John Nott
@jdnott.bsky.social
Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
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John Nott
@jdnott.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Between Feast and Famine
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...
uclpress.co.uk
My book 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century' is out today with UCL Press! This also means its fully open access and fully free to read and share and discuss with your friends and family.
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
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I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
Enemies, Comrades, and The Counterrevolutionary Logic of Cisness - Historical Materialism
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, Trans femme futures: Abolitionist ethics for transfeminist worlds. Pluto Press, 2024. Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liber...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
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ICYMI: John Nott, 'Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings - John Nott, 2023
Medical schools are among the most important spaces for the history of the body. It is here that students come to know the anatomical bodies of their future pat...
journals.sagepub.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICYMI: John Nott, 'Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New article in Global Public Health, fresh out of the @epidemy.org:
'Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey.'
Please share!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey.'
Please share!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey
This article examines the history of population health surveillance in modern Africa, considering the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme as a bridge between twentieth and twenty-first ce...
www.tandfonline.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New article in Global Public Health, fresh out of the @epidemy.org:
'Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey.'
Please share!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey.'
Please share!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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First paper in @epidemy.org's Data & Disease Special Issue in Medical History out now, recommend a read (don't think Cal is here on Bsky but sent my congrats elsewhere) #histmed
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi | Medical History | Cambridge Core
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi
www.cambridge.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
First paper in @epidemy.org's Data & Disease Special Issue in Medical History out now, recommend a read (don't think Cal is here on Bsky but sent my congrats elsewhere) #histmed
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Congratulations to John Nott! His #OpenAccess book Between Feast and Famine published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3WBLTEh #Ghana #Africa #Health #Food #ColonialHistory
Between Feast and Famine
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...
bit.ly
March 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to John Nott! His #OpenAccess book Between Feast and Famine published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3WBLTEh #Ghana #Africa #Health #Food #ColonialHistory
My book 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century' is out today with UCL Press! This also means its fully open access and fully free to read and share and discuss with your friends and family.
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
Between Feast and Famine
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...
uclpress.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My book 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century' is out today with UCL Press! This also means its fully open access and fully free to read and share and discuss with your friends and family.
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
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January 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The National Archives christmas tree
I love that the presents are archive boxes (IR 40 series, to be exact)
That’s how I think about archive boxes
I love that the presents are archive boxes (IR 40 series, to be exact)
That’s how I think about archive boxes
December 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM
The National Archives christmas tree
I love that the presents are archive boxes (IR 40 series, to be exact)
That’s how I think about archive boxes
I love that the presents are archive boxes (IR 40 series, to be exact)
That’s how I think about archive boxes
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