Claire L Jones
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Visually, the best venue for a night of punk rock (although acoustics not great)
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Visually, the best venue for a night of punk rock (although acoustics not great)
Writing update: I have some words but they not necessarily any good or in the right order
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Writing update: I have some words but they not necessarily any good or in the right order
Lambrini Girls tonight. Hell yes!
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lambrini Girls tonight. Hell yes!
Evergreen!
I mean, why do people continue to believe those who have a track record of being completely wrong about pretty much everything?
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Evergreen!
Tomorrow is the day. At last, I can give back to the school the crumbling bottle of 20 year old fizz that I won at last year's Christmas fair tombola
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tomorrow is the day. At last, I can give back to the school the crumbling bottle of 20 year old fizz that I won at last year's Christmas fair tombola
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🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform.
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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It really is disgusting. Tice is an expert in neurodiversity now is he?
I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It really is disgusting. Tice is an expert in neurodiversity now is he?
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Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).
Project MUSE - The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America
muse.jhu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).
I literally cannot read one book at a time when researching, I just endless follow up footnotes until I have 50 books open at once.....
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I literally cannot read one book at a time when researching, I just endless follow up footnotes until I have 50 books open at once.....
Watched The Big Short again last night. Such a good film. But it still blows my mind that the world basically relies on large scale gambling
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Watched The Big Short again last night. Such a good film. But it still blows my mind that the world basically relies on large scale gambling
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heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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The BSHS Pickstone Prize
The BSHS Pickstone Prize is awarded every two years to the best scholarly book in the history of science (broadly construed) in English. The Prize aims to recognize pioneering works that advance the s...
www.bshs.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
heads up #histSTM people - nominations are open for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize - best scholarly book (in English) published in the last 2 years. Don't assume your publisher will nominate you, be proactive about your book or books you love!
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I had a dream that a salsa orchestra had set up outside my house and was playing extremely loud tunes at 5.30am. I went out to complain and they said I should speak to Chris Rea. Why?!
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I had a dream that a salsa orchestra had set up outside my house and was playing extremely loud tunes at 5.30am. I went out to complain and they said I should speak to Chris Rea. Why?!
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Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
sshm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Starting to look like Trump might be a bit of wrong un. Time will tell.
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Starting to look like Trump might be a bit of wrong un. Time will tell.
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me, sending this video the morning after having drank eighteen pints and been thrown out of the pub for shitting myself, to the groupchat of surly, silent male friends I message listlessly everyday about football transfers: me last night 😜
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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So do people submit their book proposals to multiple presses at a time? I didn't think that was good etiquette but tbh I have no idea.....
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
So do people submit their book proposals to multiple presses at a time? I didn't think that was good etiquette but tbh I have no idea.....
T. Twistington Higgins. New favourite doctor's name just dropped
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
T. Twistington Higgins. New favourite doctor's name just dropped
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📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected]
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected]
More info coming soon!
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected]
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected]
More info coming soon!
'Please reply directly to me and not the list'
600 reply alls come in......
600 reply alls come in......
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
'Please reply directly to me and not the list'
600 reply alls come in......
600 reply alls come in......
The characters at Euston station. Could sit here all day people watching
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The characters at Euston station. Could sit here all day people watching
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Only right wing people are real. And that has always been true. Even the union members and activists were right wing, because they were in the olden days. In black and white and flat caps. The wokes don’t want you to know that. Of course. It makes sense now.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Help please why is writing so hard
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Help please why is writing so hard
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Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them.
I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA.
We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?
I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA.
We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?
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 10:20 AM
Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them.
I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA.
We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?
I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA.
We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?
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Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like.
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council
Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like.
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time