George Severs
@georgesevers.bsky.social
Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Le militant Michael Hendricks est décédé. J'avais eu le plaisir de le rencontrer en 2019 avec @gbrlgirard.bsky.social pour parler de son engagement dans ACT UP Montréal #RIP www.fugues.com/2026/07/19/d...
Décès de Michael Hendricks (1941-2026) : un pionnier de nos communautés
Depuis quelques mois, Michael Hendricks avait annoncé que sa fin était proche. Samedi 18 juillet, son conjoint depuis plus de 40 ans, René LeBoeuf, a averti ses amis proches de son décès. Michael Hend...
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Heartbroken to wake up to the news of the attack at Berlin Pride. It reminds me of the feeling so many of us had when we heard about the shootings at Pulse in Orlando. "Do you really still need Pride?" we are often asked, condescendingly. In some ways, more than ever.
A pleasure to be in such esteemed company for this roundtable!
Dr Stephanie Brown@drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · last mo.A fab couple of days @sshmedicine.bsky.social. First a brillaint roundtable with @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @janetweston.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @ruthhalkon.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social and Louise Jackson on Putting Police back into Histories of Health.
A fab couple of days @sshmedicine.bsky.social. First a brillaint roundtable with @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @janetweston.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @ruthhalkon.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social and Louise Jackson on Putting Police back into Histories of Health.
📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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Yes! I read so much interesting work thanks to bsky. Recent books: Radical Acts by @georgesevers.bsky.social Cisgender by @perryzurn.bsky.social Femmephilia by @reproutopia.bsky.social Deviants and Trailblazers by @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social The Log Books thanks to @suchmayer.bsky.social rec
TC Parker (she/her)@tcparker.bsky.social · last mo.Equally true of academic publications. For people like me, trying to keep half a foot in academia while no longer actually being *in* academia, it's incredibly valuable to hear about the preprints, articles, monographs etc. everyone has coming out So please, keep talking about them!
Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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📣CFPs 📣London Foundling Hospital Conference 16 October 2026 @ihr.bsky.social Hidden Identities in the London Foundling Hospital Archives, New Questions and Discoveries Deadline for proposals 1 August #histmed
Call for Papers | London Foundling Hospital Conference
Call for Papers
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My copy of Dealing With Drugs. New Histories of Risk and Benefit has just arrived. Very pleased to see my chapter published in this wonderful volume!
I have a new article out on miscarriage in late twentieth-century Ireland. Special thanks to @delaycara.bsky.social for organising a 2024 workshop from which this & the other articles in the special issue stemmed, and for all the support through to publication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘It’s a really empty feeling’: women’s experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland
This article explores women's experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland. Drawing on oral history interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, the newsletters o...
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Yesterday, at our AGM, I stepped down as Secretary of the LGBTQ+ special interest group of the Oral History Society. It has been such a pleasure to serve in this role since October 2018, and I look forward to continuing to be involved in this special group.
We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...
The Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme
Two funded-fellowship opportunities for early career, postdoctoral researchers.
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Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians
Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain
Women's History Seminar
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Responding to a growing urgency to rethink class in historical terms, Gianmaria Brunazzi discusses ‘E. P. Thompson in Italy: Reception, Translation, and Class as a Historical Problem’. Join us, 18 June, Bloomsbury www.EPThompsonInItaly.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
We're a way off publication (likely December this year) and this is not the cover, but it's exciting to see that our book has a web page! www.routledge.com/Reusing-Oral...
Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis
Reusing Oral Histories is the first comprehensive guide available to scholars and students looking to analyse or reanalyse archived oral history interviews. Oral history scholarship to date has been...
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Now in translation, all 23 volumes (1899-1923) of the Annual of Sexual Intermediaries, ed. Magnus Hirschfeld. eBook, paperback, hardcover. Early #GermanGayMovement #Intersex #Transgender #lgbtqHistory in real time #MagnusHirschfeld 🌈🏳️⚧️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1CCLYZ
Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IV Part 1 (1902)
Amazon.com: Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IV Part 1 (1902) eBook : Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael: Kindle Store
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Dream team of @carorusterholz.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social & Naomi Samake-Bäckert starting day two at #MBS26 with their panel on 'Race and sexual reproductive health in post-war Britain'
📣Out now on #firstview! George J. Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social on 'HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside' #Urban #Rural #Heteronormativity #Sexual #Morality #History #Demography 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For Pride Month, Radical Online Archives has many collections of LGBTQ+ historical documents from across the world listed. Here is a selection of those listed. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside
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I'm so pleased to see that this chapter has been published. It's in a wonderful open access collection, Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity which emerged from the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A good day, so I’m celebrating! Andrea Althaus, Linde Apel, Janine Schemmer and I have submitted our book Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis! It will be the 15th book in Routledge’s excellent Practicing Oral History series and, all being well, should be out later this year.
Huge thanks to @loladickinson.bsky.social for this generous review of my book in @mbhjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
Radical acts: HIV/AIDS in late twentieth-century England. George J. Severs
Providing the first substantial account of HIV/AIDS activism at the height of England’s epidemic, George Severs’ Radical Acts is a necessary and compelling
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On Monday evening I will be joined by Katerina Suverina in Geneva to talk about drag and HIV/AIDS activism. Do join us if you can! www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
Using drag in HIV/AIDS activism: cases from Russia and England
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Today! An overview of some of the work I have been doing on the history on racialisation and sexual and reproductive health in postwar Britain. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
An Intimate History of Postcolonial England: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Three English Cities
An intimate history of postcolonial Britain through the sexual and reproductive health and healthcare of its citizens.
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I’ve had a wonderful time in Amsterdam, talking about sexual health & queer histories. Yesterday it was great to meet students from across the Netherlands in a masterclass on queer history, who are doing such interesting work! Thanks to Jesse van Amelsvoort and Gianmaria Colpani for the invitation.
Exciting CfP here!
Joe Jukes@joejukes.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
From the current issue: "(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History" by Emily Bridger (@uoearchhist.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...