Kicking the Habit

Help us collect images of unhealthy tobacco, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in sport since 1960! Our new website is live!

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Share Your Memorabilia - Kicking The Habit Do you have any memorabilia related to unhealthy sports sponsorship in Britain from the 1960s onwards that you are willing to share?

We're delighted to announce the launch of our project website! This includes a Digital Map, using public submissions to chart ‘addictive sponsorship’ in British sport through branded memorabilia. Please visit us/circulate widely/repost/make a submission!

kickingthehabit.uk/memorabilia-...

Exciting News! The project's very own @d-oneill.bsky.social will be talking about tobacco sponsorship in F1 and its associated public health challenges at the Silverstone Museum next weekend. Do consider attending if interested. Info is in the linked post.

REMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.

Thanks so much for the kind words, Martin. On behalf of the KtH team, we all just wanted to say thank you for coming yesterday. We really appreciated your insights, and are looking forward to your input as the project develops!

In particular, many thanks to: @jamesnicholls.bsky.social, @historymartin.bsky.social, @robinireland.bsky.social, Fiona Dobbie, Virginia Berridge, David Beckingham, and Lauren Fisher (from Sporting Chance).

Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.

REMINDER: There’s just under a month left until the CfP for 'Historicising CDoH' closes. Please do share & circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025 if you’re interested.

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

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CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

This 6-year interdisciplinary project is held at
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Led by PIs @profannagreenwood.bsky.social @alexmold.bsky.social @shwardle.bsky.social

PDRAs @milkwknives.bsky.social @d-oneill.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social

Kicking the Habit: 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025 Today's post comes to us from the Wellcome-funded project, "Kicking the Habit." Read on for the biographies of the impressive team of historians leading this project and a preview of the research to c...

You can also read the blog below on POINTS:
www.pointshistory.org/post/kicking...

Thanks to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for posting a blog introducing our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis.

Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

The researchers (@kthabitproject.bsky.social) leading the Wellcome-funded ‘Kicking the Habit’ project introduce us to its key themes, socio-historical contexts, and guiding ambitions.

@kthabitproject.bsky.social

thepolyphony.org/2025/04/04/k...