Peder Clark

this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...

thanks - no, but will form a chapter of my book eventually!

apparently Paul Betts gave talks in more than 2,000 schools!

this is tomorrow, you can sign-up here: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Leah Betts "Sorted" billboard

Leah Betts "Distorted" postcard

giving a paper on Leah Betts and ordinariness in ‘90s Britain at UCD in a fortnight’s time, 4pm thursday 12 February, in-person/online, all welcome!

more details here: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...

Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.

Today, 2.00 UK time, in person and online: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...

Cover of a book "Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley. Sick jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body." The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a white man with short hair, a gold earring, stubble, glasses, and an oxygen tube. He makes eye contact with the viewer and his mouth is slightly open, perhaps in a smile. His hospital gown is pulled up to reveal both a Kaposi's lesion and a smiley face tattoo.

Table of Contents Introduction Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley PART I – PATHOLOGIES AND POWER IN PRINT Chapter 1 – ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture. The case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Callum Smith Chapter 2 – Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture Rebecca Whiteley Chapter 3 – ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards Georgia Haire PART II – DYING LAUGHING: DEATH, DISFIGUREMENT, DISEASE, AND DISABILITY Chapter 4 – Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour Allison Morehead Chapter 5 – Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique Christine Slobogin Chapter 6 – The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News Jo Michael Rezes Chapter 7 – Irony, assisted dying and The Disabled Avant-Garde Laura Cowley PART III – COMICAL HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS Chapter 8 – ‘Doctor, are you speaking in tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey Jeffrey S. Reznick Chapter 9 – Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s Peder Clark Chapter 10 – Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics Soha Bayoumi

Much needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC)

And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

‘All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue’: glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain Abstract. This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era’s accelerated deindustrialization.

Brilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social

This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social

Congrats Malcolm!

doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.

29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...

aahhh, the familiar tang of a friday afternoon "after careful consideration..." email

'“There is a generation of young scholars who are finding themselves stuck in what feels like a period of protracted adolescence,” wrote one young academic earlier this year, in a series of blogs on the early career researcher experience published by the Society for the Study of French History.' 1/3

📙 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...

We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here:
tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w

to borrow a line from steve albini, "some of your friends are this fucked"

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding

Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom

YouTube video by themosttogain The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode HD

@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song

#eahmh25

KFAX19 - X.TEE.C from Klasse Wrecks KFAX19 - X.TEE.C from Klasse Wrecks

also in "X.Tee.C" published by Klasse Wrecks klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/merch/kfax19...

perhaps best documented by Ted Polhemus' photos, which i used for an article for HWO www.historyworkshop.org.uk/music-sound/...

there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts

Lucy Robinson has written a fair bit on it too www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

I can’t in good faith defend ‘Human Traffic’ as a piece of cinema, but it did make culturally visible an entire lifestyle. John Simms: “To me, it’s like a time capsule: it perfectly captures the end of the 90s. That’s what it was like for millions of people every single weekend.”

Who Will Own the ‘God Molecule’? Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

Inside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.

late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...

Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body Since World War II This book explores the historical ties between pop culture and euphoric bodies from the 1950s to the 1980s, offering new insights.

part of this excellent edited collection
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"The Power of E... From This... To This"

one of my oral history participants sent this meme to me

new chapter from me on the folk legend around Ecstasy and football-related violence (or "hooliganism", if you prefer)

rdcu.be/esUdJ

Ed Kiely · Short Cuts: University Finances Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’

Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

very apposite that this is getting re-issued simultaneously with @mikejay.bsky.social's book about Thomas Beddoes and the discovery of laughing gas... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...