Helen Goodman
@helengoodman.bsky.social
Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, and psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health and the body ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ domestic abuse ∣ grief ∣ fibromyalgia
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Looking for history book recommendations? Explore #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner Hannah Durkin's favourite historical non-fiction books on our @bookshop.org page⬇️📚
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Hannah Durkin's favourite historical non-fiction books
Howard French, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World WarThis is a book that fundamentally challenges Eurocentric histories and centres Afric...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Looking for history book recommendations? Explore #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner Hannah Durkin's favourite historical non-fiction books on our @bookshop.org page⬇️📚
uk.bookshop.org/lists/hannah...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/hannah...
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This year’s charity appeal is all about countering the alarming rise of extremist politics – and the misconceptions that fuel them. Read more about how your donations can support our partner charities weave back the fraying threads of communities.
Donate today at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
Donate today at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
The Guardian view on hope: with your help, charities can help to repair the social fabric
Effective challenge to the alarming rise of far-right, anti-migrant politics starts with the grassroots
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December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This year’s charity appeal is all about countering the alarming rise of extremist politics – and the misconceptions that fuel them. Read more about how your donations can support our partner charities weave back the fraying threads of communities.
Donate today at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
Donate today at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
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The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer.
Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
December 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer.
Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
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#WorldAIDSDay is especially important this year.
US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund.
HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV.
www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...
US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund.
HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV.
www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...
Kigali Declaration
www.iasociety.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#WorldAIDSDay is especially important this year.
US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund.
HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV.
www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...
US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund.
HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV.
www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...
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Want to study the history of science and technology? We're inviting applications for "1+3" year (MA+PHD) or 3-year PhD scholarships to study at CHoSTM and
@kingshistory.bsky.social !
Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
@kingshistory.bsky.social !
Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Want to study the history of science and technology? We're inviting applications for "1+3" year (MA+PHD) or 3-year PhD scholarships to study at CHoSTM and
@kingshistory.bsky.social !
Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
@kingshistory.bsky.social !
Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
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York is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)
It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
York is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)
Delighted that Bath Spa has been ranked second most ethical and sustainable university in the UK. Congratulations to all the colleagues and students who worked towards this!
📣 The 2025/6 University League is here!
We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Delighted that Bath Spa has been ranked second most ethical and sustainable university in the UK. Congratulations to all the colleagues and students who worked towards this!
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
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Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol Museum raid
More than 600 artefacts from the museum's British Empire and Commonwealth collection were taken.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament
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December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The Society currently invites applications for 6 funding programmes across a broad range of career stages.
These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2
These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2
Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS
In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Society currently invites applications for 6 funding programmes across a broad range of career stages.
These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2
These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2
Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
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There is no ceasefire only people pretending there’s a ceasefire.
Meet Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Asi, two brothers ages 8 and 10 who crossed Israel's "yellow line" as they gathered firewood for their injured father in Bani Suheila, Khan Younis. Israel deemed these children a "threat" and killed them in a drone attack.
Is this the ceasefire of which we speak?
Is this the ceasefire of which we speak?
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There is no ceasefire only people pretending there’s a ceasefire.
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Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
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These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Starmer's record:
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
We’re challenging Starmer on climate failure
As Keir Starmer heads for Brazil, his government is failing to meet the challenge of global heating – so we’re taking legal action.
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starmer's record:
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies