of a social historian
This is the miscellaneous category, where you’ll find blog posts on various aspects of social, cultural and political history that sit in some way outside of my usual themes. What you’ll find below ranges from write-ups of history conferences and museum exhibitions to mini-biographies of interesting lives I come across, whether they be LGBT rights or anti-poverty campaigners, diplomats, punk poets and tennis champions.
This year is shaping up to be The Year of Open Access for me. That's not because open access publishing is new to me. The very first time my scholarly work was published was in an open access postgraduate e-journal, now (*gulp*) a decade ago. But this is proving to be a year where my …
Continue reading "Open Access Histories of Payment in Healthcare"
My latest blog post for the People’s History of the NHS website looks at the memories of what it means to pay and not pay for medical care already gathered by the project and calls for more. I’ve spent more than a decade answering a question my Nan asked me. When I was a History student …
Alongside the publication of my new book with Manchester University Press, you'll find an Author Q&A I did for them over at their blog.
