Kicking the Habit
The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@historymartin.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus at De Montfort University, UK, and former Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture. Sport, arts, music, places, statues, plaques, heritage, and more.
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
@garyjames.bsky.social
Historian of sport, focusing on Manchester. Visiting Research Professor at NYU; Honorary Research Fellow at DMU. www.GJFootballArchive.com
@justinepick.bsky.social
Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
@cathfeely.bsky.social
Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
@mhbuwmad.bsky.social
Official account for The Dept. of Medical History & Bioethics. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. https://linktr.ee/mhb_uwmad
@shwardle.bsky.social
Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow. Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling.
@jameskneale.bsky.social
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@christina-c20.bsky.social
Dr Christina Malathouni @LivUniArch, writing Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England (Routledge). @BartlettUCL Alumna. Former @c20society.bsky.social caseworker. Also @Christina_C20.
@soc-researcher.bsky.social
Sociologist and researcher based at the University of Sheffield
@haushoferl.bsky.social
MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) http://shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her
@sportinhistorypod.bsky.social
The Sport in History Podcast brings you the latest research with interviews, talks & seminars with leading sports scholars, up-and-coming researchers & leading experts. Find us here: https://linktr.ee/sportinhistorypodcast
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/ #histmed
@leisure-studies.bsky.social
Multi-disciplinary space for researchers, practitioners & students of Leisure Studies
@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
#EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
@wine18thcirl.bsky.social
Food historian. Independent Researcher. Drinking studies, material culture, gastronomy. Author of "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).
@hornseyhq.bsky.social
Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.
@culturalclare.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, sustainability. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
@natashakbailey.bsky.social
historian and library worker 📚 researching colonial Mexico, Nahua histories, pulque, plant-human relationships
@clairedclark.bsky.social
Health humanist, pragmatist, slow historian (of drugs, medicine) / PhD, MPH / Med school professor / https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53993/do-less-harm?srsltid=AfmBOoqODq-J8jgjniKuRAMajStQIJ6qOko
@mabelwinter.bsky.social
Socio-economic historian of early modern England Everyday history of provisioning | banking and finance | urban and civic politics | projecting and improvement | Postdoc on https://politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/
@bssh.bsky.social
British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
@stevejtaylor.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, long suffering Spurs fan, occasional guitarist
@profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running! Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
@dorotadias.bsky.social
anthropologist/historian: alcohol, drinking culture, excess, addiction, gender. PI in the NCN_PL funded projects www.womenandalcohol.net and www.boundariesofdrinking.pl Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Warsaw
@lshtmhistory.bsky.social
CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
@henryyeomans.bsky.social
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
@craigstafford.bsky.social
British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
@sabineclarke.bsky.social
Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain and places that were once part of its empire. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
@oxmedhum.bsky.social
Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events. https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-h
@lucycogan.bsky.social
UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
@drhick.bsky.social
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
@smawdsley.bsky.social
Historian of modern American medicine and disability Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
@d-oneill.bsky.social
Historian of consumer culture, sport, and public health. Postdoctoral research associate on the @kthabitproject.bsky.social project.
@kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social
Historian of Science and Medicine at the University of Nottingham. Research interests in the history of mental health, public health data and cultural representations of science. www.kevinmatthewjones.com
@punkacademic.bsky.social
Anarchist | Historian | He/him | Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis | Everton | Boston Celtics
@tortietabby.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@profannagreenwood.bsky.social
Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
@annawearsblue.bsky.social
Researcher on Wilberforce Diaries Project, whippet owner, post-it note enthusiast.
@milkwknives.bsky.social
Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social | "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net) https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
@drninastuder.bsky.social
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
The Drinking Studies Network is an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking cultures. We are free to join and welcome all. More info at https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]