Jenny Crane

Big thanks to @histchildoxford.bsky.social for providing this platform, and allowing Buse to share her work!

Revisiting the Gifted Child in England: Emotional Memory, Recognition, and Healing in Adult Testimonies Buse Demirkan (PhD candidate, University of Bristol)

First piece out by @busedp.bsky.social, about growing up 'gifted' - well done Buse! She's still recruiting also for interviewees, link in the blog - www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/revi...

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I'm excited and I want to hear more about it! ✨

Honoured to have another really interesting and engaged review of my latest book journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And the discount code below still works - I'd love to talk more about this research if anyone wants a seminar, teaching visit, etc!

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni

“Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

Wonderful thank you! The sale price only appears once you add it to your basket for some reason! Jenny

Manchester University Press - Posters, protests, and prescriptions Posters, protests, and prescriptions - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Posters, protests, and prescriptions by Jennifer Crane

My co-edited book, Posters, protests, and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain, is £18 in the MUP January sale! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163462/ I would LOVE to see it used in teaching and am always happy to chat about its wonderful chapters!

My book is a bargain right now, especially as printed in colour! MUP sale runs to end of the month ("discount will apply automatically at checkout, unless based in North America. North American customers, please enter discount code JAN40 at checkout"): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168511/

If you've been thinking of buying Electric Wind, now would be a very good time - it's only £11.40 in the MUP sale!

Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Mingcan Rong (2025) entitled: 'Cultivating Scientific Authority: A Vegetal Geography of Chinese Rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' with an orange banner at the top. This paper presents a vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), examining the mechanisms through which RBGE's scientific authority is established in the field of Rhododendron research and conservation. Building on the geographical conceptualisation of relational plant agency, this paper extends it by illustrating that attending to the rhododendron–people–environment relationship sheds light on the ecological–political nature of the Rhododendron species at RBGE, the broader historical contexts that stimulate the accumulation, and the environmental conditions that encourage the maintenance. Drawing on interviews, observation and document analysis, I illustrate the contribution and labour of the underappreciated Chinese collectors in the historical botanical exploration, discuss rhododendron's ‘plantiness’ and examine RBGE's contemporary activities that aim to accumulate and sustain the ex situ rhododendrons both materially and epistemically. I argue that the scientific authority of RBGE has been shaped by the semi-colonial history of China after the First Opium War ending in 1842, the encounters between British botanists and local collectors, as well as RBGE's intentional accumulation and maintenance of rhododendrons and related knowledge, all of which are mediated by rhododendrons' agency and continue to influence today's conservation dynamics.

🌺New in Geo🌺

'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Congratulations @mingcan-rong.bsky.social! Wonderful, can't wait to read!

Is your child texting about Buckinghamshire Archives? Here are the signs to look out for:

BRB: Buckinghamshire records, blimey
LOL: Lots of ledgers
SMH: Some medieval holdings
WTF: Where's that folder?
ROFL: Researching our former lacemaking
IDC: Is Duke corrupt?
BTW: Big trees, Wendover

SSHM 2026: In/Out Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...

~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)

sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Today, 3PM!

Planetary Health Interdisciplinary presentations and discussions focusing on the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.

On Weds 22 Oct, there's an exciting interdisciplinary conversation about 'Planetary Health' at UCL.
I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine.

All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must:

tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby

Building on some fantastic conversations for the podcast, between practising medics and humanities scholars, the launch event will leave lots of time for questions, reflections, discussion.

We've had fantastic enthusiasm and expert advice from the journal editors throughout, and also from the @bmj.com's Medical Humanities podcast, which we recorded earlier this week - huge thanks to Sabina Dosani, Sarah Ahmed, and the production team, as well as to wonderful authors and peer reviewers.

Poster for an online launch 'charity and children's hospitals - exceptionalism, experiences and welfare', 23 October, 3PM, https://bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259

New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:

mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .

bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Nice one! Amazing research! ✨

📙 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...

Photo of the biannual PGR/ecr health geography conference, in the old council chambers of university of Bristol

Photo of the biannual PGR/ecr health geography conference, in the old council chambers of university of Bristol

What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social

Lovely to chat all things public engagement and impact this afternoon ☺️ Looking forward to a fab set of talks tomorrow 🙌 @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The poster for the event discussed. It features various photographs and drawings from John Addington Symonds' life, such as a photograph of him on a sledge and a drawing of his dog.

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre