Anna Greenwood
@profannagreenwood.bsky.social
Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
Help us collect images of unhealthy tobacco, alcohol and gambling sponsorship in sport since 1960! Our new website is live!
Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're delighted to announce the launch of our project website! This includes a Digital Map, using public submissions to chart ‘addictive sponsorship’ in British sport through branded memorabilia. Please visit us/circulate widely/repost/make a submission! kickingthehabit.uk/memorabilia-...
Fantastic tobacco historian @d-oneill.bsky.social giving a talk at Silverstone. Should be great! @kthabitproject.bsky.social @milkwknives.bsky.social @sportshistory.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social @bssh.bsky.social
Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · 10mo agoExciting News! The project's very own @d-oneill.bsky.social will be talking about tobacco sponsorship in F1 and its associated public health challenges at the Silverstone Museum next weekend. Do consider attending if interested. Info is in the linked post.
Do you have a paper that might work for this?
Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · 10mo agoREMINDER: Just a week left now to submit abstracts to the CfP below.
Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.
Our first project launch article. Please follow our project @kthabitproject.bsky.social - and you can watch it unfold!
Kicking the Habit@kthabitproject.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for posting a blog introducing our project, 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025', on the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries’ sponsorship of football, rugby, cricket, F1 & tennis. Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social