Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth

Research Volunteers Needed for a project on the history of young people and democracy in modern Britain. We would like to hear from people who took part in a mock election at their UK school between 1983 and 2001. Write to us about your experiences here: https://forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?

Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!

Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

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Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland?

Apply to showcase your research at our 2026 Research Showcase. ✨

✔ Up to £1000 funding
✔ Creative formats welcome
✔ Open to all PhDs at SGSAH member institutions

Apply by 27th March ⏳

🔗 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

LGBTQ+ History Month: 'Scottish trans pasts, useable and otherwise?' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland.

I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!

History folks in the vicinity of Glasgow, why not improve your Tuesday afternoon with a seminar? #HistHealth #HistMed

Documentary Series | YHP

The full episode is available to watch by clicking on the link below! Please watch and share widely!

#EachOneTeachOne✊🏿

www.younghistoriansproject.org/documentary-...

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The next CSHHH seminar is tomorrow! Join @cshhh.bsky.social from 4-5:30 for a fascinating talk exploring the history of BPD from @drflewis.bsky.social! #HistMed #HistHealth

www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Excited to have just submitted a panel proposal for @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social MBS 2026 with the fabulous and brilliant @jennycrane.bsky.social and the adequately competent @millieqed.bsky.social.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

🎉My first peer reviewed article just published in Urban History as FirstView!
Following on from my thesis, it covers privy pails & ashpits, the fly problem, public health, mortality & sanitation investment

A smooth & stress free publishing experience @urbanhistory.bsky.social
#OpenAccess #histmed

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The first @cshhh.bsky.social afternoon seminar of the year is today! Join us 4-5:30 for what promises to be fantastic talk and adequate nibbles. #HistMed #HistSci #SciComm

Details and abstract here: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

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Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!

We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives. This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...

Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed

The CSHHH anniversary is TODAY! Join us at 3:30 for two brilliant talks, chat, drinks and snacks!

Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

THIS IS HAPPENING NOW! Join us on zoom!

Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target

Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below:
Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

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All attempts to update my diary today have been foiled by (Kit) Marlowe, our new agent of chaos.

The National HIV Story Trust has an exciting opportunity for someone to join the HIVstory project based at #TheLondonArchives on a paid archives placement.

Full details on the role and how to apply are below 👇

#NHST #HIVstory #Archives

www.nhst.org.uk/archive-plac...

New job @unistrathclyde.bsky.social starts today!

I'll be researching the history of activism around AIDS denial in the UK, Australia & transnational spaces (online, conferences, protests etc).

You can read more about my project here:

wellcome.org/research-fun...

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Join us and @sexhistorian.bsky.social on 10 Sept to explore women’s experiences of HIV/AIDS care and activism in Scotland

Book your ticket now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-his...

Actually if you just want general (sexual) health history / Birmingham vibes, you could read my article on 1990s queer women's conceptualisation of health/activism, its really fun. Many puns!

‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's Pride month after all! 🏳️‍🌈

I'm excited for next week's Sexual Health: Past, Present & Future workshop.

I'll be speaking on health, consent, & agency, through Gillick competence in 1980s teenage magazines (because I'm cool) 🤓😎

Intrigued, but can't attend? Read my chapter on the topic:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK593...

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The logo for the Society for the Social History of Medicine - a purple background with the central design of letters SSHM a lighter shade of purple.

✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor.
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians

History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

After months of us both going hither and thither to a variety of archives looking for material on fuel poverty, this week I'm having the best time workshopping a co-authored article for Carbon Bodies with @rebwright.bsky.social

Having an excellent time in @mrcwarwick.bsky.social this week. Loads of fascinating stuff on fuel poverty activism, including incredibly polite letters to the TUC addressed 'Dear Sir and brother' asking for them to help with a campaign to abolish standing charges on electricity.

Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Excited to be heading to the Modern Records Centre archive for a few days, but worried it'll take me 12 hours to get to Coventry like last time I attempted this journey... 😶