Andrew Burchell
Historian of UK but living in Sweden - working on stammering, patient organisations, diabetes and rheumatism. actdisease.org
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellWe are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026 mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
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- Gorton and Denton really matters for the entire country. It's the Green Party Vs Reform. I spoke to the Standard about how we're making hope normal again. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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- Reposted by Andrew Burchell📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellWe're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
- In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellOur media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account. Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late. www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellHappy for Gen Z that they get their own Mandelson scandal.
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellBolton: The Happiest Town on Earth? In the 1930s MO asked he people of Bolton "What is happiness to you and yours?". In this episode researchers knock on the doors of those who live in the same spot as the original correspondents, hearing their reflections on happiness www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellJohn Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts
- 🚨🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨🚨 The right wing should be worried about young men. Unlike Europe and the US, British young men are swinging wildly behind progressive parties. Some thoughts on why, and why most of the right are ignoring it. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellOn almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
- This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellFeel free to mute me if you get tired of seeing me talking about my book over the next few months but BEFORE YOU DO, I just wanted to point out that the fantastic Francis Spufford has very kindly said that it 'gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation' 🥂🥂🥂
- Reposted by Andrew Burchellpart of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellOMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.
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- As a Brit living in Sweden (and always perplexed by the reverence shown to the NP) I keep circling back to the point that the prizes only exist because Nobel was an *arms dealer* and did not want later generations to *remember* that he was an arms dealer.
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- And his 'August 1968' (ironically enough about the Soviet suppression of the Prague Spring).
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellThe ferocity with which the vile phrase “a biological male who identifies as a woman” is being embedded across multiple media in Britain is horrifying. It shows how quickly support for eliminationist attacks against trans and gender diverse people is being solidified
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellMakes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???
- "Let him have it" in the Derek Bentley sense, or...?
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- Reposted by Andrew Burchell"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellMissing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellBrilliant new article by @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social on glue-sniffing panics, youth boredom and deindustrialising towns c. 1970s-80s, published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social This began life as an exceptional MA dissertation at @uclhistory.bsky.social Congrats Malcolm! doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellIn 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellDeadline to submit your proposals is 11 January! #SSHM2026 Histories of health and medicine will explore what ‘in’ & ‘out’ can reveal about the impact of different gateways, routes, breaks, and barriers on people’s experiences of health, disability, illness, and healthcare in the past. #histmed
- As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026…… A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026) Deadline for abstracts: 11 January
- The problem here lies in the assumption that social media represents some kind of "neutral public space" in which the predators are unwelcome guests and could be removed, rather than businesses designed to algorithmically turn their users into cash (whether they are turned into nudes or otherwise).
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellWell whaddyaknow.
- The "largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States", finds "no evidence…that screen time impacted [children's] brain function or well-being", even among "participants who had high rates of digital engagement" #smma www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
- When the staff on the Eurostar make an announcement and say "nonante"...
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellThere honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellI’m not sure “there’s nothing we can do about the sexual abuse image factory ask OfCom” is going to hold much water as a line taken by a government which (a) has a huge majority (b) just passed legislation to regulate what people can access online
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellStromness this afternoon. The sun sets as another snow shower arrives.
- Reposted by Andrew Burchellnow, it might seem odd that political commentators who advocated for the uk to leave the eu because of their belief in “the nation state” to be supportive of america’s annexation of venezuela, but what you have to remember is that those people didn’t actually think that, they were lying for money
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- Reposted by Andrew BurchellThis is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
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- The two archivists spent a large part of the day trying to catch an escaped ferret. When I went back the next day, I heard that they finally managed to trap him at 6pm with the aid of supermarket chicken in a cat trap.
- Reposted by Andrew BurchellThere isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
