Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️
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Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
· Apr 16
fannie lou hamer singing into a microphone with the words if i fall i 'll fall freedom
Alt: fannie lou hamer with microphone, with the words if i fall i'll fall - five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom
media.tenor.com
Taps the sign 👉 Nobody's free till everybody's free.
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Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.
Very sad news. Arts and Humanities are vital.
Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income?
Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?
Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income?
Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
Closing vital programmes is not the answer to resolving the issues faced by Universities- senior management need to work with students and staff to find long term solutions.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.
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If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns
The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If Britain is 'sliding "into economic crisis over £85bn sickness bill', what can UK Arts, Humanities & Social Science research tell us about alternative pathways?
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Swansea University historians have some excellent answers. 1/4
@torstenbell.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
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Check out our most recent research article 'Hospital ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From pre-war planning to the aftermath of Jutland' by Edward J. Wawrzynczak and Jane V.S. Wickenden
This article describes the principal naval hospital ships
doi.org/10.1177/0843...
#maritimehistory
This article describes the principal naval hospital ships
doi.org/10.1177/0843...
#maritimehistory
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November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Check out our most recent research article 'Hospital ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From pre-war planning to the aftermath of Jutland' by Edward J. Wawrzynczak and Jane V.S. Wickenden
This article describes the principal naval hospital ships
doi.org/10.1177/0843...
#maritimehistory
This article describes the principal naval hospital ships
doi.org/10.1177/0843...
#maritimehistory
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We have zero clue where this photograph was taken or who the people are in it. We assume it's a hospital or BMA trip somewhere...
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We have zero clue where this photograph was taken or who the people are in it. We assume it's a hospital or BMA trip somewhere...
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
Can anyone identify these rocks?
@bgs.ac.uk @geolassoc.bsky.social @aegweb.bsky.social
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Has anyone had dealings with the Science Museum picture library recently & have any alternative contact info? I've had zero luck getting a response from them at the general email (it's been months since my first email) & my request is getting urgent :/ www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/contact.asp 🗃️
Contact Us - Science & Society Picture Library
View and buy rights managed stock photos at Science & Society Picture Library.
www.scienceandsociety.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Has anyone had dealings with the Science Museum picture library recently & have any alternative contact info? I've had zero luck getting a response from them at the general email (it's been months since my first email) & my request is getting urgent :/ www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/contact.asp 🗃️
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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
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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
Before numbers, Dutch city buildings were given distinctive stone tablets, or gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, sometimes it was patriotic, but it could be anything.
My current favourite is this (17thc??) leopard on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. I love him.
#GevelsteenSunday
My current favourite is this (17thc??) leopard on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. I love him.
#GevelsteenSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Before numbers, Dutch city buildings were given distinctive stone tablets, or gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, sometimes it was patriotic, but it could be anything.
My current favourite is this (17thc??) leopard on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. I love him.
#GevelsteenSunday
My current favourite is this (17thc??) leopard on Zeedijk, Amsterdam. I love him.
#GevelsteenSunday
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Over a tenth of UK electorate is in the NT membership, but only 1/60th of NT voted.
The 2:1 anti-Restore Trust split among these 50k people happens to reflect general public views of Nigel Farage
The failure of Restore Trust was because Farage mobilises his opponents by mobilising his supporters
The 2:1 anti-Restore Trust split among these 50k people happens to reflect general public views of Nigel Farage
The failure of Restore Trust was because Farage mobilises his opponents by mobilising his supporters
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Over a tenth of UK electorate is in the NT membership, but only 1/60th of NT voted.
The 2:1 anti-Restore Trust split among these 50k people happens to reflect general public views of Nigel Farage
The failure of Restore Trust was because Farage mobilises his opponents by mobilising his supporters
The 2:1 anti-Restore Trust split among these 50k people happens to reflect general public views of Nigel Farage
The failure of Restore Trust was because Farage mobilises his opponents by mobilising his supporters
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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Honestly, how do outlets keep looking at a sector in freefall, at 15,000 jobs lost, at maddening spikes in mental health concerns, and not think 'maybe we should hear from the people who actually care about that sector and what it does, and not just from those who've been wrecking it'?
🚨OUT NOW🚨 Are unis about to collapse? 🎓
Ex-minister Jo Johnson, UUK's Vivienne Stern, Public First's Jess Lister and Russell Group's Sarah Stevens join PolHome's @matildamartin.bsky.social & @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the strain on higher education
Listen: podfollow.com/politicshome...
Ex-minister Jo Johnson, UUK's Vivienne Stern, Public First's Jess Lister and Russell Group's Sarah Stevens join PolHome's @matildamartin.bsky.social & @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the strain on higher education
Listen: podfollow.com/politicshome...
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Honestly, how do outlets keep looking at a sector in freefall, at 15,000 jobs lost, at maddening spikes in mental health concerns, and not think 'maybe we should hear from the people who actually care about that sector and what it does, and not just from those who've been wrecking it'?
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Dartmouth, where I teach, has decided to go all in on AI to provide mental health care for students.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Dartmouth, where I teach, has decided to go all in on AI to provide mental health care for students.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...
Side note to say that the population of The Netherlands is only around 18 million, so 30k is more substantial than it might seem.
Electoral council confirms results, D66 wins by almost 30,000 www.dutchnews.nl?p=259693
Electoral council confirms results, D66 wins by almost 30,000
www.dutchnews.nl
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Side note to say that the population of The Netherlands is only around 18 million, so 30k is more substantial than it might seem.
*wonders whether everyone has jettisoned care and accuracy over the use of "committing" precisely because suicide is, in effect, being re-criminalised...*
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
*wonders whether everyone has jettisoned care and accuracy over the use of "committing" precisely because suicide is, in effect, being re-criminalised...*
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Really happy to participate in this conference on psychiatry photography in Paris in two weeks! historypsychiatry.com/2025/11/06/c... it's mostly in French but my panel on ethics it's in English. Check out the fantastic programme here #histmed #photohist
Conference: Les clichés de la folie: usages de la photographie en psychiatrie (XIXe–XXIe siècles), Paris (20–21 November 2025)
Dear Hmadness readers, We are happy to share the programme of the international conference Pictures of madness: uses of photography in psychiatry (19th–21st centuries) that will take place in …
historypsychiatry.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Really happy to participate in this conference on psychiatry photography in Paris in two weeks! historypsychiatry.com/2025/11/06/c... it's mostly in French but my panel on ethics it's in English. Check out the fantastic programme here #histmed #photohist
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It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's not just music and language courses- it's 48 courses across the university.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
But here's the thing- our UCU colleagues at other universities (like @Cardiffucu.bsky.social) have faced the exact same threats, fought back, and won. So we can too.
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YIKES! I have linked to and used these resources in the past, a real shame to see them go.
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
YIKES! I have linked to and used these resources in the past, a real shame to see them go.
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To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
To read more about how the "University of Little England" is selling its students short, go here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🚨NEWS🚨
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, Report Finds
"This report calls for a move away from reactive patchwork solutions towards a whole-institution approach where accessibility and inclusion are built-in, not bolted on"
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, Report Finds
"This report calls for a move away from reactive patchwork solutions towards a whole-institution approach where accessibility and inclusion are built-in, not bolted on"
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, New
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
🚨NEWS🚨
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, Report Finds
"This report calls for a move away from reactive patchwork solutions towards a whole-institution approach where accessibility and inclusion are built-in, not bolted on"
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
Disabled Students Still Face Major Barriers in Higher Education, Report Finds
"This report calls for a move away from reactive patchwork solutions towards a whole-institution approach where accessibility and inclusion are built-in, not bolted on"
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...
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📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026.
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026.
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
c.org/PKm6B7svFN
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Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city’s archives
Colonial era records reveal the intersection of race and access to water in South Africa’s history.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
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Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities