Siobhán Hearne
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea
September 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I've been reading the Russian Red Cross's magazine lately and the back covers perfectly encapsulate the whiplash of the 1990s. In one issue - a cute dog calendar, in another - an advert for a US-manufactured antibiotic to treat gonorrhoea
Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Back to reality after a brilliant couple of weeks at the National Archives of Armenia. Trying to convince myself that I love the understated beauty of the UK in autumn, rather than fantasising about sunshine and mountains.
Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...
July 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...
En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
En route to ICCEES and looking forward to catching up with colleagues. Come join our panel on solidarities and relief across the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It's on Thursday 24th at 14:45 with @jolaycock.bsky.social and @catherinegibson.bsky.social www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
For my article, I was lucky enough to interview HIV educators who travelled to the USSR & participants of the International Gay and Lesbian Symposium and Film Festival (Moscow and Leningrad, 1991). Tom Boellstorff even shared his amazing archive of Symposium photographs muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
July 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
For my article, I was lucky enough to interview HIV educators who travelled to the USSR & participants of the International Gay and Lesbian Symposium and Film Festival (Moscow and Leningrad, 1991). Tom Boellstorff even shared his amazing archive of Symposium photographs muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Ideal working conditions
May 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Ideal working conditions
What’s the opposite of a manel? It was great to discuss Soviet medical internationalism with @aschacht.bsky.social, Eva Rogaar, and Maria Vyatchina at our @esshc.bsky.social panel yesterday.
March 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What’s the opposite of a manel? It was great to discuss Soviet medical internationalism with @aschacht.bsky.social, Eva Rogaar, and Maria Vyatchina at our @esshc.bsky.social panel yesterday.
If you too are interested in rethinking histories of the sexual revolution in Europe, join us at our @esshc.bsky.social panel today at 16:30 in Lipsius 228. Featuring papers from @npapadogian.bsky.social, Anita Buhin, and Anna Dobrowolska
March 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you too are interested in rethinking histories of the sexual revolution in Europe, join us at our @esshc.bsky.social panel today at 16:30 in Lipsius 228. Featuring papers from @npapadogian.bsky.social, Anita Buhin, and Anna Dobrowolska
It's a beautiful morning in Newcastle for the beginning of the 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past' conference. Looking forward to discussing internationalist initiatives beyond the mainstream across the next two days research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341
March 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It's a beautiful morning in Newcastle for the beginning of the 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past' conference. Looking forward to discussing internationalist initiatives beyond the mainstream across the next two days research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341
Proofs! Coming soon as part of an exciting special issue on transnational AIDS activism, edited by the wonderful @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Proofs! Coming soon as part of an exciting special issue on transnational AIDS activism, edited by the wonderful @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social
It's exciting to have the first tangible 'thing' from my current project out in the world! Also, thanks to the wonderful IFRC Archives, the article includes photographs of Henrik Beer, the League of Red Cross Societies' Secretary General, in Tashkent in the 1960s
February 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It's exciting to have the first tangible 'thing' from my current project out in the world! Also, thanks to the wonderful IFRC Archives, the article includes photographs of Henrik Beer, the League of Red Cross Societies' Secretary General, in Tashkent in the 1960s
Visual representation of the post-Christmas return to work
January 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Visual representation of the post-Christmas return to work
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December 2, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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I always enjoy reading the bizarre miscellaneous 'news' updates from the USSR yearbooks. This 1986 edition includes an enormous sunflower and a humble brag about a dog catching an eel.
November 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I always enjoy reading the bizarre miscellaneous 'news' updates from the USSR yearbooks. This 1986 edition includes an enormous sunflower and a humble brag about a dog catching an eel.
The annual @peripheralhist.bsky.social workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe and Eurasia will be held on Zoom on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. All are welcome and you can sign up here: forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj... Please feel free to share with interested students and colleagues.
November 21, 2024 at 8:22 AM
The annual @peripheralhist.bsky.social workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe and Eurasia will be held on Zoom on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. All are welcome and you can sign up here: forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj... Please feel free to share with interested students and colleagues.
Extremely on brand gift from husband's work trip, purchased not long after being in 'punching distance' of Nigel Farage (his words)
November 14, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Extremely on brand gift from husband's work trip, purchased not long after being in 'punching distance' of Nigel Farage (his words)
Very excited to have been translated into Estonian. A short essay I wrote for Deep Baltic a few years ago is now available in 'Kõlvatu Tallinn', a book recently published by the Tallinn City Life Museum www.apollo.ee/kolvatu-tall...
November 8, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Very excited to have been translated into Estonian. A short essay I wrote for Deep Baltic a few years ago is now available in 'Kõlvatu Tallinn', a book recently published by the Tallinn City Life Museum www.apollo.ee/kolvatu-tall...
Writing second book energy
November 14, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Writing second book energy
Go_A were absolutely amazing last night. It was also super special to hear so many scousers singing along in Ukrainian
October 26, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Go_A were absolutely amazing last night. It was also super special to hear so many scousers singing along in Ukrainian
Thrilling to see Vasily Petrenko back in Liverpool to conduct Shostakovich's 11th symphony last night, especially because I was close enough to essentially join the bass section
October 20, 2023 at 9:30 AM
Thrilling to see Vasily Petrenko back in Liverpool to conduct Shostakovich's 11th symphony last night, especially because I was close enough to essentially join the bass section
Soviet anti-AIDS poster from 1989, which depicts a heterosexual man and describes AIDS as the 'price of casual sex'. There are so many similar and evocative posters from this period, in which AIDS is presented as something exclusively spread by women through casual/paid sex
October 9, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Soviet anti-AIDS poster from 1989, which depicts a heterosexual man and describes AIDS as the 'price of casual sex'. There are so many similar and evocative posters from this period, in which AIDS is presented as something exclusively spread by women through casual/paid sex
Gems from the Wellcome Collection - a series of photographs of Soviet anti-war marches of the 1980s that were tucked into the files of the UK section of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
October 4, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Gems from the Wellcome Collection - a series of photographs of Soviet anti-war marches of the 1980s that were tucked into the files of the UK section of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War