New thing just out on the history of Boots' ill-fated branch in Fiji, co-written with Anna Greenwood and Hilary Ingram: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!

New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History

Publishing today!

Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

OUP's new AI editorial assistant will help in the 'assessment' of manuscripts, apparently. This strikes me as a very bad idea. Peer review is something academics do for free as a service to their discipline, and last time I checked 'Alchemist Review' is not my scholarly peer.

My book, Growing Up and Going Out: Youth culture, commerce, and leisure space in post-war Britain comes out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in less than two weeks! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

We're hosting an online workshop tomorrow on "Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long C20th". 7 wonderful speakers (email for programme). Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-wor...

Today from the Terry's of York company archive - this rather lovely sketch of the grand staircase for the main administrative block of the factory at Bishopthorpe Road. Built in 1924 it was supposedly modelled on the famous staircase on the RMS Titanic and also boasted a similar glass dome above.

“This plays on a feeling that new towns simply should not be. Towns should grow over the course of decades, over centuries – not overnight...”

precastreinforced.co.uk/2022/07/16/u...

Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty Four is repeated next Sunday (17th, at 10.00 pm) on BBC4.

I’m the guest editor of the current issue of @culturalstudies.bsky.social looking at the worldwide legacy of the great Stuart Hall.

You can read the entire series & my introduction here for free: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/int...

We've stuck a mini-display about some Boots stores around the world in West Bridgford Library, if you happen to be passing.

This looks great: Patient Voices from the Victorian Asylum by Dr Sarah Holland. Wednesday, 6:30pm [GMT] online

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patient-vo...

Morning bluesky. After years of avoiding evil X, I'm looking forward to reconnecting.