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For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
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Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by Rob Ellis.

🎉📚 Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by @rehistories.bsky.social

#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social

Author Spotlight - Rob Ellis discusses 'In Our Own Words' In Our Own Words brings together a collection of essays from a group that became affectionately known as LD (Learning Disability) Club. The project arose from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership …

A bit more detail on ‘In Our Own Words’. Not really meant as a detailed academic contribution but it explains our rationale in aligning knowledge taken from the histories of LD with the needs of everyone involved. unipress.hud.ac.uk/news/163/

A huge team effort including @ionamurphy.bsky.social , @mctom.bsky.social, @louiewheeler.bsky.social, @leoniechesworth.bsky.social, @roryduplessis.bsky.social, @hudunipress.bsky.social

A public history project, a student project, and a co-produced LD project all rolled into one. Primarily a reminder for everyone involved but some insights into what worked for us and some of the ongoing challenges. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...

Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026 “The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers –  International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world  #2 Theories and P...

Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...

A long piece of white paper is covered with colourful drawings. There are blocks of colour as well as images of buildings, people and trees, to the top right someone has written LD Club 2025.

Some co-produced art from the final LD club of the year. Inspired by @ionamurphy.bsky.social and input from everyone inc @mctom.bsky.social and @lucyorkate.bsky.social. Might be of interest @roryduplessis.bsky.social

Notices Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…

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Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!

A three storey brick building with a pitched roof and two lower level wings to either side. To the left are trees in full lead and grassed area with hedges.

Exciting news from Jozefien, one of the Research Fellows on the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. More to follow but I’m jealous of a trip that included the former asylum at Amiens.

To the front are a number of trees in full green leaf. Part of the building (windows framed in orange) can be seen to the right. On the horizon and under cloudy skies are building of different heights and shapes.

A view of Manchester from MMU’s Oxford Road campus.

What brilliant news, it sounds great. Huge congrats 😊

Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture 2025 Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...

If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
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No worries. Always nice to see drive and hard work being rewarded. 😊

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Congrats to @leoniechesworth.bsky.social who has been awarded hugely competitive funding by www.nwcdtp.ac.uk to study towards a PhD. Her focus will be on post war mental health services and she’ll join @manmetuni.bsky.social later this year.

Your semi-regular reminder that registration for this year's conference is currently open!

Get your FREE tickets, and browse our programme, at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/register2025/

Building Britain’s Borders

The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the UK and a new means of controlling them.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

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A cloth mat with colourful artwork and the phrase ‘Bag of Tricks’ at the bottom. There are sever items in the mat including an artist’s mode, a pencil and a mini blackbird on to which someone has chalked a smiley face.

In Göteborg at an event organised by the wonderful Verusca Calabria at the city’s Medical History Museum. Lots of lovely presentations and workshops and a chance to showcase the ‘bag of tricks’, which resulted from a collaboration with the brilliant @suemoffat.bsky.social and New Vic Borderlines

Hidden Histories exhibition series: Disability League in Yorkshire and the UK - Researcher Reflections - Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire Cricket Heritage is excited to announce our second year partnering with students to research, develop, discover and curate an exhibition centering around underrepresented and marginalised gr...

A quick update on the latest project with @yorkshireccc.bsky.social from @manmetuni.bsky.social undergrad, Jamie. Thanks as ever to Charlotte, the Heritage Manager, the cricket foundation and the club. yorkshireccc.com/news/hidden-...

Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2

Nine pale blue boxes are clustered together on a table. They represent police boxes, but are designed in different ways using felt tip pens and other items that have been glued on. A police box is often referred to as a Tardis in the UK because of the Tv programme, Dr Who.

This week’s theme at LD club was crime and punishment (not Dr Who!). A great session with Laura leading on and helping with the building process.

Thanks for the kind words, Ian. Appreciate the message. Sorry I didn’t get to say the opportunity to say hello and thanks in person.

What looks like a three storey building. There is a green door with arched windows to either side. On the second storey there are three windows and on the pitched roof there is one. Now home to the London School of architecture the building is a former church. To the front of the building on the right there are large bins - one black, one green and to the left is the back of a parked car.

Fantastic venue for the #lcc60 conference and great line up too!

The cover is white with a narrow red cross on it. The council coat of arms is superimposed over the top of the cross. The title is: HACKNEY Official Guide Taken from: The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Official Guide Published by. Pyramid Press Ltd on behalf of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Date: 1960

Black and white photos of housing provision in the Borough. The captions are as follows: BUCCLEUCH HOUSE, CLAPTON COMMON A BEDSITTING ROOM IN BUCCLEUCH HOUSE MIXED HOUSING SCHEME, PARKSIDE ESTATE, RUTLAND ROAD THE "BECKERS", RECTORY ROAD, HACKNEY Mixed Housing scheme. View from the south, showing eleven-storey blocks, Club Room and Laundry and four-storey flats in foreground CRAVEN CLOSE FLORENCE COURT, KENNINGHALL ROAD Photo credits: Uncredited Taken from: The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Official Guide Published by. Pyramid Press Ltd on behalf of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Date: 1960

Black and white photos of library provision in the Borough. Captions as follows: CENTRAL LIBRARY CLAPTON BRANCH (EXTERIOR) SOMERFORD GROVE (TEMPORARY) LIBRARY CHILDREN'S LIBRARY AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY JUBILEE EXHIBITION—HACKNEY LIBRARY Photo credits: Uncredited Taken from: The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Official Guide Published by: Pyramid Press Ltd on behalf of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Date: 1960

A black and white photo captioned: A LECTURE ON HEALTH EDUCATION BY A PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR A man stands iin front of a group of seated local residents in a not entirely natural pose. Photo credits: Uncredited Taken from: The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Official Guide Published by: Pyramid Press Ltd on behalf of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney Date: 1960

Municipal guide of the day: the former Metropolitan Borough of Hackney. This one dates from 1960 and features an evidently scintillating lecture on public health.

I co-authored a v.short piece in the Creative Health volume that covered our learning disability group (LD club). It includes contributions from student volunteers.

History UK Disability and History Project The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

📣Call for participants: History UK is continuing its focus groups on disability and history in HE in April. Any students/staff with experience in teaching disability history OR studying history with a disability, come and talk to us! #DisabilityHistory #DisHist
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Yorkshire’s Luddites: At War with the Future

In 1811 textile workers in Britain attacked factories. By the time the #Luddites hit Yorkshire in 1812, it had become a genuine mass movement.

⌛ 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲

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A patch of grass dotted with spring flowers including miniature yellow daffodils and white and purple crocuses.

Another pic from our LD group, hosted by Pennine Heritage. At the end of last year, Trustee Judith helped us plant some bulbs. Nice to see them starting to flower in the spring sunshine.

No Grade II listed buildings were harmed in the making of these… things…

This pic shows a busy beach with holidaymakers, horses be carriages and people selling food. The beach road is lined with buildings and there is a large hotel on the cliff above. The text reads - This is a very good photograph of Scarborough beach early this century, since it shows so many details of working life at the seaside, when holidays were becoming commonplace among richer families. One or two women are selling fish, and dressed in hats and shawls, despite the sunshine. A woman can be seen carry the trestle across for her table ready to start work and advertiser are ‘Oysters fresh from the Beds’.

An undated but early 20th century view of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, before it was quite the seaside destination it is today. Oysters, fresh from the beds anyone!? Image from the South Pennine Archives, hosted by Pennine Heritage.

Despite our best efforts!? 😅