Dr Fabiola Creed

The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social

In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

I greatly enjoyed filming for this series. If you want to know which notorious gangster lived with #syphilis for many years, check out #OriginalGangsters with Sean Bean.

Starts Tuesday 4 November 9pm on Sky HISTORY. (Catchup afterwards on Now TV and Apple TV+)

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

Do men rely only on women to prevent pregnancies? How do masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraception intersect? Our project's final paper is part of this month's issue of Culture, Health, and Sexuality. Check it out here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@tandfresearch.bsky.social

Thank you for the repost and such kind words.

SSHM 2026: In/Out Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Delighted that my new book on the Argentine national team, including chapters on the women's team from the 1971 World Cup, is being published next May and is available for pre-order now

Mistakes I Carried: Building Strength in a Time of Crisis Abstract. My critical mistake as a historian was ignoring the physical body as a site of knowledge production. For years, I analyzed fitness history in arc

🚨Published in the American Historical Review!🚨

My article argues that historians can treat the body as an archive. Using my own training alongside J.C. Hise’s 1930s squat experiments, I explore how fitness culture reshapes bodies, identities & anxieties.

👉 bit.ly/46xlcVw

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Fascinating topic and by a brilliant presenter, plus it's at www.silverstonemuseum.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

Exciting News! The project's very own @d-oneill.bsky.social will be talking about tobacco sponsorship in F1 and its associated public health challenges at the Silverstone Museum next weekend. Do consider attending if interested. Info is in the linked post.

Thanks Kate. Hope to catch up soon - still owe you dinner for all your help! 😄

Thanks Lisa! 😀 I remember well as a newbie PhD - was enthralled and inspired by your Kellogg's talk!

No way, that's my whole chapter 2! You would have been the perfect person to interview, which I really struggled to find at the time when looking at the 'fitness, health, sunbed' industry. Thanks for sharing! 😀

It's a hot topic! 😂

Thank you - my talented sister did them and assisted with the deliberate colour match 😂🍊

Thanks Jenny - hope you're doing super well.

Thanks Vanessa 😀

Oooo, thank you. Huge fan of your research, btw, especially your podcast (Henry Ford is my fave so far as I'm biased to business history)! 😂

Thanks for supporting Jamie - see ya tomorrow 😀

🫣 How does tanning culture speak to class, gender, race, sexuality and age-bound stigma?

📈 Were the public health campaigns effective?

💉 Finally, when reflecting on the past, what’s the future of tanning (and marketing) technologies?

Some of the questions it answers are:

🌧️ Why are sunbeds more prevalent in North(-West) Britain?

🚭 Is the sunbed industry similar to the tobacco, nicotine and alcohol industry?

🔥 Can you trust the sunbed industry’s ‘skin’ and ‘health-enhancement’ campaigns?

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

'Long history of blaming mothers': Trump's Tylenol warning echoes past misconceptions Medical scholars say that efforts to find a singular cause for autism have historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma about autism

🧠 Prof. Marga Vicedo warns: "At the end of the day, saying it's a mother's fault is a very strong and powerful way of keeping mothers as the main caretakers." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
Must-read piece from @npr.org
#Autism #Tylenol

To echo our team, we really valued your feedback. Hope to see you at the next few sports history conferences, and will definitely take on board your kind offer of proof-reading, etc. Thanks again.

1/3 Great day at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social yesterday for the 1st Advisory Board meeting for @kthabitproject.bsky.social . This is a @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of addictive sport sponsorship in UK 1965-2025, with strands on alcohol, tobacco, and gambling

Ordered, and can't wait to read! Wonderful meeting you yesterday - thank you for all your helpful suggestions. Please feel free to send the non-online publication about Newcastle to fabiola.creed@glasgow.ac.uk (if you can)

Such a pleasure to visit Kett’s Books in Wymondham on Friday. You can now buy Cutting the Mustard there. Great community bookshop to support.

Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.

They believe that personal letters from other academics explaining how they value the established services of the Written Archive Centre and how they are concerned about the changes would be very helpful.