Sarah Chaney

The good people of Chingford 👍

A group of local residents out doorknocking and leafletting for Chingford and Woodford Green Community Independents.

A group of local residents out doorknocking and leafletting for Chingford and Woodford Green Community Independents.

We spent the weekend in South Chingford and Woodford Green listening to residents' priorities for our area.

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Breaking my unintentional vow of silence on here to share this news. Getting back into the swing of campaigning!

📢New article from me, Niyah Campbell, @kentishscribbler.bsky.social & @sarahvmarks.bsky.social📢

'The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c.1800–2020' is OA with History of the Human Sciences doi.org/10.1177/0952...

#HistPsych #HistSTM #BlackHistory

Care in Custody: From police matrons to forensics | Royal College of Nursing An online talk on the history of women in the police service and the role of nursing in forensics.

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A person holds a sign reading "Hear every voice"

Join us at #RCN25 Congress for the Sign Painting Studio with artist Peter Liversidge. Create your own placard, some of which will feature in 'The Art of Nursing' exhibition in late June. Materials are provided, and you can take your placard home.

Exhibition Hall, Monday – Wednesday, 10 am – 4 pm.

A woman in white overalls and cap standing in front of a display of cardboard signs with black painted text: “trust is everything”

A group of people learning to paint placards around the artist in white overalls and cap

Placards leaning against the wall and drying on the floor. They are painted in black capitals in cardboard including: “nursing is the future” “I blink with you” and “byddwch garedig”

Nurse painting a placard on cardboard in black capitals reading “protect mental health nursing”

On the way home from RCN Congress after a busy day signpainting with Peter Liversidge and @rcnlibraries.bsky.social. So many fantastic placards for our #ArtofNursing exhibition! The sign studio opens again tomorrow and Wed 🪧

Exhibition display case in front of a wall panel and map image. Display reads: “Health at the Deep End: Breaking the inverse care law”

From Brian Jarman’s inequality maps of the 1970s to David Widgery’s activism it also gives me hope that the fight to tackle inequality is still out there, even if sadly lacking from the current government agenda. This is not the end of the story!

I’ve really enjoyed doing the research into this over the last 8 months, and meeting some great people who are battling to make a difference to inequality, from the GPs in “deep end” practices in Scotland to the Museum of Homelessness.

Exhibition: Unequal – Health and Society Not everyone receives the care they need, even under a universal healthcare system. This exhibition explores the history of health inequalities in the UK.

Unequal: the history of health and society - Exhibition launched! The exhibition is free and open to all at the Royal College of GPs, 30 Euston Square (next to Euston Station). You can also see a (slightly different) version of the exhibition online here: www.rcgp.org.uk/about/museum...

Photograph of a woman in a yellow dress standing next to a gravestone in a wooded cemetery

How did I not know Betsi Cadwaladr was buried in Abney Park until today? #HistNursing

Well, that was tempting fate. Since I posted this they have eaten all the runner beans! 😼

I have grown stuff! (mostly tomatoes) This is a rare achievement and I am now counting the days until they die or the cats eat them 🌱

Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients

#HealthInequalities
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Alt text: A bold digital graphic split into two halves. On the left, in red and black text, it reads: “CLAIM: 383% rise in people too sick to work” — attributed to the DWP press release from 13 March 2025. On the right, in white and black, it states: “REALITY: The actual rise is 50% — mostly due to migration from legacy benefits.” Above the hashtag section, a prominent line reads: “There are lies, damn lies and (Labour’s) statistics.” At the bottom, it cites the UK Statistics Authority letter to DWP, March 2025. Hashtags included are #DisabilityBenefitsCuts and #WelfareNotWorkfare. The colour scheme is red, black, and white for sharp visual contrast.

Still, nothing will beat the time Tesco sent me happy birthday napkins instead of sanitary towels

The mystery of supermarket substitutions. I order mushrooms. They send me… cheese and garlic bread??

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

On #TransDayOfVisibility — and every day — we celebrate trans people and reaffirm the fight for a world where they can live freely, without discrimination or hate.

In 2002, buying in Waltham Forest cost 6x the average salary - by 2018, it jumped to 14x. House prices have now hit £525K, while the council pledged 35% of new homes would be affordable. So why are so many still out of reach?

The UK Government committed to tackling child poverty, and right now it is rising. At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty.

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This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

Did anyone vote for this?

@meadwaj.bsky.social tears apart Rachel Reeves' #Budget2025

Being a downright #TypicalHistorian at a music festival

YouGov poll asking if I believe in vampires and wondering if that’s linked to the #SpringStatement

Children may, and in fact not infrequently do, grow up healthily in spite of a bad material environment. They may avoid clinical illnesses due to infections, though exposed to the infections; they may survive, undamaged, illnesses resulting from the invasion of their tissues by pathogenic microorganisms, but they cannot survive unscathed prolonged deprivations or deficiencies of certain essentials for normal nutrition.

From M’Gonigle and Kirby,‘Poverty and Public Health’, 1936. This features in the exhibition I’m curating on health inequalities. Hospital admissions for malnutrition were on the rise even before today’s welfare cuts.

Kidney dish similar to the ones used by workhouse nurses made of felt

White sheets with labels showing the types of cases and patients the workhouse nurses tended to

A district nurse’s medical bag from the 1920s. Workhouse nurses had similar tools and medicines at their disposal

Excellent exhibition, ‘Making the Rounds’ at @rcnlibraries.bsky.social in London.This exhibit explores the experience and stories of workhouse nurses in Norfolk. As artefacts tend to not survive from workhouse infirmaries, artist Connie Flynn used textiles to share these stories #workhouse #histmed

1/There’s been a blitzkrieg of stories like this over the past week about trans people. 0.5% of the population. All appearing across the biggest media platforms in the UK. From the BBC to national press. Rolled out by Tufton Street think tanks, based on ‘studies’ written by anti-trans campaigners.

Post a warning: My all time favourite from my local chicken shop in Hackney 10+ years ago (I still don’t understand it)

This coming Monday in Woodford: a welcome antidote to the awfulness of politics right now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1281232473...