"I was a very lucky fucker." Altered State author Matthew Collin interviewed about being in the right place at the right time for the acid house explosion, the misguided mythos of 90s nostalgia and ecstasy's longest UK legacy. whatareyouon.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the meaning of Rave?
Altered State author Matthew Collin on MDMA, 90s myth-making + the legacy of long nights under the lasers
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did Ecstasy end football "hooliganism"? finally finally out OA, in time for the end of the season: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
did Ecstasy end football "hooliganism"? finally finally out OA, in time for the end of the season: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
earlier this month i was in conversation with the artist potter Simon Bayliss about his new exhibition It's Just A Feeling which responds to my research on Ecstasy/MDMA. we spoke about studio pottery, pill presses and embodied emotions. you can listen back here www.auctionhouseart.co.uk
As the war on drugs approaches an end, a new doctrine could soon take hold: psychedelic drugs for active-duty soldiers suffering from PTSD. 'Our men and women in uniform deserve every tool available to heal and stay in the fight.' Latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Active-duty US soldiers to receive psychedelic drugs for PTSD next year
Hope that multiple sessions of MDMA-assisted therapy could help soldiers fight longer by helping them process trauma
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Over the past couple of years I’ve been working w/ the artist Simon Bayliss on the unlikely intersection between Ecstasy and studio pottery. We’ll be discussing this on 9 May at Gwennap Pit near Redruth, to mark Bayliss’ exhibition “It’s Just a Feeling” www.tickettailor.com/events/creat...
Select tickets – In Conversation – Simon Bayliss & Dr Peder Clark, hosted by Senara Wilson – Gwennap Pit, Busveal, Redruth
In Conversation – Simon Bayliss & Dr Peder Clark, hosted by Senara Wilson – Gwennap Pit, Busveal, Redruth, Sat 9 May 2026 - Artist Simon Bayliss and cultural and social historian Dr Peder Clark will b...
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Our edited volume Sick Jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body is almost here! It's up on the Manchester University Press website for preorders, ahead of its publication this September 🤩 🥳 📣 📖 lnkd.in/e47UeTsd
Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the @manchesterup.bsky.social website!! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/
Manchester University Press - Sick jokes
Sick jokes - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Sick jokes by Christine Slobogin
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Fearghus would be an excellent supervisor!
Oral History Network Ireland@oralhistoryie.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde. An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain. For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles
"Running for the shelter of her mother's little helper" From Victorian morphine tonics to 1950s benzos and barbies to millennial wine-o’clock, @ellajglover.bsky.social tells the history of drugs aimed at the “mum market”. 🙏 to @dhbuffalo.bsky.social for the smarts. substack.com/home/post/p-...
a Brief History of Mother’s Little Helpers
"Mums, like most humans, do use drugs"
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Very much looking forward to reading and assigning this - @benjamin-bland.bsky.social's new article on music as a site of racial formation (rather than liberal integration) in modern Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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this is tomorrow, you can sign-up here: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CHOMI Seminar - 12 February 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Dr Peder Clark '“Sorted”: Leah Betts, ‘ordinariness’ and drugs in 1990s Britain'
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Peder Clark@pederclark.bsky.social · 6mo agogiving 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...
The 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...
2026-27 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship | LSHTM
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a three-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2026, funded by a donation from
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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...
Today, 2.00 UK time, in person and online: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories
In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.
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Much 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.
Excited 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...
Brilliant 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...
‘All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue’: glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain
Abstract. This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era’s accelerated deindustrialization.
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29 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...
Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories
In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.
imperial.ac.uk
aahhh, the familiar tang of a friday afternoon "after careful consideration..." email
'“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
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 9mo agoEarly 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...
📙 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...
We 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"
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 11mo ago“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/ 🗃️
Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom
Aphex Twin, a Brixton squat and a load of wet mattresses: revisiting Telepathic Fish, the heart of the 90s chillout boom
Before it became naff music for health spas, chillout was cool – and this London club night was key. As a new generation carry its spirit forward, the originators remember the beats and bedding
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@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song #eahmh25
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode HD
YouTube video by themosttogain
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there are wardrobes of examples of these t-shirts
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoMy favourite childhood outfit: ‘I was an innocent Muslim girl – and a walking endorsement for ecstasy’
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.”
Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot@guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · last yr.Human Traffic review – one-crazy-night 90s clubbing comedy provides euphoric rush of nostalgia
