Helen Goodman
Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, and psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health and the body ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & chronic pain (she/her)
UK
- Petition for Lord Peter Mandelson to be stripped of his title: c.org/DCmvJdQRsm
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- New laws in #Afghanistan have further relegated the status and safety of women. Society is now divided into free people and 'the enslaved'; #domesticviolence is specifically met with impunity, provided a man does not break a woman's bones; if a woman repeatedly leaves the marital home against...
- US federal agents have murdered another US citizen in Minneapolis, less than three weeks after they murdered Renee Good. Today’s victim is Alex Pretti, another 37-yo, who was an intensive care nurse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- ‘University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes…’ can make #NobelPeacePrize nominations.
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- Trump to an audience in Davos - a town where most residents speak Swiss German 🙄
- Reposted by Helen Goodman“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
- If the government did this for Thomas Cooke they should do it for education providers.
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- The foul smirk on Farage's face tells you everything you need to know about Reform's attitude to pornography, paedophilia, and sexual violence against women and children.
- JOB!
- 📣 We’re hiring! The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team. 🔗 Details below: #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs
- Reposted by Helen GoodmanToday is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com
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- Remember this? Farage is no less offensive, racist, or frightening than he was 11 years ago.
- Reposted by Helen GoodmanIf you want to do an MA in London but have 'barriers accessing education or may face greater challenges while undertaking their degree' (specific criteria below), you can apply for a £3,000 tuition grant at Birkbeck. Lots of choices at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
- Three 'reasons' and not one is about democracy. It's about oil, power, and intimidation.
- Interested in Charles Lamb & his circle, Romantic poetry & culture, or #Keats? Come along to the Charles Lamb Society's annual lunch on 7 Feb @bathspauni.bsky.social London Hoxton campus to celebrate Lamb's birthday...
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- This 'ultra Liberal' MP became so wealthy as a cotton manufacturer that he could afford to retire by my age, yet he was opposed to slavery, child labour, and long working hours in factories - all of which had lined his own pockets.
- Joseph Brotherton was Salford’s first MP, from 1832 until his death #OnThisDay 1857. An ‘ultra Liberal’, he opposed slavery, child labour & the death penalty, & was one of the founders of @vegsoc.bsky.social. On his Commons career, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/i...
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanLooking for history book recommendations? Explore #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner Hannah Durkin's favourite historical non-fiction books on our @bookshop.org page⬇️📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hannah...
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanYork is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)
- Delighted that Bath Spa has been ranked second most ethical and sustainable university in the UK. Congratulations to all the colleagues and students who worked towards this!
- 📣 The 2025/6 University League is here! We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈 🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇 peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
- Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
- British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanThe Society currently invites applications for 6 funding programmes across a broad range of career stages. These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2
- Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
- Image: Levacher de la Feutrie, 'Traité du rakitis, ou l'art de redresser les enfants contrefaits' (1772). Wellcome images.
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- Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.
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- Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!
- @lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
- Reposted by Helen GoodmanLess than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
- Reposted by Helen Goodman2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
- Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanWhat's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
- Starmer's record: 🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests 🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge 🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field) 🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion 🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies
- 'CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE' - international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...
- In the year to March 2025, a prisoner was accidentally released more days than not - 262, ‘up from 115 the previous year. The Labour government has repeatedly attacked the Tories for leaving them a broken justice system.’
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Helen GoodmanDid you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanBooking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900! See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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- Reposted by Helen GoodmanDid anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
- ‘More recently, the Free Contraception Scheme allows women aged 17 to 35 access contraception with ease. “That’s great. To think you had all that fuss years ago,” Ms McGee said of the change.’ What about those outside that age bracket?
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- Absolutely ready for this.
- The world can’t be so bad when it contains this:
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- Each grant is worth $3,000 😁
- Reposted by Helen GoodmanFellowship Opportunity for ECRs: The Byron Society Fellow Focussing on digital promotion activities, with a £2500 annual stipend. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
