The most electrifying scholar working in skateboard studies today!
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
Dan O'Neill
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
Dr Fabiola Creed
We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Check out our project's beautiful new website! Please share, and, if you can, submit any memorabilia connected to unhealthy sport sponsorship to our digital map.
Dan O'Neill
Peter Mandler
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The BMJ
I'll be presenting at @silverstonemuseum.bsky.social on Saturday 18 October as part of their annual research forum. Hear me talk about the history of tobacco sponsorship in Formula One and the challenges this posed for public health. Info and tickets here: www.silverstonemuseum.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
🛹 Don’t Kill Kenny!
Nearly 2,000 people have signed a petition urging Lambeth Council not to abandon the plans to restore Kennington Park’s historic skatebowl 'The Kenny' (1978), as C20 Society has backed the grassroots campaign.
✍🏼Sign and share the petition: www.change.org/p/save-kenni...
www.silverstonemuseum.co.uk
Join Silverstone Museum’s Research Forum celebrating 75 years of Formula 1, featuring expert talks, museum exhibition access, and refreshments.
REMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.
C20 Society
We're delighted to announce the launch of our project website! This includes a Digital Map, using public submissions to chart ‘addictive sponsorship’ in British sport through branded memorabilia. Please visit us/circulate widely/repost/make a submission!
kickingthehabit.uk/memorabilia-...
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
We're delighted to announce the launch of our project website! This includes a Digital Map, using public submissions to chart ‘addictive sponsorship’ in British sport through branded memorabilia. Please visit us/circulate widely/repost/make a submission!
kickingthehabit.uk/memorabilia-...
Do you have any memorabilia related to unhealthy sports sponsorship in Britain from the 1960s onwards that you are willing to share?
ничего особенного but i wrote a commentary for memory studies on the relationship between skateboarding and imperialism (russian and epistemic)
doi.org/10.1177/1750...
Kicking the Habit
Kicking the Habit
Do you have any memorabilia related to unhealthy sports sponsorship in Britain from the 1960s onwards that you are willing to share?
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
