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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Started reading the wonderful #Katabasis but this line has me thinking it’s a bit too meta for pre-semester reading: “No one ever suggested that perhaps, in addition to doing his research, Professor Grimes should have been fulfilling his duties as a teacher…” 👀👀👀

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Some news! As of August 1 I will be the book reviews editor of Women’s History Review alongside the wonderful Tanya Cheadle ✨ If you are a researcher in women’s history in any region of the world and are interested in reviewing for us, get in touch! ☺️ 📚

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thrilled to be heading to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social today for the Oral History Society conference! I’ve got a lovely morning of fascinating papers before presenting myself on interviewing men about contraception in 1970s Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Naturally, this poster features heavily…

FPA poster c 1969: the pregnant man. A man stands facing the camera with his hand on a seemingly pregnant belly. Caption reads: “would you be more careful if it was you that got pregnant? Anyone married or single can get advice on contraception from the family planning association”

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It was an absolute privilege to be at @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social yesterday for the premier of ‘The Boy from Bute’: a fascinating documentary tracing the unsung story of Sir William Macewen - the grandfather of #neurosurgery 🧠

A photo of the RCPSG exhibition, featuring atlases of the brain.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I really need people to understand that in a *game* the narrative goal is to drive the player forward, alongside entertaining and challenging play. In a *show* the narrative is central. We, as the viewer, don’t have to be compelled to move forward - the character does. #TLOU

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Happy Even in Arcadia day to those who celebrate xo

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Please follow @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social and join us in standing against transphobic, ahistorical and unscientific rulings that do nothing but further the patriarchy and the rise of fascism. Trans rights are human rights🏳️‍⚧️♥️

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

✨Teaching History and/as a Social Science✨ Registration is now open to attend our @uofgsotl.bsky.social event on 20 May. It’s free, with both in-person and hybrid options too! Please come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1345233372...

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History and/as a Social Science: Current approaches and Future Directions

An interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Glasgow

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Reducing womanhood to bio-essentialism is the most anti-feminist, conservative stance: a patriarchal tenet that fundamentally harms all women. Sex has never been binary. Trans and intersex people have always existed. To suggest otherwise is unscientific and ahistorical.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today on “we need rent controls/reform yesterday” I’m fighting with my landlord, whose “flat” (mould pit) I left in 1 Oct 2024. For 6 months he hasn’t paid me my deposit. He sold the property in Jan 2025 for a £10k profit. Today he requested £490.00 for a “sparkle clean” (which is illegal)

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

✨CALL FOR PAPERS✨ History and/as social science 1.5 Day workshop @uofgsotl.bsky.social exploring the teaching of history as/in social sciences AND/OR the experiences of historians teaching in social sciences. Deadline 14 March. Details below (inc alt text). Please share! ✨

History as/in Social Sciences:
Current approaches and future directions
1.5 Day Workshop,
Tuesday 20-Wednesday 21 May 2025
In the context of increasing anxieties around the financial stability of Higher Education in
the United Kingdom, the humanities have fallen victim to budget cuts, department
closures, and institutional restructuring. Within this, history departments have been
particularly targeted, with questions arising across the political sphere around the ‘value
and appeal of a history degree’ (RHS, 2022).
History has always been an inherently interdisciplinary vocation; bending and blending
the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences. Similarly, within UKHE
institutions, the humanities and social sciences are often inextricably intertwined and
analogous. Yet, important differences between the two schools remain.
This workshop seeks to understand the ways in which history is being taught in the social
sciences across UKHE, and the impact this has had on historians and the history
discipline.
We are seeking submission proposals of c. 250 words for a 15-20 minute paper from
interested scholars related to, but not exclusively on, the following themes:

- Teaching history as a social science
- Teaching history in the social sciences
- Teaching the social sciences as a historian
- The impact of history in the social sciences on professional boundaries and identity

We particularly welcome proposals from precariously employed scholars, Graduate
Teaching Assistants, and independent researchers with experience in teaching history.
The deadline for proposals is EOB Friday 14th March 2025. They should be sent to
Kristin.hay@glasgow.ac.uk and felicity.cawley@glasgow.ac.uk with a short biography.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In the 1970s a group called “the innocents” co-opted feminist rhetorics around “choice” in Scotland, placing advertisements in the paper and targeting young pregnant woman, promising them they would talk them through all the options available to them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2495047...

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US anti-abortion group 'planning more protests outside Scottish hospital'

A US anti-abortion group is planning a series of protests outside a hospital in Scotland despite a law banning such demonstrations.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This. Teaching history in this moment is radical, powerful, and subversive.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In October, I wrote about how Trump’s potential presidency could impact reproductive rights in Scotland. Never did I think it would be as explicit as the US veep spouting fear mongering, nonsensical lies about Scotland’s buffer zones. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

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The US has us asking: where's Scotland’s reproductive health agenda?

The hot-button issue in the 2024 Presidential election remains sexual and reproductive health, specifically abortion rights. But what about Scotland?

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The start of the second semester always hits like a freight train, for us and, more importantly, for our students. I teach oral history at honours level and today, just before their dissertation submissions, I was teaching the dreaded ✨ethics✨ Guys. They KILLED IT. One of the best classes ever ♥️

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thrilled to be in attendance at @engenderscot.bsky.social’s AGM this morning. The work they have done in the past year to improve the lives of women and girls in Scotland - in the middle of the cost of living crisis - is nothing short of phenomenal 👏🏼 especially their focus on #Decriminaliseabortion

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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I need #Thetraitors to release a print of the Queen Claudia painting yesterday please and thank you. The only monarch I recognise.

A screenshot of Claudia winkleman as a Queen from The Traitors

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My early work looked at the history of women in medicine in Ireland and medical student culture. More recently I’ve been working on the history of reproductive and sexual health and histories of activism. My next book is a history of anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1972-92.

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hello new followers! For those of you who don’t know me, I work on the history of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. My most recent book ‘Contraception and Modern Ireland’ came out last year and is free to read via this link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... (Cover image by Evelyn Hofer)

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Contraception and Modern Ireland

Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Contraception and Modern Ireland

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Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This may provide useful 'civilian' or general context for future military welfare history studies #milwelfhist

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Classes prepped for 2025, merry Christmas (TAKE A BREAK) emails sent to my dissertation students, out of office on, and I’m away until the new year 🎄 Immediately walked out the door and to the gym, which I’ve avoided for 2 weeks(months) because I’ve been too tired from work, feeling good ♥️

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Nothing says merry Christmas more than decorating the tree with my festive penicillin microbe 👏🏼👏🏼 #histmed #science

A picture of my Christmas tree, at the centre of which is a blue octopus-like creature: a giant microbe replica of penicillin

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Let’s be clear. The current funding crisis within UKHE, alongside the NHS, is a manufactured one which aims to make civic services more unequal. Unis have been run into the ground by poor funding by the government and malicious management. www.scotsman.com/education/co...

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Cost-cutting university hires 'turnaround specialist' to deliver 'substantial change'

Appointment comes as prestigious institution plans to cut jobs to help balance the books

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Thank you so much to the amazing @livideehistory.bsky.social for joining us today for our “Motherhood and Maternity in 20c Britain” event @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🌻 So many interesting reflections on translating research into teaching, and implications of teaching sensitive or difficult histories.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Down at the Ozdust today to see #Wicked 🩷💚 29-year-old me loved it, 9-year-old me can’t believe it’s really a real movie 😭 honestly outstanding from start to finish 💕✨🫧

A picture of me (left, red curly hair), my mum (middle, pink hair) and my sister (right, blonde with a fringe), at the cinema

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

What a true privilege it was to contribute to this fantastic collection. @lauratisdall.bsky.social and @mariacannon.bsky.social were utterly fantastic editors, and the whole collaboration was a ✨dream✨! Read your way through centuries of becoming an adult OPEN ACCESS here 🥰 @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The book I co-edited with @mariacannon.bsky.social, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z, is out OPEN ACCESS today! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho... Our fantastic contributors cover topics from spiritual maturity in the C16th to C20th disability activism #skystorians 🗃️

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Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z - University of London Press

Adulthood has a history. This book explores how concepts of adulthood have changed over time in Britain and the United States from 1350 to the present day through eleven case studies. Ideas of adultho...

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The back garden chronicles continues with FIRST FALL OF SNOW IN THE NEW HOUSE ♥️♥️♥️

An image of my back garden. You can see a light dusting of snow across pavement and grass. You can also see various skull-themed ornaments on the windowsill.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Correction - it ended in 2002, when I was 7. It started when I was 3.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ok so you’re not allowed to revoke my goth girl card after I admit this, but I’m currently watching buffy for the first time and I tell you what, this is some excellent camp stuff 🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#currentlyreading Lady Macbeth by Ana Reid and I’m about 1/3 through. As a Scottish feminist historian with an unhealthy obsession with villainesses, specifically Lady Macbeth - I am finding it super underwhelming?? I feel like a lot of her agency is gone?? Not what I expected at all.

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Job opportunity at the University of Strathclyde: Chancellor’s fellowship/Lythe lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration, funded by the Charlotte Lythe Bequest. Deadline 5 January 2025. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about our dept! strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (667128)

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (667128), Through our Strathclyde Global Talent Programme, we will recruit early career researchers to help us achieve S...

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Looking for recommendations for memoirs that deal with health and gender (and/or sexuality, disability) that have come out in last couple of years. Updating my masters class syllabus (session/assessment on health narratives) so please let me know if you’ve read a good one recently! #histmed #medhums

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Update: I actually did make a mini breakthrough with my introduction!!! Which had been causing me sooo much stress for Literal Weeks!!! Thank u frosty mornings ☃️❄️ #amwriting

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Sunday Times did a follow up yesterday on this article from the Herald on Scottish women travelling to England for abortions, showing the real impact of barriers to accessing terminations from those who matter most: the pregnant person. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2469583...

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‘Only one Scottish doctor is trained in surgical abortion care to legal limit’

There are calls for the Scottish Government to set up a surgical abortion facility and train more doctors in this care after a senior abortion…

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First frost in my new home 🥹 honestly I have been so busy these past few months, this is the first time I’ve started to feel “at home”. Hoping the warm tea and the frosty view will inspire my writing today ✍️ #skyhistorians

A picture of my back garden covered in frost. On my window sill are various skull-themed ornaments.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

today I am mostly: asking for help. Anyone here a humanities academic at the University of Adelaide? I want to probe the possibilities of the 150 anniv. fellowships so if you're willing to talk to me about that I've opened my dms.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

How does one write a book introduction 🫠🫠🫠 asking for a very exhausted friend 😂

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🌻 Motherhood and Maternity in 20th century Britain: Reflections on Research and Research-led teaching 🌻 Join us for a 2hr workshop @uofglasgow.bsky.social exploring research & teaching histories of motherhood and maternal health in the 2020s: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Motherhood and Maternity in 20th century Britain

Reflections on research and research-led teaching.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I recently moved house for the first time in years and so naturally, I had to find some #histmed artwork. My partner is thrilled(!) that I found ArtUK and got myself a copy of my favourite Thomas Rowlandson image “Death as an Apothecary’s assistant” …who doesn’t want quackery in their new home??

Death stirs into a cauldron next to a large smiling, apothecary. In the background woman stares, her face looking pained.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

JOB KLAXON 📢 Would you (or someone excellent you know) like to come do a funded history #PhD with @rebwright.bsky.social and me on the 'Carbon Bodies' project? 🥵🥶🌡️ Info on the project: t.co/IlbeVLiQAm Info on the PhD #JobAlert: t.co/v6zr8fR0RH #HSTM #HistMed #HistSci

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a red and white thermometer is showing a temperature of 68 degrees celsius

Alt: a red and white thermometer is shown with the temperature rising up and down

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

'HIV and AIDS Archives: collections, research and responses' A free online workshop from UK National Archives featuring @georgesevers.bsky.social, Prof. Virginia Berridge and Prof. Matt Cook #histmed 📅 Tues 3 December online 10:00 am - 4:45 pm (UK time) ⬇️ register via the link

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HIV and AIDS Archives: collections, research and responses

A free online symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners who have worked with HIV and AIDS related collections.

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I am: - the one who had a fight with THE Davina McCall during the pandemic because she said university teaching staff were being over-dramatic about covid (in 2020…) and just didn’t wanna teach 🤷🏼‍♀️ - the one who went viral for supporting Glasgow immigration and got death threats as a result x x

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The trains are in chaos, but it's getting close to my favourite time of year - the EHS PhD. Residential Training Course 🤩 If you are a #PhD student or a supervisor with a student working on any aspect of #economic OR #social #history keep an eye out for 2025 👇 🗃 ehs.org.uk/society/stud...

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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

It’s so lovely to see so many #histmed peers join here! I’d already stopped really using The Other Place but miss the community. Time to make a concerted effort here!

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