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.
I wasn't quite two years old when Linda Persson became the Administrative Secretary for the Social History Society in 1986. She was still in post 28 years later, when I met her at the Society's annual conference in Newcastle. When, a year later, I got more involved with the Society as Communications Officer, a number …
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This is all about women's historic relationship with money. That thought didn't occur to me until quite late in the day. But in many respects that's what my latest academic journal article is all about. In itself, it's further discussion of the means-tested pre-NHS hospital patient payment schemes and the social workers who administered them. …
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 …
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