✨CALL FOR PAPERS✨ History and/as social science 1.5 Day workshop UofG Soc & Pol Sci University of Glasgow exploring the teaching of history as/in social sciences. Deadline 14 March. Details below (inc alt text). Please share! ✨ Royal Historical Society History UK UofGlasgow ESH

My new article, '“Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: Postnatal Depression Narratives, Treatment and Reception on BBC Radio, 1946–1985', explores changing attitudes to motherhood, radio as health comms, women's voices, and medics' expanding responsibilities: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Women in Media Scotland ✨ What a delight to speak on the panel of the first ever WIMS event created by the lovely 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊 Connected with some amazing people smashing it in the audio and podcast world and can’t wait for the next one 🤍

Are you interested in hosting CAGR in 2026? If so, please register you interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… (Form will be open for one more week) Thanks

✨NEW PUBLICATION✨ I’m thrilled that my article “unmarried women’s experiences of accessing the pill in Scotland c.1968-1980” is now available OPEN ACCESS via SHM. It draws on 31 #oralhistory testimonies and extensive archival research. #reprojustice academic.oup.com/shm/advance-ar…

Here's our first blog post on a fantastic Wellcome funded project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. Delighted to be working with such a great team!

Points introduces our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis pointshistory.org/post/kicking-t… Funded by Wellcome A&D History

Creative practice research: Georgia Poplett's three prose collages combine acrostic poetics with surrealist erasure techniques, exploring the lived experience of postpartum psychosis. thepolyphony.org/2025/04/17/adv…

Our Annual Conference returns! All welcome to attend this two-day showcase of exciting postgraduate research from the Warwick History Department

London friends - a reminder that on Tuesday I’m going to be at the amazing Pelican House discussing my book Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain with John Merrick Details on this beautiful poster below. Here’s a link for (free) tickets. pelicanhouse.org/event/liverpoo…

The proposed regeneration in its current form has a significant social and emotional impact on families… here are some resident reactions including LU’s views.. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

So many brilliant speakers are lined up for Shame&Medicine end-of-project conference - speaker bios and abstracts are now available : shameandmedicine.org/wp-content/upl… Registration closes for the dinner this week, and on the 2nd June for the conference. store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-an…

Register! Shame&Medicine in Literature seminar A perfect lunchtime break tomorrow - 4th June 2025, 13.00 – 14.00 BST Dr Kaye Mitchell, Manchester University Shame, Femininity, and the ‘Sick Woman’ eventbrite.co.uk/e/shame-femini… #shame #shameandmedicine #seminar Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

A home is not just a physical, built shell where we live. It is where we dwell in the world, a lesson that local government has repeatedly failed to learn. My new piece on home and regeneration in #Ladywood for Chris Smith thenewmidlands.org.uk/home-regenerat…

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

REMINDER: There’s just under a month left until the CfP for 'Historicising CDoH' closes. Please do share & circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025 if you’re interested.

Something really exciting . Wednesday 1 st October BBC Radio 4 9.30am. All episodes available on BBC Sounds from release. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…