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sexhistorian.bsky.social
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
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Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.

Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Nov 22
Hi new followers 👋

I'm a health historian with expertise in childhood, sexuality, emotions, public health & activism, but what does that mean?

Currently, I'm researching the history of heating & health in the North East on the 'Carbon Bodies' project.

#HistMed #HistSex #HSTM #HistChild
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is asking the woman to introduce himself .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is asking the woman to introduce himself .
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed
Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
The CSHHH anniversary is TODAY! Join us at 3:30 for two brilliant talks, chat, drinks and snacks!
cshhh.bsky.social CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 14d
One last reminder and then I promise I will stop but if you are anywhere near Glasgow on Wednesday do please come celebrate 20 years of the @cshhh.bsky.social with us! Talks from the fantastic Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social, drinks and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social's best snacks!
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed
October 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
THIS IS HAPPENING NOW! Join us on zoom!
October 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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lshtmhistory.bsky.social
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...
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
www.lshtm.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
All attempts to update my diary today have been foiled by (Kit) Marlowe, our new agent of chaos.
A black kitten with yellow eyes is sat on a weekly planner on a wooden desk in the sunshine.
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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thelondonarchives.bsky.social
The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement.

Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇

#NHST #HIVstory #Archives

www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
New job @unistrathclyde.bsky.social starts today!

I'll be researching the history of activism around AIDS denial in the UK, Australia & transnational spaces (online, conferences, protests etc).

You can read more about my project here:

wellcome.org/research-fun...
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
wellcome.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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physiciansgallery.bsky.social
Join us and @sexhistorian.bsky.social on 10 Sept to explore women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS care and activism in Scotland

Book your ticket now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-his...
Promotional image. Text reads: women's histories of HIV/AIDS in Scotland 10 September 2025 6pm
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
I'm excited for next week's Sexual Health: Past, Present & Future workshop.

I'll be speaking on health, consent, & agency, through Gillick competence in 1980s teenage magazines (because I'm cool) 🤓😎

Intrigued, but can't attend? Read my chapter on the topic:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK593...
drannehanley.bsky.social Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social · Mar 7
Registration is open for our workshop, #SexualHealth: Past Present and Future, at #UniversityofBirmingham. Join us in person or online. For those joining in person, delicious lunch will be provided. Registration is free but essential.

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#histsex #histmed #medhums #HIV
A workshop flyer, including a QR code for registration.
June 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor.
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians
Front cover of the journal Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University Press. Purple cover with white text. The logo for the Society for the Social History of Medicine - a purple background with the central design of letters SSHM a lighter shade of purple.
May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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sarahcrook.bsky.social
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
After months of us both going hither and thither to a variety of archives looking for material on fuel poverty, this week I'm having the best time workshopping a co-authored article for Carbon Bodies with @rebwright.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Having an excellent time in @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this week. Loads of fascinating stuff on fuel poverty activism, including incredibly polite letters to the TUC addressed 'Dear Sir and brother' asking for them to help with a campaign to abolish standing charges on electricity.
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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jennycrane.bsky.social
Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Excited to be heading to the Modern Records Centre archive for a few days, but worried it'll take me 12 hours to get to Coventry like last time I attempted this journey... 😶
June 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Digging through 1970s issues of Community Care magazine for social workers' responses to fuel poverty, and I'm coming across so much interesting stuff on Meals-on-Wheels. Please tell me someone excellent has written a history of Meals-on-Wheels I can read? #HistMed #HistFood
April 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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salawatson.bsky.social
Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.
PLANNING PERSPECTIVES 'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980 Sally Watson School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ABSTRACT Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy, abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering, reductions in traffic management budgets following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and practices.
April 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
sexhistorian.bsky.social
Extremely excited to be at #HEXConference today and looking forward to the next couple of days!
hexhistory.bsky.social hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · Mar 10
@hexhistory.bsky.social Conference first keynote, by Dr Ville Kivimäki, on the concept and use of experience in history studies. (Talk title too long to quote here 😆)
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Interested in the Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social but wonder who we are? We have a new Meet the Team page! Have a look! sshm.org/portfolio/me...
Meet the Team
Visit the post for more.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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scotsarchives.bsky.social
As the UK’s first gay helpline and Scotland's first gay charity, Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a key source of support to LGBT+ people across Scotland and the UK.

Find out more about the organisation and their archive via their website: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
University of Edinburgh Exhibitions | Lothian Gay and Lesbian…
As the UK’s first gay helpline and Scotland's first gay charity, Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a key source of support to LGBT+ people across…
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February 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...
Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh
Recruiting now: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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February 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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drsarahlkenny.bsky.social
Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/
Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out
Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny
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February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM