Health Hist @UofGlasgow: • Gambling sports sponsorship https://xitter.cf/t.co/gqF1BukKVV • Tanning/beauty/fitness industry • Maternal mental illness SSHM Gazette editor
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We've launched our project's Digital Map, which lets people submit sports-branded memorabilia since 1960. We welcome clothes, programmes, toys, posters, photographs, etc. Your submissions will help us map the history of unhealthy sponsorship to create a public history resource!
We've launched our 'Kicking the Habit' project website and Digital Map. It uses people's submissions of everyday objects to historise unhealthy sponsorship in British sport through branded memorabilia since 1960. Visit to submit content and learn more: kickingthehabit.uk/memorabil…
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Still in need of #WorldCup content? Then read our latest blog post. We've taken a deep dive into the sponsorship partnerships that have supported the #football tournament and its teams over the decades:
kickingthehabit.uk/blog/all-…
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I wrote a book about how Liverpool’s modern history helps us think differently about Britain’s twentieth century - how it demands histories of wagelessness, environment ruin, obsolescence and new forms of resistance. It’s out in paperback today!
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"We’ve lost so much of what football is" ⚽
How has the beautiful game become so dominated commerce? The answers can be found by studying 50 years of Norwich City F.C., says @robinHEG (with a little help from Delia Smith).
Read more in @ConversationUK
bit.ly/4c3lW8W
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Episode 2. The Murder of Donk Ambridge. BBC Radio 4. 9.30am.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kgl…
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Something really exciting .
Wednesday 1 st October BBC Radio 4 9.30am.
All episodes available on BBC Sounds from release. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k3l…
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REMINDER: There’s just under a month left until the CfP for 'Historicising CDoH' closes. Please do share & circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025 if you’re interested.
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CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
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A home is not just a physical, built shell where we live. It is where we dwell in the world, a lesson that local government has repeatedly failed to learn.
My new piece on home and regeneration in #Ladywood for @TheNewMidlands
thenewmidlands.org.uk/home-r…
The story of the #Ladywood regeneration, and the ongoing struggles of its residents, can only be understood if we recognize the profound importance of home.
My new piece for the @TheNewMidlands
thenewmidlands.org.uk/home-r…
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Register! @shame_medicine in Literature seminar
A perfect lunchtime break tomorrow - 4th June 2025, 13.00 – 14.00 BST
Dr Kaye Mitchell, Manchester University
Shame, Femininity, and the ‘Sick Woman’
eventbrite.co.uk/e/shame-fem…
#shame #shameandmedicine #seminar
@UniOfExeterHASS
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So many brilliant speakers are lined up for @shame_medicine end-of-project conference - speaker bios and abstracts are now available :
shameandmedicine.org/wp-cont…
Registration closes for the dinner this week, and on the 2nd June for the conference.
store.exeter.ac.uk/conferenc…
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The proposed regeneration in its current form has a significant social and emotional impact on families… here are some resident reactions including LU’s views..
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5…
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London friends - a reminder that on Tuesday I’m going to be at the amazing Pelican House discussing my book Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain with @johnpmerrick Details on this beautiful poster below. Here’s a link for (free) tickets. pelicanhouse.org/event/liver…
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Our Annual Conference returns! All welcome to attend this two-day showcase of exciting postgraduate research from the Warwick History Department
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@PointsHistory introduces our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis pointshistory.org/post/kicki…
Funded by @wellcometrust
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Here's our first blog post on a fantastic @wellcometrust funded project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'.
Delighted to be working with such a great team!
Our first blog introduces our @wellcometrust funded project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. It focuses on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 and tennis thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/…
Interested in the history of fake tan and tanning injections? My OA article explores the advertising claims ('safer') and consumer experience, focusing on the 1960s to Pamela Anderson's Baywatch era. One of my faves to write so far: manchesterhive.com/display/9…
Thank you, Rachel Elder, @ThSchlich and Sophia Motluk for the opportunity to contribute to and be supported by such a fantastic conference and edited collection: Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century: manchesterhive.com/display/9…