Great news! We've been awarded the Wellcome Research Enrichment-Public Engagement Award and University of Warwick's Arts & Humanities Impact Award to fund a project with Fuel, where we will develop audio pieces on 20th century maternal illness. More soon! WarwickHistory

Important article on the intellectual origins of the 'health centre' idea. Also interesting to compare to the current fashion for 'hubs' of all kinds in healthcare planning today.

Lovely Birmingham.

Volunteers needed to help with Covid-19 vaccine booster roll out in West Midlands bbc.in/3rVQdOS

With #RishiSunak on the verge of #Number10, join Aeron Davis, Colm Cavanagh and caroline slocock to discuss another recalibration of the UK's #economicpolicy and how the #Treasury has become so powerful and distinct in #Whitehall since 1976. A handful of tickets are still available👇

So... I think... I'm on this today. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

Very proud of Eliza for getting a distinction in her MA AND delivering an excellent graduation speech to her cohort! 👏👏👏

We all love Jen Orpin. We all love Forton Services. We all love Pies. We all love Christmas. Not much not to love with these Jen Orpin Christmas cards then is there? the-modernist.org/collections/ch…

Our Steering Group is meeting next week. You’re welcome to join them from 11am at United Reformed Church, Warwick Road, CV1 1EX. Find out more: healthwatchcoventry.co.uk/event/2022-12-…

Just as combination chemotherapy has significantly improved cancer treatment, so combining different immunotherapies heralds a new era of personalised cancer therapy. bbc.co.uk/news/health-63…

My article on the 1979 Royal Commission on the #NHS has been accepted for publication by TCBH Journal! While we know a lot about some of the big policy pieces of the '70s and '80s, we don't know a huge amount about the Commission or its evidence base 1/8

Looking for an MFL competition for your school? 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪 I created the MFL Numeracy Challenge for The Mercian Trust schools. It's started so well, I've given it a rebrand and wanted to share for free: tes.com/resource-detai… #mfltwitterati

Officially graduated on Tuesday! Doing a PhD during the pandemic was an experience... made much easier by all the brilliant fellow students & staff WarwickHistory. 🎓✅

The National Archives have created a portal to explore some of their #NHS archival sources - there's some great #HistNursing material for you to browse online (free open access) nationalarchives.gov.uk/nhs-75/

One of my biggest reasons for taking a WFH role was to allow the flexibility to adopt a dog. Finn has been with us three weeks now - he's silly, soft, soppy and an absolute dream! #AdoptDontShop

📢*Announcement* Our Call For Papers for our 50th Anniversary Symposium has been extended! Have you visited us and found something interesting you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you and it's not too late: warwick.ac.uk/services/libra… Don't be shy! #MRC50 WarwickHistory

Brentford Health Centre, Hounslow 1938 L.A. Cooper and K.P. Goble buff.ly/3Qc5yYM

(1/6) My open-access article, 'Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain’, has been published by Women's History Review for our LTOM project: doi.org/10.1080/096120…

Back to say recently uncovered this view of Croydon by knocking down a wall in my flat and I think it looks rather good this eve.

In other news... worlds collide when my work colleagues happen to get me a book by my former academic colleagues 🤯 #researchimpact