Peder Clark
history keeps me awake at night
- Reposted by Peder ClarkThe Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
- giving a paper on Leah Betts and ordinariness in ‘90s Britain at UCD in a fortnight’s time, 4pm thursday 12 February, in-person/online, all welcome! more details here: www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkToday, 2.00 UK time, in person and online: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkMuch needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC) And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.
- Reposted by Peder ClarkExcited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkBrilliant 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 Peder Clark29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
- aahhh, the familiar tang of a friday afternoon "after careful consideration..." email
- Reposted by Peder Clark'“There is a generation of young scholars who are finding themselves stuck in what feels like a period of protracted adolescence,” wrote one young academic earlier this year, in a series of blogs on the early career researcher experience published by the Society for the Study of French History.' 1/3
- Early career researchers feel sharp end of jobs crisis. As universities shed jobs, those setting out in academia are feeling pain of diminished prospects. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
- Reposted by Peder Clark📙 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...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkWe are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here: tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w
- to borrow a line from steve albini, "some of your friends are this fucked"
- “Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️
- Reposted by Peder ClarkAphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom
- Reposted by Peder Clark@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song #eahmh25
- there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts
- perhaps best documented by Ted Polhemus' photos, which i used for an article for HWO www.historyworkshop.org.uk/music-sound/...
- also in "X.Tee.C" published by Klasse Wrecks klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/merch/kfax19...
- I can’t in good faith defend ‘Human Traffic’ as a piece of cinema, but it did make culturally visible an entire lifestyle. John Simms: “To me, it’s like a time capsule: it perfectly captures the end of the 90s. That’s what it was like for millions of people every single weekend.”
- Reposted by Peder ClarkInside the race to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelic drugs in the world into a pharmaceutical.
- late to this but easily the best thing that's been written on the history of ketamine to date. i dream of visiting john lilly's archive at stanford...
- Some thoughts on ketamine www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
- new chapter from me on the folk legend around Ecstasy and football-related violence (or "hooliganism", if you prefer) rdcu.be/esUdJ
- one of my oral history participants sent this meme to me
- part of this excellent edited collection link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Peder Clark‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- very apposite that this is getting re-issued simultaneously with @mikejay.bsky.social's book about Thomas Beddoes and the discovery of laughing gas... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
- Stars of the Lid Music for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Remastered) bit.ly/4jmOg6w
- for a brief history of this: thepolyphony.org/2024/06/10/e...
- (1/2) I wrote about the strange and secretive world of ecstasy pill design... READ: www.vice.com/en/article/dutch-candy-pill-designs-cultural-artifacts/
- Reposted by Peder ClarkWe stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
- Reposted by Peder ClarkDid you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them
- Reposted by Peder Clark"Psychedelic Imaginaries," a special issue of SAQ edited by Ramzi Fawaz, collates fresh and theoretical perspectives on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. View the TOC: buff.ly/sYpPsmt Buy this issue: buff.ly/QnCxi44
- Reposted by Peder ClarkPhD Fellowship -- "The relationship between pharmaceuticals and society – including medical cannabis and psychedelics – has attracted sustained attention..." ⭐May 26 2025, review of initial apps ⭐June 9 2025, international candidates ⭐June 30 2025, domestic candidates aihp.org/announcement...
- Reposted by Peder Clark@alexdymock.bsky.social has guest curated an exhibition for the Museum of Sex in NYC drawing on her research. The exhibition draws on hidden histories to illustrate how our 21st century understanding of sex is shaped by the "altered states" brought about and inspired by psychedelic substances.
- In NY? The Museum of Sex exhibit "Higher Love: The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality" features a clip of Annie Sprinkle's "In Search of the Ultimate Sex Experience" from Rites of Passion (Candida Royalle, 1987). @anniesprinkle.bsky.social Info: www.museumofsex.com/exhibitions/...
- do i know anyone going to the Wellcome library in the next week or two that wouldn't mind photographing a couple of pages of a book for me?
- proofs are in
- coming soon - just in time for the end of the football season in May, i have a chapter in this on Ecstasy and the decline of "hooliganism" link.springer.com/book/9783031...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkCannabis: Global Histories Network CFP “Cannabis in Flux: Markets, Medicines, and Movements” Deadline for Proposals: 20 April 2025 Online & In Person Symposium: 23 & 24 October 2025 Learn more at docs.google.com/document/d/1... #history #histmed #cannabis #policy #marijuana #health
- Reposted by Peder ClarkToday I'll be lecturing about the history of this: theconversation.com/in-depth-out...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkIf interested in changing attitudes to motherhood, radio as health comms, women's voices & medic's expanding responsibilities, my new article explores “Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: Postnatal Depression Narratives, Treatment and Reception on BBC Radio, 1946–85 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- coming soon - just in time for the end of the football season in May, i have a chapter in this on Ecstasy and the decline of "hooliganism" link.springer.com/book/9783031...
- save yourself a few ££s over ebay prices for the og...
- Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain - Andy Roberts' seminal text revised, updated, and out in April 🥳 Pre-order ⬇️ psychedelicpress.co.uk/collections/...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkNext Tuesday (4th of March) we welcome Merrilees Roberts (QMUL) to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for the next @cshhh.bsky.social seminar! 4-5.30 pm in TL565 to hear about 'Keats’s Blushing Bodies: Inflammation, Arousal and Critique'. All welcome, there will be wine and crisps obviously.
- wrote a tiny bit on the gender politics of Boy's Own a couple of years back... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- plus Ben Jones at greater length on class and Boy's Own "politics of nostalgia"... academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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- first @cshhh.bsky.social seminar of 2025 this afternoon, w/ @npapadogian.bsky.social speaking on "Translating interviews with Greek transgender HIV/AIDS activists". 4pm, TL565, all welcome! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkWhat if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay
- Reposted by Peder ClarkFirst post on bsky and first @cshhh.bsky.social seminar @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Next Tuesday we will be joined by Nikolaos Papadogiannis who will present on 'Translating interviews with Greek transgender HIV/AIDS activists', 4-5.30pm in the Teaching and Learning Building 565. All welcome!
- Reposted by Peder ClarkShort piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history! The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ 🔗👇🏽 www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...
- yeah, this is a really good article drugs historians!
- Starting a not-quite-so-grey day with more shiny new publications! My article with @drjonwinder.bsky.social & Ellis Spicer on bust cards & policing from the 1960s is now out in advance access in @mbhjournal.bsky.social! Read it open access here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance...
- Reposted by Peder Clark🇬🇧 Drug use trends, 16-24 year olds, 1995 v 2023: 💨 Speed: tanked, from 12% to sub 1% 🙂 E: fallen by two thirds 🌱 Weed: halved 🍭 LSD: halved, but creeping up 🍄 Mushies: after falling, back to '95 levels ❄️ Cocaine: tripled (altho same level as '00) 🐴 Ketamine: tripled (since K stats started '07)
- Drug misuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2024 - An overview of the extent and trends of illicit drug use. Data are from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Out now from ONS - www.ons.gov.uk/releases/dru...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkI never get tired of listening & looking @ Michael Linnell’s pioneering harm reduction art work. Great to have him come and talk to our Criminology & Sociology students as part of our harm reduction panel alongside Early Break’s Janine Day and Jon Findlay, Way Throughs national harm reduction lead.👍
- Reposted by Peder ClarkChecking out where the mushrooms grow in our latest article... A note on Liberty Caps in late 1970s Britain... psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/mushrooms-...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkOn visions, vomiting and enchantment, for @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Peder ClarkJob opportunity at the University of Strathclyde: Chancellor’s fellowship/Lythe lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration, funded by the Charlotte Lythe Bequest. Deadline 5 January 2025. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about our dept! strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...
