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Sarah Chaney
@kentishscribbler.bsky.social
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Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)
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On the way home from RCN Congress after a busy day signpainting with Peter Liversidge and @rcnlibraries.bsky.social. So many fantastic placards for our #ArtofNursing exhibition! The sign studio opens again tomorrow and Wed 🪧
A woman in white overalls and cap standing in front of a display of cardboard signs with black painted text: “trust is everything” A group of people learning to paint placards around the artist in white overalls and cap Placards leaning against the wall and drying on the floor. They are painted in black capitals in cardboard including: “nursing is the future” “I blink with you” and “byddwch garedig” Nurse painting a placard on cardboard in black capitals reading “protect mental health nursing”
May 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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From Brian Jarman’s inequality maps of the 1970s to David Widgery’s activism it also gives me hope that the fight to tackle inequality is still out there, even if sadly lacking from the current government agenda. This is not the end of the story!
Exhibition display case in front of a wall panel and map image. Display reads: “Health at the Deep End: Breaking the inverse care law”
May 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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How did I not know Betsi Cadwaladr was buried in Abney Park until today? #HistNursing
Photograph of a woman in a yellow dress standing next to a gravestone in a wooded cemetery
April 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I have grown stuff! (mostly tomatoes) This is a rare achievement and I am now counting the days until they die or the cats eat them 🌱
April 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Being a downright #TypicalHistorian at a music festival
Over-excited 40-something woman with pink and blue hair and black sparkly top pointing at her name on a poster
March 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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From M’Gonigle and Kirby,‘Poverty and Public Health’, 1936. This features in the exhibition I’m curating on health inequalities. Hospital admissions for malnutrition were on the rise even before today’s welfare cuts.
Children may, and in fact not infrequently do, grow up healthily in spite of a bad material environment. They may avoid clinical illnesses due to infections, though exposed to the infections; they may survive, undamaged, illnesses resulting from the invasion of their tissues by pathogenic microorganisms, but they cannot survive unscathed prolonged deprivations or deficiencies of certain essentials for normal nutrition.
March 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Post a warning: My all time favourite from my local chicken shop in Hackney 10+ years ago (I still don’t understand it)
Paper sign on a fridge full of drinks cans next to a chicken fryer. Sign I’m alternate red and blue text reads: “You Can’t Choose Chicken Pieces for Half Price. But if you decide to choose Then Price will be charged full meal price.”
March 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This coming Monday in Woodford: a welcome antidote to the awfulness of politics right now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1281232473...
March 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Only recently discovered Wandsworth Prison Museum exists but it is fascinating. Tiny but fascinating. Here’s the unofficial prison magazine from 1939 www.capcollections.org.uk/business-dir...
Handwritten newspaper style document with coloured drawing in a museum cabinet. Newspaper is called The Tattler
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Seed planting session at the community allotments today, and some tiny daffodils enjoying the sunshine 🌞
Two miniature daffodils in the foreground in a raised bed with blocks of flats behind Five small seed pots with coloured lolly stick labels
March 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Great day talking about nursing and the climate crisis @fulhampalace.bsky.social. The only photo I took was a (lovely) pond, but all the speakers were fantastic. Especially wowed by the idea of zero emission steam from the Museum of Water and Steam which I must now visit!
A small pond in grassland surrounded by hand-pilled stones and logs. Trees and greenhouses in the background
March 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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30 years ago today.💔 I don't remember what I was doing, because Richey's disappearance wasn't made public for about 2 weeks. I did memorise his car numberplate in case he passed me on my way to school though. I still remember it.
Cover of Select magazine from May 1995. Photograph of Richey James on red background reading: 'Richey Manic Vanished: The full story. The last interview'.
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Charlie says take those glasses off! (they ruin nose rubs) #cats
January 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Enjoying revisiting 'Mind Boggling Medical History' for a new project. This was a card game Sally Frampton and I developed where every statement was a current, past or fictional medical theory or practice. Here's an easy one to start with...
Picture of a brain with text on top: "A moving uterus, floating up into the body, causes nervous symptoms in women, such as aches, pains, fainting and paralysis."
January 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hello new followers! Intro time: I’m a historian of medicine and curator, currently working on health inequalities and causes of mental ill-health. Most recent book was “Am I Normal?” (spoiler: the answer is no). profilebooks.com/work/am-i-no...
A black and white cat fast asleep on a spread of books - 8 copies of “Am I Notmal?” translated into different languages
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Are you asleep yet? I have brought you a present.
Close up of a black and white cat on a purple duvet right up near the pillow. He has a large grey stuffed toy mouse in his mouth to present to his human
January 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Hello London. It’s 2025 is it? Happy New Year and all that
January 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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You could cure my tree of its festive syphilis
December 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Poster for Christmas Party. Text reads: STADIUM PLACE TRA and PROJECT ZERO invite you to our joint Christmas Party Watthamstow Stadium Wednesday 13 December, 3-6pm Walthamstow Stadium.Community Hub 63 Parade Gardens, E4 8DF DJ, Karaoke, Games, Festive food & drink www.facebook.com/StadiumPlaceTRA
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Looking very festive at Walthamstow dog stadium, ready for our community Christmas Party on Wed. This is the original tote board from 1932, grade II listed along with the iconic neon frontage. #WalthamForest
Top of wooden upright piano in the foreground with two small Christmas trees either side and two festive baubles between. Behind is a window looking out to a large totaliser display board with coloured numbers for the different dogs racing and movable displays for the odds/results.
December 16, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Really enjoyed the sustainable festive decorations workshop today @rcnlibraries.bsky.social, making Christmas flowers from recycled healthcare packaging #ArtOfNursing @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
A woman sitting at a table covered in craft materials arranging paper leaves. Workshop leader standing and explaining materials Workshop leader standing showing three seated participants how to stick paper leaves together. Craft materials between on table with blue cloth. Close up of hands and brush painting a leaf with red paint. Completed leaves on table in front. Completed decoration with painted leaves on wire twists arranged around a painted ball.
December 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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I hope you and your lovely cat enjoy it! Mine are fond of books too
A black and white cat standing possessively on a blue book on a bed, looking challengingly up at the camera
December 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I don’t know her name – presumably, like me, she was from Kent. I do know she was a patient in the 1870s, when she drew this sketch of Bethlem as a bird cage. Bethlem’s chaplain described his peek inside her sketchbook in 1899, and later used the artist’s cartoon to illustrate talks.
A sketch of a bird cage with some at the top. Birds with human faces are inside the cage, one smoking a pipe. Two men stand either side, while two more human birds fly above
December 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Kentish Scribbler was an anonymous contributor to the Bethlem Hospital magazine, ‘Under the Dome’, from its first published volume in 1892 until her death in 1902 (her obituary appeared in the mag). Find it @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social
Front cover of the Quarterly Magazine of Bethlem Royal Hospital for June 1911, with a sketch of the front of the hospital showing its famous dome
December 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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In memory of Kentish Scribbler (18?? - 1902): A short #SkyStorians #HistPsych 🧵
Blurry close up of a 19th century sketch showing a woman with barred lines over her face on a detailed background
December 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM