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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster

@agnesjuliet.bsky.social

Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her

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Baby’s first trip to Oxford

24.02.2026 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 2019, I launched the Healthy Scepticism project w/ support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social and including fave colleagues @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social. Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, it's a book! Preorder (w/ discount) here. waterstones.com/book/healthy...

17.02.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, The Nostalgia Divide Nostalgia and the cringe factor. Adam Fleming explores why 2016 is big online.

I’m also on UK Radio! BBC R4’s AntiSocial, c.40m in talking about, you guessed it, nostalgia www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

06.02.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Twist - Retro-TrΓ€ume: Mehr als nur Nostalgie? - Komplette Sendung | ARTE War frΓΌher wirklich alles besser? "Twist" im Retro-Rausch: Die Schweds aus Γ–sterreich leben wie in den Goldenen 20ern. Der franzΓΆsische Musiker Mattyeux liebt Sound und Look der 80er, VHS-Γ„sthetik ink...

I’m on German TV! The good bit (with me in it) starts at 16:00 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

06.02.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone in the comments has called them a β€œfanatical cult” 🫠

26.01.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely none

26.01.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not funny though is it

26.01.2026 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

GB news are calling the Fabian Society a cabal that controls the City of London hahhahahhahahah

26.01.2026 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Busses beginning with P are always the most choatic

…I’m looking at you P5

21.01.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cold, Cold War

Americans have long sought to settle the Arctic www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... @historytoday.com

20.01.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A dangerous emotion? Heavy on the question mark this evening on The World Today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

16.01.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agnes’ book sits high in a rich, recent library of β€˜nostalgia’ texts β€” often poised on that etymological fulcrum of the β€˜longing for’ & the β€˜pain of’ *home*, which seems so apposite to our injured times

14.01.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

14.01.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.

appropriately reflective episode of BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Perennial questions of innovation & nostalgia. With Margaret Heffernan
@timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @cjfaraday.bsky.social @nickfthilton.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

14.01.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
β€˜The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!

We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

11.12.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 17
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Filming for German TV feat. Sylvie the dog

13.01.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I wrote about Paddington and nostalgia for the Big Issue!

13.01.2026 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neither me nor my partner have nailed solo bedtime with two kiddos

09.01.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve escaped from my newborn and am en route to broadcasting house!*

*shout out to the team of three making this possible: parents looking after toddler and partner parenting said newborn at home

09.01.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker…
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social

09.01.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nostalgie - ein gefΓ€hrliches GefΓΌhl? Die britische Historikerin Agnes Arnold-Forster hat die Geschichte der Nostalgie erforscht - und dabei ihre AbgrΓΌnde aufgedeckt.

Just before Casper was born, I was filmed for the German TV programme Kulturzeit. I was chatting about nostalgia but I was heavily pregnant and it’s overdubbed in German so cant guarantee I’m saying anything sensible www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...

08.01.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To celebrate my return to the land of the living (or something) I’ll be chatting live on Radio 4 this Friday evening about INNOVATION www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tune in!

07.01.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sure no one has noticed my absence from here, but I’ve been mostly gone from work + life recovering physically + emotionally from the v traumatic birth of my second son Casper in September.

We spent most of the autumn in hospital but he’s now doing fantastically. Just busy being a baby.

07.01.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 1
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

05.01.2026 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

My partner took shared parental leave in 2024 and HR at my then place of work (a university) said that we were the first in the organisation to do so! (which meant she didn’t really know how it worked…)

27.11.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feat. in @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s article about β€˜90s nostalgia! www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

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If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

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Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster Find out more about Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster

I wrote a book about this! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

14.11.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Ty!

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