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.
10.10.2025 14:25 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
REMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.
06.10.2025 11:13 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Thanks so much for the kind words, Martin. On behalf of the KtH team, we all just wanted to say thank you for coming yesterday. We really appreciated your insights, and are looking forward to your input as the project develops!
02.10.2025 09:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In particular, many thanks to: @jamesnicholls.bsky.social, @historymartin.bsky.social, @robinireland.bsky.social, Fiona Dobbie, Virginia Berridge, David Beckingham, and Lauren Fisher (from Sporting Chance).
02.10.2025 08:04 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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.
02.10.2025 07:51 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
REMINDER: Thereβs 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 youβre interested.
15.09.2025 07:54 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
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.
25.07.2025 10:21 β π 14 π 14 π¬ 1 π 8
@profannagreenwood.bsky.social @alexmold.bsky.social @shwardle.bsky.social @d-oneill.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social @milkwknives.bsky.social
25.07.2025 10:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
25.07.2025 10:21 β π 14 π 14 π¬ 1 π 8
This 6-year interdisciplinary project is held at
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Led by PIs @profannagreenwood.bsky.social @alexmold.bsky.social @shwardle.bsky.social
PDRAs @milkwknives.bsky.social @d-oneill.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social
14.04.2025 12:58 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for posting a blog introducing our project, 'Kicking the Habit: βAddictiveβ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industriesβ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis.
Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
14.04.2025 12:47 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 2 π 3
Kicking the Habit: βAddictiveβ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025
The researchers leading the Wellcome-funded βKicking the Habitβ project introduce us to its key themes, contexts, and guiding ambitions.
The researchers (@kthabitproject.bsky.social) leading the Wellcome-funded βKicking the Habitβ project introduce us to its key themes, socio-historical contexts, and guiding ambitions.
@kthabitproject.bsky.social
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/k...
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Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk
Curator @nfmofficial.bsky.social Former utility DEF. Views my own.
2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner for Football's Great War by Pen & Sword.
Iβm an academic based at Ulster University exploring youth, sport, gambling, and disability.
The History of Advertising Trust - the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. Search our catalogue: http://bit.ly/2xQLOAN
Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.socialβ¬. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Historian of UK but living in Sweden - working on stammering, patient organisations, diabetes and rheumatism. https://www.actdisease.org/
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Mass Observation and FrΓ₯gelista fanboy. He/him.
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Historian of medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about chronic illness, mental health, and soon, pain | Lover of old π , moderately strong βοΈ and reality πΊ
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Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Historian of ethics, science and medicine at the University of Manchester. Most recent book 'The Making of British Bioethics' (2014); currently writing a book on the history of postwar conservation priorities.
History person. Cloverβs dog mom. βοΈ Definitely not that journalist of the same name, so I am begging you please don't @ me.
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her).
Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall.
ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book. Looks at home, class & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she. Sharing her home office with πββ¬ πββ¬
Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
Scottish, European, mother of four girls
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