My teaching replacement is now being advertised. It’s a 2.5 day a week job, which I know isn’t great for some people, but - unusually- it is fixed term for 6 years. Hope it suits someone - please distribute to your networks!

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHE108/tea…

My article on male rape survivors is out with History Workshop Journal! Written when I was at Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters it explores the change to male rape legislation and asks what this tells us about trauma and masculinity. It’s open access thanks to Geneva Graduate Institute Library! academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…

🚨OUT NOW and OPEN ACCESS!

Our fabulous collection of work on HIV & COVID, edited w/ Maurice Nagington 🏳️‍🌈💃☮️ & P Aggleton.

😍It features essays from Dennis Altman, Prof. Chris Ashford, Tim Dean, Max Morris, Theodore Kerr, carmen logie 🌈 or Kiran Pienaar!

👀taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…

📢JOBS: 2 x Lecturer and 1 x Senior Lecturer.
Permanent, £40-68k. Expertise in ‘race’/ethnicity; health; ageing; social media & social networks (quant); quant/mixed method SNA; survey methods. Apply by 29/04/2024
The British Academy The BSA UoM School of Social Sciences
jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

The Women's Library holds a short run of 'SHE' magazine from 1970-1973. Zuhra Karim (LSE alumna) started the magazine in Karachi in 1963.

We'd like to locate copies of 'SHE' magazine from the 1960s for a project we're working on. Please get in touch if you can help.

Upcoming event from Social Work History Network: Contested values of social work in time and place. Exploring ‘origins of social care and social work’ 24 April 2024 08:30am to 10:15am (UK time)
kcl.ac.uk/events/contest…

New blog post by CHSTM's Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social

To the anti-trans LGBs who wrongly believe that historic conversion therapy practices targeted LGBs but not Ts, and—more importantly—that Ts were not there FIGHTING BY YOUR SIDE to have it abolished, I have news for you. This thread covers one example of why you’re wrong. 🧵🪡

Presenting my work to History Scotland was one of the best parts of my PhD, and a wonderful opportunity! I would thoroughly encourage any Scottish history pals to contribute ☺️

Calling all Scottish Historians! History Scotland is putting together its webinar programme for 2024-5. If you would be interested in giving a webinar based on your research, please get in touch with me. Proposals from ECRs especially welcome. Payment offered!

This week's to-do list includes revisions on an article, applying for a job & writing more book... Oh and moving house (thankfully I'll still be in Scotland). Aiming to channel Moriarty, but currently feeling a bit Coco.

Dream job alert (for me & many others)!

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Apply and join us here in Edinburgh for a full-time, open ended lectureship in hsitory of medicine.

Happy to field any questions for this job.

Applications are due on 26 April.

It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out.

It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!

Pleased to share this short OA introduction to a special issue of Soc Hist Med on 'sexpertise', co-edited with Hannah Charnock and Sarah Jones and featuring among others Body Self Family 🌈 Dr Ross Brooks Dr Jen Grove (she/her) Francesca Campani Mallory Szymanski

doi.org/10.1093/shm/hk…

Doctoral studentship: Growing up Queer, 1790-1918; Very excited about this project. Student will work with Matt Cook, me, & the wonderful Museum of Home & be nurtured by Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood & WGIQ at Oxford CGIS.history.ox.ac.uk/ahrc-cdp-stude…

Rare Spring sunshine and finally holding an actual physical copy of something long confined to a series of badly labelled word docs. Rumbles coming very soon Profile Books Wellcome Collection

Ongoing friendly reminder that if you think you might need a historian to act as consultant or advisor on anything you're undertaking, or want to bring historical practice into your own beloved franchise, then my DMs (and email via my website - link in bio) are always very open!

My book, Thinking Through Family. Narratives of Care Experienced Lives is available from Bristol Uni Press - three chapters #OpenAccess here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/book/…

#HistSex #HistMed & #HistChild folks, has anyone written about the 1980s DES 'Your Choice For Life' sex education video yet? I want to cite someone (& not have to write this myself).

Any ideas Caroline Rusterholz, Laura Tisdall, Dr Anne Hanley Ben Mechen ???