Helen Goodman
@helengoodman.bsky.social
Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, and psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health and the body ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ domestic abuse ∣ grief ∣ fibromyalgia
UK
UK
Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
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There is no ceasefire only people pretending there’s a ceasefire.
Meet Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Asi, two brothers ages 8 and 10 who crossed Israel's "yellow line" as they gathered firewood for their injured father in Bani Suheila, Khan Younis. Israel deemed these children a "threat" and killed them in a drone attack.
Is this the ceasefire of which we speak?
Is this the ceasefire of which we speak?
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
There is no ceasefire only people pretending there’s a ceasefire.
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Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
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These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Starmer's record:
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
We’re challenging Starmer on climate failure
As Keir Starmer heads for Brazil, his government is failing to meet the challenge of global heating – so we’re taking legal action.
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starmer's record:
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests
🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge
🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field)
🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion
🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
'CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE'
- international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...
- international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
'CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE'
- international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...
- international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...
In the year to March 2025, a prisoner was accidentally released more days than not - 262, ‘up from 115 the previous year. The Labour government has repeatedly attacked the Tories for leaving them a broken justice system.’
Police ‘urgently’ looking for prisoner freed by mistake in London
Police ‘urgently’ looking for prisoner freed by mistake in London
Algerian man, 24, ‘released in error’ from HMP Wandsworth two days after stronger checks for jails were brought in
Police have launched an urgent manhunt for a second asylum-seeking prisoner mistakenly freed, two days after the justice secretary, David Lammy, brought in stronger checks for jails.
The 24-year-old Algerian was wrongly released from Wandsworth prison in south London last Wednesday, with the Metropolitan police only informed this week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In the year to March 2025, a prisoner was accidentally released more days than not - 262, ‘up from 115 the previous year. The Labour government has repeatedly attacked the Tories for leaving them a broken justice system.’
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This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
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Two stories from the same day, same source of wealth. Worlds apart...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Two stories from the same day, same source of wealth. Worlds apart...
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
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📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!
Closing date: 11 December 2025
For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!
Closing date: 11 December 2025
For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!
Closing date: 11 December 2025
For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!
Closing date: 11 December 2025
For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
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Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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"Servitude and Its Legacies" promises to be a productive and useful and other synonyms of "of great service" (that I didn't look up!) with Annabelle Miller, Susan Zlotnick, Daniel Kasper, & Victoria Baugh at #NAVSA2025
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"Servitude and Its Legacies" promises to be a productive and useful and other synonyms of "of great service" (that I didn't look up!) with Annabelle Miller, Susan Zlotnick, Daniel Kasper, & Victoria Baugh at #NAVSA2025
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Additional Facts:
Victorians carved turnip lanterns on All Hallows’ Eve to ward off Jack’s restless spirit.
When Irish immigrants brought this tradition to America, they discovered that pumpkins were far easier to carve and the modern Jack-o’-lantern was born.
#Victorian #Halloween #history
Victorians carved turnip lanterns on All Hallows’ Eve to ward off Jack’s restless spirit.
When Irish immigrants brought this tradition to America, they discovered that pumpkins were far easier to carve and the modern Jack-o’-lantern was born.
#Victorian #Halloween #history
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Additional Facts:
Victorians carved turnip lanterns on All Hallows’ Eve to ward off Jack’s restless spirit.
When Irish immigrants brought this tradition to America, they discovered that pumpkins were far easier to carve and the modern Jack-o’-lantern was born.
#Victorian #Halloween #history
Victorians carved turnip lanterns on All Hallows’ Eve to ward off Jack’s restless spirit.
When Irish immigrants brought this tradition to America, they discovered that pumpkins were far easier to carve and the modern Jack-o’-lantern was born.
#Victorian #Halloween #history
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Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
‘More recently, the Free Contraception Scheme allows women aged 17 to 35 access contraception with ease. “That’s great. To think you had all that fuss years ago,” Ms McGee said of the change.’ What about those outside that age bracket?
May McGee was such a courageous woman and had a huge impact. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. RIP.
Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
‘More recently, the Free Contraception Scheme allows women aged 17 to 35 access contraception with ease. “That’s great. To think you had all that fuss years ago,” Ms McGee said of the change.’ What about those outside that age bracket?
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This is one of a series of daily cholera returns for September 1866 that survive within the records of the Cardiff Poor Law Union.
When asked to comment on the sanitary condition of the locality, medical attendant Edward Hill has noted ‘Abominable, a marvel that cholera is ever absent’.
When asked to comment on the sanitary condition of the locality, medical attendant Edward Hill has noted ‘Abominable, a marvel that cholera is ever absent’.
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is one of a series of daily cholera returns for September 1866 that survive within the records of the Cardiff Poor Law Union.
When asked to comment on the sanitary condition of the locality, medical attendant Edward Hill has noted ‘Abominable, a marvel that cholera is ever absent’.
When asked to comment on the sanitary condition of the locality, medical attendant Edward Hill has noted ‘Abominable, a marvel that cholera is ever absent’.