has a large grey stuffed toy mouse in his mouth to present to his human

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

Hello London. It’s 2025 is it? Happy New Year and all that

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You could cure my tree of its festive syphilis

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Looking very festive at Walthamstow dog stadium, ready for our community Christmas Party on Wed. This is the original tote board from 1932, grade II listed along with the iconic neon frontage. #WalthamForest

Top of wooden upright piano in the foreground with two small Christmas trees either side and two festive baubles between. Behind is a window looking out to a large totaliser display board with coloured numbers for the different dogs racing and movable displays for the odds/results.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Really enjoyed the sustainable festive decorations workshop today @rcnlibraries.bsky.social, making Christmas flowers from recycled healthcare packaging #ArtOfNursing @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social

A woman sitting at a table covered in craft materials arranging paper leaves. Workshop leader standing and explaining materials

Workshop leader standing showing three seated participants how to stick paper leaves together. Craft materials between on table with blue cloth.

Close up of hands and brush painting a leaf with red paint. Completed leaves on table in front.

Completed decoration with painted leaves on wire twists arranged around a painted ball.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I hope you and your lovely cat enjoy it! Mine are fond of books too

A black and white cat standing possessively on a blue book on a bed, looking challengingly up at the camera

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I don’t know her name – presumably, like me, she was from Kent. I do know she was a patient in the 1870s, when she drew this sketch of Bethlem as a bird cage. Bethlem’s chaplain described his peek inside her sketchbook in 1899, and later used the artist’s cartoon to illustrate talks.

A sketch of a bird cage with some at the top. Birds with human faces are inside the cage, one smoking a pipe. Two men stand either side, while two more human birds fly above

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Kentish Scribbler was an anonymous contributor to the Bethlem Hospital magazine, ‘Under the Dome’, from its first published volume in 1892 until her death in 1902 (her obituary appeared in the mag). Find it @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social

Front cover of the Quarterly Magazine of Bethlem Royal Hospital for June 1911, with a sketch of the front of the hospital showing its famous dome

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In memory of Kentish Scribbler (18?? - 1902): A short #SkyStorians #HistPsych 🧵

Blurry close up of a 19th century sketch showing a woman with barred lines over her face on a detailed background

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“We found this random panda and cow in the warehouse - that’s festive, right?” Er, ok #Eastbourne, you do you

Festive display on Eastbourne pier with a black and white model calf in the foreground next to a stocking and a huge model panda in the background

Festive panda in front of a Christmas tree. Giant gold painted reindeer in the background.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hello new followers! I’m a historian and curator, currently researching the history of health inequalities. Will post various things #HistMed, #HistNursing and #heritage. Also probably #cats - proud human to Charles and Erik (AKA Professor X and Magneto).

Two black and white cats enjoy an unexpectedly sunny winters day on a balcony. Plants in the foreground, cat tree at the back, London trees and houses visible through the balcony glass.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Some more health inequalities maps

Map of London hand coloured by borough to show percentage of households lacking exclusive use of a basic amenity in 1971. Newham, Hammersmith and Islington all coloured black (40-50%) and most of central London green (30-40%).

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Love coming across statistical maps in the archive! This one is hand coloured to illustrate the potential impact industrial areas along the Thames had on the entirety of North East London in the late 1970s (NB no context or other possible factors included).

Hand coloured map of London with industrial areas along the East Thames and in South and West London coloured blue. Areas are coloured to represent mortality rates from bronchitis and emphysema in 1977 ranging from yellow (35-39 per 100K) in SE and NW London to black (56-60 per 100K) in central East London. Outer East (Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking & Havering) are all dark purple (50-55 per 100K).

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today exploring history of #HealthInequalities in the Politics of Health Group archive at the Wellcome Library. Some interesting 1970s/80s critiques of how the NHS replicated pre-existing inequalities, eg through continued rise of hospital medicine #HistMed

Extract from typed pamphlet outlining the percent of NHS budget spent on hospitals, GP services and community health. Hospitals increased 1951-1976 from 56% to 63% of budget and both GP and community declined to 6.1% each. Text goes on to state: “No occupational health service was established, and health education has
remained a token effort.
The setting up of the NHS coincided with a growth period for hospital medicine and even inside this sector it was the curing rather than the caring specialities that did best. Geriatrics, mental illness and mental handicap were neglected.
In 1976 only 4.5% of NHS expenditure was on the mentally handicapped, 7.5% on the mentally ill and 13.6% on the elderly and handicapped.”

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What happens if I leave my desk for like 20 seconds

A smug little black and white cat on a black office chair in front of a desk. Football pitch through window in background.

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another day, another book edition - this time Simplified Chinese. The publishers worried I was too blunt about masturbation haha. #HistMed #AmINormal

Front cover of white paperback book with pattern of 6 rows of 4 blue dots with one yellow triangle in the middle. Text in Simplified Chinese characters that I can’t read with small “AM I NORMAL?”

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Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Well this has improved things immeasurably on a dark and stormy winter’s day

Photograph of a window looking out over a city (London) at night with fairy lights covering it and a laptop and desk reflected in it.

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