Ruth Beecher
@ruthbeecher.bsky.social
Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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Don't miss today's webinar on researcher safety and vicarious trauma!
Don't miss next week's C-REX/CANSES webinar: "Researcher Safety and Vicarious Trauma: Recommendations for Universities, Supervisors, and Researchers" with Clare McKendry, moderated by @audreygagnon.bsky.social. Nov. 20, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CET), Online www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Researcher Safety and Vicarious Trauma: Recommendations for Universities, Supervisors, and Researchers
- C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Clare McKendry, University of Waterloo
www.sv.uio.no
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Don't miss today's webinar on researcher safety and vicarious trauma!
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What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Yaay!
Thanks to a wonderful donation of original Bulletin journals I am digitising UKAHNs archive. Autumn 1985 no 5 is available. bulletin.ukahn.org/autumn-1984-... #histnursing
Autumn 1984, No 5 – The UKAHN Bulletin: ISSN 2049-9744
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July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yaay!
Seen this one @georgesevers.bsky.social ?? Looks excellent!
My article is on the history of Positively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA), a London-based community group which worked with Irish people affected by HIV/AIDS & their families. Thanks to PIAA members for speaking with me & for their important work. And Wellcome for funding. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
Project MUSE - Positively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA): HIV and AIDS Activism and the Irish Diaspora in London, ca. 1989–1996
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July 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Seen this one @georgesevers.bsky.social ?? Looks excellent!
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Two postdoc positions are available on the Wellcome-funded project "Between Deception and Dissent: regulating unproven, disproven and misleading health-related claims". www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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July 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Two postdoc positions are available on the Wellcome-funded project "Between Deception and Dissent: regulating unproven, disproven and misleading health-related claims". www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...
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You can read more about Virginia Prince and her role developing the distinction between sex and gender in Emily's longer journal article 🗃️
Currently available Open Access in Issue 99 of History Workshop Journal.
Currently available Open Access in Issue 99 of History Workshop Journal.
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
You can read more about Virginia Prince and her role developing the distinction between sex and gender in Emily's longer journal article 🗃️
Currently available Open Access in Issue 99 of History Workshop Journal.
Currently available Open Access in Issue 99 of History Workshop Journal.
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We would love to see you at the launch of Ruth Beecher’s new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s, exploring the different ways doctors, health visitors, and mental health practitioners responded to child sexual abuse.
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We would love to see you at the launch of Ruth Beecher’s new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s, exploring the different ways doctors, health visitors, and mental health practitioners responded to child sexual abuse.
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Tuesday 8th July; 18.30; the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London.
Book your free ticket here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Book your free ticket here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Book Launch Ruth Beecher
Join us to celebrate Ruth Beecher's new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Tuesday 8th July; 18.30; the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London.
Book your free ticket here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Book your free ticket here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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We started the week by attending a great talk by @jennycrane.bsky.social about her new book on gifted children. So child-centred, totally mesmerising and we can't wait to read it. It's at OUP and it's open access - hurray! #histchild #histeduc
May 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We started the week by attending a great talk by @jennycrane.bsky.social about her new book on gifted children. So child-centred, totally mesmerising and we can't wait to read it. It's at OUP and it's open access - hurray! #histchild #histeduc
You only have 32 hours and 16 mins to wait for Prof Sameena Mulla's public lecture. Tix are free but please book in advance.
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April 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
You only have 32 hours and 16 mins to wait for Prof Sameena Mulla's public lecture. Tix are free but please book in advance.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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@bbkhistorical.bsky.social @rshc.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @shcy.bsky.social
Only 54 hrs 59 mins before the wonderful Professor Sameena Mulla gives what will be an enlightening and empathetic public lecture in London about race, racism, mothers, the family, violence and the US court system. Book a free ticket here. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
April 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Only 54 hrs 59 mins before the wonderful Professor Sameena Mulla gives what will be an enlightening and empathetic public lecture in London about race, racism, mothers, the family, violence and the US court system. Book a free ticket here. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
April 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Only 54 hrs 59 mins before the wonderful Professor Sameena Mulla gives what will be an enlightening and empathetic public lecture in London about race, racism, mothers, the family, violence and the US court system. Book a free ticket here. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Can't wait for this public lecture by the wonderful Sameena Mulla, only 6 days to go. Don't forget to book your free place.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Can't wait for this public lecture by the wonderful Sameena Mulla, only 6 days to go. Don't forget to book your free place.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
5.5 years job with a really interesting focus, now you’re talking.
🚨Job Klaxon🚨
Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project!
The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration.
Deadline 31 March 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project!
The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration.
Deadline 31 March 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
5.5 years job with a really interesting focus, now you’re talking.
A 3-months-long job for y’all. Tough times.
🌟 Research Opportunity Alert! 🌟 The Bodleian Libraries are seeking a Research Consultant.
For more information (including how to apply) please refer to our Linked In post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
For more information (including how to apply) please refer to our Linked In post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
🌟 Research Opportunity Alert! 🌟 The Bodleian Libraries are seeking a… | The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
🌟 Research Opportunity Alert! 🌟 The Bodleian Libraries are seeking a Research Consultant.
The Bodleian Libraries is a research-active organisation within…
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March 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A 3-months-long job for y’all. Tough times.
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After last week’s Newcastle extravaganza we’re keen to think about *how* to write about internationalism(s) (& how not to), about the forgotten voices & sources & archives & readers. If you have been thinking about these questions do send us a short abstract by 5 May @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.
March 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
After last week’s Newcastle extravaganza we’re keen to think about *how* to write about internationalism(s) (& how not to), about the forgotten voices & sources & archives & readers. If you have been thinking about these questions do send us a short abstract by 5 May @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
On my read as soon as you can list!!
New book! I explore how voluntary organisations, psychologists, and policymakers have sought to identify "gifted children", and to mobilise these perceivedly hyperintelligent individuals to benefit (various visions of) "the world". . .
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March 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
On my read as soon as you can list!!
Don't forget to sign up to our mailing list - we will have our newsletter and our first project event coming up soon. Thanks to @joannabourke.bsky.social for the endorsement :)
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February 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Don't forget to sign up to our mailing list - we will have our newsletter and our first project event coming up soon. Thanks to @joannabourke.bsky.social for the endorsement :)
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Talking with Irish historians Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe about their views on Irish history-writing, their recent work and book and how they first became interested in gender studies #skystorians #irishhistory newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-red...
September 16, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Talking with Irish historians Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe about their views on Irish history-writing, their recent work and book and how they first became interested in gender studies #skystorians #irishhistory newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-red...
February 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Final call for NI #CSASurvivors mother and baby himes and Magdalen institutions
A final call has been made for survivors of former mother and baby home and Magdalen institutions in Northern Ireland to come forward and give testimony.
NI mother-and-baby home survivors urged to give testimony
A final call has been made for survivors of former mother and baby home and Magdalen institutions in Northern Ireland to come forward and give testimony.
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February 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Final call for NI #CSASurvivors mother and baby himes and Magdalen institutions
The very courageous Paula Doyle was on Morning Ireland just now, speaking out on the additional harms caused by the CJS after she was raped by someone she knew.
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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I couldn’t let this monster get away with it’: how I survived rape – and sent my attacker to prison
Paula Doyle was raped by a man she had known for years. It took five painful years for the case to come to trial, but she was determined to fight for justice
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February 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The very courageous Paula Doyle was on Morning Ireland just now, speaking out on the additional harms caused by the CJS after she was raped by someone she knew.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#histchild #historyofeducation #histmed Seeking articles/books on histories of ‘maladjusted’ children/ residential schools for children who had emotional/behavioural problems. Any refs/leads welcome and happy to reciprocate with refs I have
February 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#histchild #historyofeducation #histmed Seeking articles/books on histories of ‘maladjusted’ children/ residential schools for children who had emotional/behavioural problems. Any refs/leads welcome and happy to reciprocate with refs I have
Fantastic article by Michaela Kalcher on revolution, terror and trauma in the life of an ordinary man who lived through the French Revolution and the Terror. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary
Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history. Born in 1724 in the Champenois village of Evergnicourt, he married but remained chil
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January 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Fantastic article by Michaela Kalcher on revolution, terror and trauma in the life of an ordinary man who lived through the French Revolution and the Terror. academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...