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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18h

Also isn’t wading through papers sort of the point when you are doing a systemic review

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 1d

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
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SSHM 2026: In/Out

Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 1d

@bvigeant.bsky.social @decafjedi.com OK, gentlemen. For your consideration - the advent calendar aisle. Includes one that is 24 liquorice pipes.

Advent calendars at a local Føtex, Denmark. Includes KitKat, M&Ms, Oreos, and Skipper's Pipes.

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 2d

It's been said that you can judge a culture by the ads they have.

So tell me why most TikTok ads I see here in the UK are just baked beans.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 3d

I have uploaded the Swedish anarchist periodicals "Röda Fanor" and "Under Röd Flagg" to archive.org. They will soon be linked to the list of digitized anarchist periodicals (LIDIAP) website as well.

archive.org/details/@ola...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 3d

We rightly criticise the credulity of some Western leftists for seeing everyone in the Americas who opposes US hegemony as a comrade, but there’s a similarly naive kind of liberal who is equally hostile to left and right populism alike and oblivious to legacies of colonialism and economic warfare.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 4d

Pre social media people used to make websites for Dougs to hang out with Dougs! Same for Shirlenes, Geoffreys, Susan Parkers... I dug up a bunch of them on the wayback machine (thread!!!)

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 5d

*natalieportman.jpeg*

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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below:
Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM

This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

📙 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...

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 7d

And when that happens "we're spending far too much on asylums" (source: the 60s)

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 8d

2010s retro

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 8d

Falling vaccination rates coming back into the news, is it?

The shameless plugs will cease when the MMR vaccination rate is back over 95%.

bit.ly/2RUPYUN

Book cover for Gareth Millward, Vaccinating Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017). The image is of a syringe and a 1950s vial of vaccine.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 8d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, at that stage of their careers, it looked like Phil would go on to be the more successful thirst trap.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 8d

My most charitable reading of this is that some people think "anxiety" is like "flu" (people colloquially use the term for an actual, very serious condition when they mean something milder, blunting the effect of the diagnosis).

But that's not it. They're just arseholes.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8d

"Welfare system should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice... that’s why we will stop benefits for anxiety" Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary for State, work and pensions. Daily Mail.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 8d

I think you'd enjoy the Swedish-Danish film Häxan (if you haven't already seen it). 1920s silent horror, probably one that historians of (imaginations of) witchcraft and medicine should see.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!

The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 8d

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

Free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025

Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 8d

labour are like a referee who booked someone in the first five minutes for a 50/50 challenge and the game is now spiralling out of control and they’ve sent off over four hundred players

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 10d

That's the joke.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 10d

VAR favouring Arsenal again..

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