Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians
“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.”
Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter.
“I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”
My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!
I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research.
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OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests.
From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history.
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This is what Ruth Wilson Gilmore called the “organised abandonment” of the poor. www.gov.uk/government/n...
📢New article in JBS!
📗"The 'Asian Mother and Baby Campaign': Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain," by Saima Nasar
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Margot Finn
📣Out now on #firstview!
Anna Muggeridge @worcesteruni.bsky.social and Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Politics of Motherhood in Modern British History'
#Motherhood #Political #Maternal #History #Identity 20thc 🗃️👩🍼
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...
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Safe AI tutoring tools co-created with teachers to be available to schools by the end of 2027, helping to close the attainment gap.
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Journal of British Studies
Cal Horton (they/them)
Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation.
For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition.
With significant negative impacts. 1/2
