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Jamie Banks

@milkwknives.bsky.social
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Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social | "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals

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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you have a bit of time on your hands, why not have a read of my blog post about the potted history of alcohol sponsorship in British professional sport (mostly football, but there's some other sports in there too, I promise!)
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Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Next up in our series of project blogs, Jamie (@milkwknives.bsky.social) explores the history of alcohol sponsorship in British sport. You can read about it below: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/adverti... Whilst you’re there, check out our digital map too!: kickingthehabit.uk/digital-map/
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Advertising, Angling, and Alcohol-Free: a short history of alcohol sponsorship in British sport. - Kicking The Habit
In contrast to tobacco, the genesis of alcohol sponsorship in British sport stemmed from market forces rather than legislative necessity. Against a backdrop
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you're interested in learning about the history of tobacco sponsorship in British sport, you're in luck! @d-oneill.bsky.social has written all about it in a great blog (linked below). Stay tuned for mine & @fabiolacreed.bsky.social upcoming blogs about alcohol and gambling sponsorship.
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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Good to see a very early review for the US edition of Outcast from Kirkus. Will be out with @graywolfpress.bsky.social in July! I like a "philosophically charged journey". www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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OUTCAST | Kirkus Reviews
A philosophically charged journey through the little-known world of leprosy and its victims.
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Delighted that our project website is now live! You can find out more about the project, and look at our digital map of public submissions of "addictive sponsorship" branded memorabilia. Please circulate widely / consider making a submission (link is below)!
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below: Location: Online. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM
This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Congrats Faby. This looks amazing!
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Do consider submitting an abstract to the workshop I'm helping to organise below, if you're interested! You've got just under two weeks left!
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Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Delighted that the CfP for the first @kthabitproject.bsky.social workshop is now live! Please do circulate freely, and consider submitting an abstract if of interest. Also more than happy to answer any queries you might have about the workshop, etc.
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Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Here's the first blog for our new project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. It explores the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries' sponsorship of sport in Britain. Like @fabiolacreed.bsky.social, I'm so happy to be working with such an amazing team!
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Providing keen insight into how local narratives about absinthe shaped what quickly became a global reputation, Studer provides a panoptic view of the French Empire’s influence on absinthe’s fall from grace 📚 buff.ly/v73pbBr @drninastuder.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @uksdn.bsky.social
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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below: Location: G40, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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British naval surgeons and tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century |
This presentation explores how the treatment of British seamen aided the development of tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century. The paper will be of interest to staff and students who want to
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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's been a busy month of researching, thinking, learning and writing for @claireljones.bsky.social and I, so much so that we are excited to share TWO new posts on our project website... 🖋️📖 research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-...
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Blogs - Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970 - Research at Kent
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
📢 Job opportunity 📢 Lecturer in History of Medicine & Health University of Manchester #histmed
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Lecturer in History of Medicine and Health (Teaching and Research) at The University of Manchester
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in History of Medicine and Health (Teaching and Research) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job open...
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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
My new book "The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink", published by McGill-Queen's University Press as part of their "Intoxicating Histories" series, is out today! #MedicalHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #ColonialHistory #histbookchat #Absinthe #Historians #historysky
Picture of a woman, Nina Studer, in a black and white top, smiling, holding up a copy of her new book, next to her head.
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
go.bsky.app/Es9BiG4
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Does anyone know if there's a #drinkhistory or history of intoxication/social history of alcohol and drugs starter pack on here?
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know! go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
#Historians of bluesky: I'm looking for scholarship on the history of matrimonial/personal adverts - there's plenty on the late 19C but I'm struggling to find anything looking at the 1830s-40sn
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
CFPs for JOINT workshop, University of Warwick (15th Feb), please send a 250-word abstract + short bio, to jamie.banks@warwick.ac.uk by close of Monday 15 January 2024. Please include an indication of whether you require further support with travel costs/ additional accommodation.
JOINT is an early career drugs history network, formed in 2022 through the generous support of a networking grant from the Wellcome Trust and Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM). Created to provide a forum for early career scholars (broadly defined) to network and share their research, JOINT is delighted to announce the first of two workshops exploring the demarcation of drugs into the binary categories of ‘uppers’ and ‘downers.’

In this first workshop, hosted by the University of Warwick, we invite papers (from any discipline) which problematise and/or complicate any aspect of this demarcation with respect to ‘downers.’ Whilst conventionally associated with substances such as opiates, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines, this umbrella term has also included alcohol, cannabis, and its synthetic derivatives, as well as novel substances such as GHB. We also encourage participants to think about the double-meaning of the word ‘downers’
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