Cover image of a male hospital in-patient looking directly at the camera, a smiley face tattoo exposed on his arm.
Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖
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Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the
@manchesterup.bsky.social website!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/
Fearghus would be an excellent supervisor!
putting the 'e' into e-mail
"Running for the shelter of her mother's little helper"
From Victorian morphine tonics to 1950s benzos and barbies to millennial wine-o’clock, @ellajglover.bsky.social tells the history of drugs aimed at the “mum market”.
🙏 to @dhbuffalo.bsky.social for the smarts.
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fao @harry-edwards.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to reading and assigning this - @benjamin-bland.bsky.social's new article on music as a site of racial formation (rather than liberal integration) in modern Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...
thanks - no, but will form a chapter of my book eventually!
apparently Paul Betts gave talks in more than 2,000 schools!
this is tomorrow, you can sign-up here: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Leah Betts "Sorted" billboard
Leah Betts "Distorted" postcard
giving a paper on Leah Betts and ordinariness in ‘90s Britain at UCD in a fortnight’s time, 4pm thursday 12 February, in-person/online, all welcome!
more details here: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...
Cover of a book "Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley. Sick jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body." The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a white man with short hair, a gold earring, stubble, glasses, and an oxygen tube. He makes eye contact with the viewer and his mouth is slightly open, perhaps in a smile. His hospital gown is pulled up to reveal both a Kaposi's lesion and a smiley face tattoo.
Table of Contents Introduction Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley PART I – PATHOLOGIES AND POWER IN PRINT Chapter 1 – ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture. The case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Callum Smith Chapter 2 – Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture Rebecca Whiteley Chapter 3 – ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards Georgia Haire PART II – DYING LAUGHING: DEATH, DISFIGUREMENT, DISEASE, AND DISABILITY Chapter 4 – Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour Allison Morehead Chapter 5 – Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique Christine Slobogin Chapter 6 – The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News Jo Michael Rezes Chapter 7 – Irony, assisted dying and The Disabled Avant-Garde Laura Cowley PART III – COMICAL HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS Chapter 8 – ‘Doctor, are you speaking in tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey Jeffrey S. Reznick Chapter 9 – Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s Peder Clark Chapter 10 – Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics Soha Bayoumi
Much needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social
Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC)
And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.
Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Brilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social
This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social
Congrats Malcolm!
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29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
aahhh, the familiar tang of a friday afternoon "after careful consideration..." email
'“There is a generation of young scholars who are finding themselves stuck in what feels like a period of protracted adolescence,” wrote one young academic earlier this year, in a series of blogs on the early career researcher experience published by the Society for the Study of French History.' 1/3
📙 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...
We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here:
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to borrow a line from steve albini, "some of your friends are this fucked"
Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom
@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song
#eahmh25
perhaps best documented by Ted Polhemus' photos, which i used for an article for HWO www.historyworkshop.org.uk/music-sound/...
there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts
I can’t in good faith defend ‘Human Traffic’ as a piece of cinema, but it did make culturally visible an entire lifestyle. John Simms: “To me, it’s like a time capsule: it perfectly captures the end of the 90s. That’s what it was like for millions of people every single weekend.”
