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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This funded PhD on the history of unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948 would also be a cool project for someone with a #HistSci or #STS background. When we say we're interested in folks from 'cognate disciplines' we do mean it! Interested but not sure? Drop me an email. #AcademicSky

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No but really, apply for this ace funded PhD studentship. #AcademicSky #HistMed

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come & do a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith at Strathclyde! We are looking for a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948. #histmed #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a really great funded PhD at Strathclyde on 'unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948' - if you have any questions about applying feel free to get in touch!

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Excited to be in Oxford this week to attend The Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School #DHOxSS.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got a hankering for health history? We are looking for a brilliant historian to join us at Strathclyde on our *FUNDED* PhD studentship researching post-1948 unorthodox health activism in Britain. Design a project & apply by 30 October 2026! #AcademicSky #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Finished your MA thesis and wondering what to do next? Why not apply for a history of health PhD at Strathclyde?

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are looking for a fantastic person to join us at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship looking at the history of unorthodox health activism in the UK after 1948! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #AcademicSky #HistMed

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The cool thing about this PhD (beyond the funding) is you'll get to design your own project but also be part of a small team. It's associated with my project on the history of activism around AIDS denial wellcome.org/research-fun... & in September 2027 a postdoc will also join the project! #HistMed

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A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present - Grants Awarded | Wellcome

A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Modern British Studies Association is looking for volunteers to join its steering committee. We're keen to appoint a representative for independent scholars, for early career researchers, & co-editors for our blog. More details below; expressions of interest by 7 Sept. modbritstud.org.uk/join/

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The deadline for our funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain is tomorrow! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The deadline for our funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain is tomorrow! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The deadline for this is the 26th at 5pm BST!

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There's just under 10 days left to apply for this funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed #PhDFunding Strathclyde is a lovely place to work and Glasgow is a seriously great city! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Making the final preparations for our one day conference on coal communities, health and welfare! ⛏️ 75 delegates booked in but we could take a couple more! Contact us if you fancy joining this great line up of speakers from academia, heritage organisations, community and campaign groups on 18 June

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.

Conference programme:

Panel 1: Disasters, safety and commemoration

Oaks Colliery Disaster, 1866
Paul Darlow, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Paul Hardman, former NUM National Executive Officer

The Safety Men: the Colliery Deputies union in the British Coal Industry
Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University (Emeritus)

Welcomed to Wrexham
Sarah Castagnetti, The National Archives

The 1959 Auchengeich Disaster: class, community and commemoration in Scotland’s coalfields
Professor Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow

Chair: Dr Jörg Arnold, Universität Augsburg

Panel 2: Health

The Violent Realities and Multiple Temporalities of a Miner’s Life
Liv Robinson, Northumbria University

‘A wonderful difference to the home life’: pithead baths, pitwomen, and disability in twentieth-century British coalmining communities
Lucy Jameson, Durham University

Pneumoconiosis, Environment, and the Politics of Coal Miners' Health in Twentieth Century Britain
Dr Andrew Seaton, University of Manchester

A Special Case? Miners’ Health, Wage Relativities and the Fall of Heath’s Government
Robert Rayner, University of Birmingham

Chair: Professor Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick

Panel 3: Welfare

“Feeding on the job?” Pit canteens in 1940s Britain
Dr Ariane Mak, Université Paris Cité & IUF

The Warmth of Home: Concessionary Fuel and Domestic Energy in British Coalfield Communities, 1945-1995
Dr Kathy Davies, Northumbria University

Class, Culture and Democracy: the Miners Libraries of South Wales
John Pateman, University of Leicester

Deindustrialisation and the recreational provision of the nationalised British coalmining industry (1950s-1984)
Dr Marion Henry, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Chair: Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton

Panel 4: Legacies

Now The Dust Has Settled
James O. Davies, Historic England

'The Big K: The Pit that shaped a community' Its legacy, a decade after closure.
Judi Alston, One to One Development Trust

Union Poorhouse to Union Leader - Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain 1922-1929.
Kathryn Stainburn, Castleford Civic Society

The Afterlife of Coal in Barnsley: Youth, Community, and Intergenerational Legacies
Dr Kat Simpson, The University of Huddersfield

Chair: Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton

Showcase of exhibitions, displays and posters:

On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994
Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton

Coal: a record of an industry
Gary Winter, Historic England

Poster of Mrs Sheila Truman
Daniella Law, Historic England

Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Exploring the Coal Collections at Glamorgan Archives
Rhian Diggins, Glamorgan Archives

When Coal was Clean: Soap and Smoke in Nineteenth Century Britain
Oliver Marshall

Mining Disasters in the Village of Worsbrough
Maureen Gennard, Peter Fairham and David Bullock, Worsbrough Library Heritage Group

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There's still two weeks left to get applications in for this funded health history PhD!

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Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dream team of @carorusterholz.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social & Naomi Samake-Bäckert starting day two at #MBS26 with their panel on 'Race and sexual reproductive health in post-war Britain'

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Could someone at #MBS26 know someone great who wants to do a funded PhD with me on unorthodox health activism in Britain?

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I am looking for someone fab to join me at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism. If you are that person, or know someone who is, there's a month left to apply! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

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Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We still have some spaces left for Oral History Training in Stornoway! The workshop will cover everything needed to confidently plan and deliver an oral history project. Book your space: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oral-histo...

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Oral History Training

Join us for an oral history training opportunity.

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Julia Bishop @drjuliabish.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Only a week left to register for the Children's History Society @histchild.bsky.social conference on Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth. Register by 1 June to join us at the University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 1-3 July!

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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Extended call for applications: Decentring the Medical Humanities Early Career Researcher Workshop | University of Stirling | 29–30 October 2026 Full details: lnkd.in/eJywGZQ3

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm so pleased to see that this chapter has been published. It's in a wonderful open access collection, Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity which emerged from the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My university is hiring a senior lecturer in history (FT and open ended contract). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO169/s...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy to share the new SI of History of Education(55:3) “Senses, Emotions and Experiences in #histed” From the 2023 @histedsocuk.bsky.social conference in Sheffield, OA articles explore how education feels through bodies, memory, belonging & resistance. Guest-ed by me 😊 doi.org/10.1080/0046...

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Senses, Emotions and Experiences in the History of Education

Published in History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2026)

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📙 My book has been longlisted for the BSHS (British Society for the History of Science) Pickstone Prize! I'd also like to thank Dr Harriet Palfreyman and Dr Beth Parkes for their kind book reviews in both: 📘 Technology and Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journa...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 22/04/2026

To mark Lesbian Visibility Week here is a selection of articles from our queer history archive 🌈🗃️ First up is @sexhistorian.bsky.social discussing the slippery history of the dental dam and lesbian health activism.

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The Slippery History of the Dental Dam

As an object, the dental dam awkwardly straddles the history of AIDS activism and queer sexuality, acting as an assertion that sex doesn’t require the presence of a penis to be real sex, while acknowl...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My PhD student Peter Wood wrote a brilliant dissertation on postwar homelessness policy that massively changed my understanding of the issues. He'll be speaking about it with other historians of homelessness at @rshc.bsky.social 22 May. Do sign up! homelessnessinpostwarbritain.eventbrite.co.uk

Homelessness in Postwar Britain:
Do historians have anything useful to say?
2.00pm Friday 22 May
Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
Speakers include
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Matt
Downie (CEO, Crisis), Adam Page (Lincoln)
Matt and Jess Turtle (Museum of
Homelessness), Peter Wood (Birkbeck)
Homelessness is a pressing social
issue in Britain today. What can
historians contribute? How can
they do that? Does it matter?
Join us for what should be a wideranging roundtable on the history
of postwar homelessness in Britain.
Book here homelessnessinpostwarbritain.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is a wonderful resource for teaching and also really fun to browse as a general reader - would highly recommend especially to those (historians and not) who are newer to this material! It has never been easier to include queer & trans perspectives in your teaching of modern British history!

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UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

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