Peder Clark

📙 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)

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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...

for a brief history of this: thepolyphony.org/2024/06/10/e...

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.

Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 124, issue 2, April 2025. The background is a bright cyan blue. Dominating the center is a vivid, purple mushroom dusted with vibrant yellow-orange powder, emerging from a similarly colored surface. The issue title reads "Psychedelic Imaginaries," with Ramzi Fawaz listed as the special issue editor. The top right corner features a yellow block with the journal's logo: "The South Atlantic Quarterly" and the abbreviation "SAQ" in bold purple letters. Along the bottom, the text reads: "AGAINST the DAY · The Student Intifada."

"Psychedelic Imaginaries," a special issue of SAQ edited by Ramzi Fawaz, collates fresh and theoretical perspectives on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance.
View the TOC: buff.ly/sYpPsmt
Buy this issue: buff.ly/QnCxi44

PhD Fellowship -- "The relationship between pharmaceuticals and society – including medical cannabis and psychedelics – has attracted sustained attention..."

⭐May 26 2025, review of initial apps 
⭐June 9 2025, international candidates
⭐June 30 2025, domestic candidates

aihp.org/announcement...

@alexdymock.bsky.social has guest curated an exhibition for the Museum of Sex in NYC drawing on her research. The exhibition draws on hidden histories to illustrate how our 21st century understanding of sex is shaped by the "altered states" brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances.

do i know anyone going to the Wellcome library in the next week or two that wouldn't mind photographing a couple of pages of a book for me?

proofs are in

Cannabis GH CfP.docx Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP “Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements” October 23-24, 2025. University of Wisconsin – Madison Building on the foundation of Cannabis: Global Hist...

Cannabis: Global Histories Network CFP
“Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements”

Deadline for Proposals: 20 April 2025
Online & In Person Symposium: 23 & 24 October 2025

Learn more at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#history #histmed #cannabis #policy #marijuana #health

In Depth Out Loud podcast: Ritalin – the biography of a mercurial medicine An audio version of an in depth article on the history of Ritalin, and what the future holds for the drug.

Today I'll be lecturing about the history of this:
theconversation.com/in-depth-out...

and the article...
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“Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: postnatal depression narratives, treatment and reception on BBC radio, 1946–1985 Launched in 1946, Woman’s Hour became one of Britain’s first women-organised radio programmes, predominantly targeting mothers. In 1960, Woman’s Hour transmitted the first mass media broadcast on “...

If interested in changing attitudes to motherhood, radio as health comms, women's voices & medic's expanding responsibilities, my new article explores “Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: Postnatal Depression Narratives, Treatment and Reception on BBC Radio, 1946–85 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....