Altered State author Matthew Collin on MDMA, 90s myth-making + the legacy of long nights under the lasers

Hope that multiple sessions of MDMA-assisted therapy could help soldiers fight longer by helping them process trauma

In Conversation – Simon Bayliss & Dr Peder Clark, hosted by Senara Wilson – Gwennap Pit, Busveal, Redruth, Sat 9 May 2026 - Artist Simon Bayliss and cultural and social historian Dr Peder Clark will b...

This Handbook will be published in May 2026. The publisher page is here. You can also buy it from the usual online retailers. A podcast introducing the Handbook and featuring some of the chapter au…

Sick jokes - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Sick jokes by Christine Slobogin

"Mums, like most humans, do use drugs"

“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65

Dr Peder Clark '“Sorted”: Leah Betts, ‘ordinariness’ and drugs in 1990s Britain'

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2026, funded by a donation from

In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.

Abstract. This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era’s accelerated deindustrialization.

In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.

Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding

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Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...

The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever changed our understanding of the mind An unlikely c...

Prompted by Michael Lorenzini’s Every Pill I Took (2022), Peder Clark explores the materiality of Ecstasy pills, thinking about the possible meanings behind- and consequences of- their brash …

Advancing knowledge and understanding of the history of pharmacy and medicines.

Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP “Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements” October 23-24, 2025. University of Wisconsin – Madison Building on the foundation of Cannabis: Global Hist...

An audio version of an in depth article on the history of Ritalin, and what the future holds for the drug.

Launched in 1946, Woman’s Hour became one of Britain’s first women-organised radio programmes, predominantly targeting mothers. In 1960, Woman’s Hour transmitted the first mass media broadcast on “...

This book explores the historical ties between pop culture and euphoric bodies from the 1950s to the 1980s, offering new insights.

Momentous shifts in British nightlife were catalysed by the drug ecstasy during the 1990s. This article explores the tension between older attitudes towards women’s drug use and new discourses of f...