Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Golestan Fellow NIAS-KNAW https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/rebecca-wynter/ Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Rebecca Wynter
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This was a race riot.
Families were driven from their homes. People were targeted because of who they are and where they come from.
Words matter. Those who fuel hatred and division bear responsibility too.
We have more in common than that which divides us.
New article! When did #criminology in Britain begin? Where did it come from? @jkivivuori.bsky.social & I explore the forgotten roots of British criminology in a burst of statistical research between the 1830s and 1850s. We show that British Criminology didn't first emerge in the later 1800s...(1/5)
Quakers in Britain has released the following statement on the EHRC's draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act . 👇🕯️❤️
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quaker-response-to-draft-guidance-around-definition-of-sex
This afternoon @royalhistsoc.org hosts its annual meeting of heads of UK #history societies. We'll be joined by representatives of 35 subject societies which support and champion historians and our discipline.
They, and other societies, are a vital part of UK scholarly and civic life #Skystorians
IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast!
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
#skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️
Out today! 🥳 The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... My book with Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social. It is #openaccess so come take a look! cc @uclpress.bsky.social #skystorians #foodhistory
We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas:
- Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection
- Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives
www.bl.uk/services/res...
This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
My 500 year history of disabled people's political activism is out now! Thanks to The Independent for making it their non-fiction book of the month! www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782...
#disabilityhistory
Quakers in Britain statement on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act, which is currently before Parliament.
www.quaker.org.uk
A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time.
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disa...
www.penguin.co.uk
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
uclpress.co.uk
Two funded-fellowship opportunities for early career, postdoctoral researchers.
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.."
This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
