Rebecca Wynter
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️
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Rebecca Wynter
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· Apr 16
fannie lou hamer singing into a microphone with the words if i fall i 'll fall freedom
Alt: fannie lou hamer with microphone, with the words if i fall i'll fall - five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom
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Taps the sign 👉 Nobody's free till everybody's free.
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It’s my latest article
#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Medicine #Countermeasures
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against #CBRN agents @dankaszeta.bsky.social
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When considering CBRN medical countermeasures from the standpoint of defence journalism, three factors emerge. ...
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against #CBRN agents @dankaszeta.bsky.social
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When considering CBRN medical countermeasures from the standpoint of defence journalism, three factors emerge. ...
Frontiers in medical countermeasures against CBRN agents - European Security & Defence
From nerve agent antidotes to radiation sickness treatments, medical countermeasures against CBRN threats remain an oft-overlooked corner of defence spending. This piece examines the current state of ...
euro-sd.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s my latest article
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"Today’s Budget was an opportunity for the government to offer further detail and clarity on the state and finances of the higher education sector, building on the recent White Paper."
Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc
Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc
The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget
The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"Today’s Budget was an opportunity for the government to offer further detail and clarity on the state and finances of the higher education sector, building on the recent White Paper."
Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc
Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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📢 Next week: @globalise.bsky.social Roundtable: The Changing Archive.
How digital tech and AI reshape research on the early modern Indian Ocean world, and what it means to open up the archives.
📅 2 Dec | 10-12 CET | Online
🔗 tinyurl.com/2x998p5a
#DigitalHumanities
@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
How digital tech and AI reshape research on the early modern Indian Ocean world, and what it means to open up the archives.
📅 2 Dec | 10-12 CET | Online
🔗 tinyurl.com/2x998p5a
#DigitalHumanities
@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📢 Next week: @globalise.bsky.social Roundtable: The Changing Archive.
How digital tech and AI reshape research on the early modern Indian Ocean world, and what it means to open up the archives.
📅 2 Dec | 10-12 CET | Online
🔗 tinyurl.com/2x998p5a
#DigitalHumanities
@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
How digital tech and AI reshape research on the early modern Indian Ocean world, and what it means to open up the archives.
📅 2 Dec | 10-12 CET | Online
🔗 tinyurl.com/2x998p5a
#DigitalHumanities
@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.
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This is Teena. She has heard your cotton ball jokes and is not impressed. 12/10 (IG: bichon_punta)
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is Teena. She has heard your cotton ball jokes and is not impressed. 12/10 (IG: bichon_punta)
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These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
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(Once again) this is a Brexit reflection. ‘Global’ Britain was meant to mitigate losses from Brexit and surpass EU membership. That ‘vision’ was based on trade deals and liberalised ‘fair’ immigration. The latter is now being dismantled and the former relies on no defunct liberal multilateralism.
Trade folk (including myself) are unconvinced there is much of a growth dividend for Rachel Reeves from agreements with India, EU, and US. Just as there's no evidence of positive impact from independent UK trade policy since 2021. www.politico.eu/article/rach...
Rachel Reeves hopes trade deals can save Britain’s budget. Economists aren’t convinced.
With a difficult budget looming, the chancellor has increasingly turned her gaze overseas.
www.politico.eu
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
(Once again) this is a Brexit reflection. ‘Global’ Britain was meant to mitigate losses from Brexit and surpass EU membership. That ‘vision’ was based on trade deals and liberalised ‘fair’ immigration. The latter is now being dismantled and the former relies on no defunct liberal multilateralism.
Before numbers, Dutch city buildings had gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, but it could be anything. The tradition persists.
This 1977 tablet marks Bet van Beeren's Cafe t'Mandje, opened 1927. Beeren was an out lesbian and an Amsterdam icon.
#GevelsteenSunday
This 1977 tablet marks Bet van Beeren's Cafe t'Mandje, opened 1927. Beeren was an out lesbian and an Amsterdam icon.
#GevelsteenSunday
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Before numbers, Dutch city buildings had gable stones. Sometimes they said something about the resident, but it could be anything. The tradition persists.
This 1977 tablet marks Bet van Beeren's Cafe t'Mandje, opened 1927. Beeren was an out lesbian and an Amsterdam icon.
#GevelsteenSunday
This 1977 tablet marks Bet van Beeren's Cafe t'Mandje, opened 1927. Beeren was an out lesbian and an Amsterdam icon.
#GevelsteenSunday
Buying #2026 calendars. Want to support artists, but am also not super flush. Looking especially for printmaking, wildlife, nature, landscape. (I usually get an Eric Ravilious and an Angela Harding-type.)
Recommendations please. Self noms welcome. Extra points for UK, Ireland or Netherlands-based.
Recommendations please. Self noms welcome. Extra points for UK, Ireland or Netherlands-based.
a drawing of a calendar that says apr and mar on it
Alt: Animated drawing of a pink calendar on a dark blue background, with pages flicking from January to April
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November 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Buying #2026 calendars. Want to support artists, but am also not super flush. Looking especially for printmaking, wildlife, nature, landscape. (I usually get an Eric Ravilious and an Angela Harding-type.)
Recommendations please. Self noms welcome. Extra points for UK, Ireland or Netherlands-based.
Recommendations please. Self noms welcome. Extra points for UK, Ireland or Netherlands-based.
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
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#OtD 22 Nov 1968 a mass protest was held outside the occupied Yasuda auditorium where students at the University of Tokyo had been on strike since October in a protracted dispute over unpaid internships for medical students and other issues stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9514...
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#OtD 22 Nov 1968 a mass protest was held outside the occupied Yasuda auditorium where students at the University of Tokyo had been on strike since October in a protracted dispute over unpaid internships for medical students and other issues stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9514...
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Call for Statements of Interest - open now!
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Call for Statements of Interest - open now!
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
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We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
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NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…
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Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cornell are having a 44% off sale until December 5th! Buy books including mine… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
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'The economic impact of international students in the UK surged from £31.3 billion in 2018/19 to £41.9 billion by 2021/22. On average, every parliamentary constituency in Britain benefits by £58 million.' 1/3
Which UK regional economies are most reliant on international students? - HEPI
Join HEPI for a webinar on Thursday 11 December 2025 from 10am to 11am to discuss how universities can strengthen the student voice in governance to mark the launch of our upcoming report, Rethinking ...
www.hepi.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
'The economic impact of international students in the UK surged from £31.3 billion in 2018/19 to £41.9 billion by 2021/22. On average, every parliamentary constituency in Britain benefits by £58 million.' 1/3
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How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.