Emeritus Professor Hilary Marland’s latest article, ‘Like sausages in a sausage machine’: medical resistance to the dehumanisation of obstetrics in postwar Britain (Morris 1960, 913)', has been published in Medical Humanities: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
We've launched our project's Digital Map, which lets people submit sports-branded memorabilia from 1960 onward. We welcome clothes, programmes, toys, posters, photographs, etc. Your submissions will help us map the history of unhealthy sponsorship to create a shared public resource!
📙 My book has been longlisted for the BSHS (British Society for the History of Science) Pickstone Prize!
I'd also like to thank Dr Harriet Palfreyman and Dr Beth Parkes for their kind book reviews in both:
📘 Technology and Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journa...
📕 Social History: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03071022.2025.2543632
📚 And just when a box of the paperbacks arrived (still free to download/open access): www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgsps.bsky.social
📕 Delighted to present all things SSHM through the new Gazette newsletter - including several insightful reports on last year's supported conferences: sshm.org/cp/
If you would like to share your CfPs or other events/networks via the SSHM website and The Gazette, feel free to email or message me ✍
Dr Fabiola Creed
Dr Fabiola Creed
Dr Fabiola Creed
If you're interested in learning about the history of tobacco sponsorship in British sport, you're in luck! @d-oneill.bsky.social has written all about it in a great blog (linked below). Stay tuned for mine & @fabiolacreed.bsky.social upcoming blogs about alcohol and gambling sponsorship.
Dr Fabiola Creed
Dr Fabiola Creed
Jamie Banks
Next up in our series of project blogs, Jamie (@milkwknives.bsky.social) explores the history of alcohol sponsorship in British sport. You can read about it below:
kickingthehabit.uk/blog/adverti...
Whilst you’re there, check out our digital map too!:
kickingthehabit.uk/digital-map/
We held our first project workshop @lshtm.bsky.social a fortnight ago. If you're interested in finding out more about it, as well as some of the wonderful papers we had the pleasure of hearing, you can read the blog on our website below:
kickingthehabit.uk/blog/kicking...
Excellent project led by our gambling harms experts @fabiolacreed.bsky.social @shwardle.bsky.social with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social that's asking the public to share their branded sports memorabilia - please help out and shatre!
In the first of three blogs exploring each of the project’s strands, @d-oneill.bsky.social takes us through a short history of tobacco sponsorship in British professional sport.
Read more about Dan’s research here: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/cavalie...
In contrast to tobacco, the genesis of alcohol sponsorship in British sport stemmed from market forces rather than legislative necessity. Against a backdrop
Smoking remains a pressing public health issue in Britain, with the NHS estimating that there were 74,600 deaths attributable to smoking in England in 2019
In the first of three blogs exploring each of the project’s strands, @d-oneill.bsky.social takes us through a short history of tobacco sponsorship in British professional sport.
Read more about Dan’s research here: kickingthehabit.uk/blog/cavalie...
Conferences Supported by SSHM in 2025 15-16 November, ‘Representing, Reshaping Reenacting’, Charité Museum of Medical History in Berlin.6-7 November, ‘War, Trauma and Emotional In…
Smoking remains a pressing public health issue in Britain, with the NHS estimating that there were 74,600 deaths attributable to smoking in England in 2019
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-...
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 Gazette is back! With a new look and new editor @fabiolacreed.bsky.social
With members' reports from global #histmed conferences in 2025.
Plus latest issue of Social History of Medicine and book in the Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
