Wow, ‘This is Endometriosis’ won a BAFTA for Best British Short Film 2026.
What a powerful and personal project. It so accurately represents living with a chronic illness. If you haven’t already watched it, I heavily encourage you to do so, especially as March is Endometriosis Awareness Month.
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
This officiating is the worst I’ve seen all season. Villa should have had 2 men sent off, they’ve been allowed an offside goal, another blatant offside that was ignored by the linesman and a foul not awarded because the ref blew for half time. Genuinely appalling #nufc
NUFC V PSV
3-0 to the Geordie Boys and my first Champion’s League match, can’t go wrong!
What a bonnie place to call home
The cover of the book which is titled ‘The Football History of Newcastle United As Told in the Headlines Since 1883’
An article from 1910
An article about Alan Shearer
An article about Joelinton
My dad got me the ultimate Christmas present that blended my love for history and Newcastle United together:
Thanks Lou!! I’m already thinking about what to get next. Maybe I should get a switchboard 😂😂
‘doing a PhD’ - I’ve lost the ability to write in clear sentences it seems 🤦🏼♀️
Are you even doing PhD unless you get your research permanently inked?
Wee postage stamps of Durham and the Angel of the North!
(Incase anyone doesn’t know by now, I’m from County Durham and research disabled expertise in the British Post Office)
Thank you Christina, she really was the core of our family. How lucky are we to have something so special, that makes saying goodbye so difficult.
We had to say goodbye to our Bella this morning. We’re all absolutely heartbroken, things won’t be the same without her. We got Bella when I was 13, and she’s been with us through the best and worst times of our lives. I could talk forever about how wonderful she is ❤️🩹 Our smart and beautiful girl ❤️
This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. 📜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🗃️
Yesterday Prof. Julie-Marie Strange organised an event to mark World AIDS Day with Dr Rupert Whitaker OBE, co-founder of Terrence Higgins Trust, here with Dr David Minto and colleagues from Durham County Council and The Story
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
I’ve procrastinated my work so hard I’ve ended up at a Peep Show quiz in Newcastle. This has to be one of the highlights of my year.
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
FUNDED PhDs! We are advertising for three ESRC-funded PhD scholarships! Any specialism permitted, depending on departmental supervision available. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH631/e...
A photograph of the River Wear and Elvet Bridge taken from New Elvet. In the background you can see Durham Cathedral and Castle peeping up from behind the trees. The ‘Princey B’ party boat is in the foreground.
Today I was teaching in the same seminar room that I had my first ever seminars in as an undergraduate, which felt like a full circle moment.
I came to uni through an access scheme and very nearly didn’t get here, so this all feels so surreal 6 years later. Protect access schemes. They are vital ❤️
I understand very well that the area I was born and raised has a complicated and complex history, I’ve seen it first-hand. But I know this has gone beyond a simple conversation. A bigger intervention is needed.
Every street in Ferryhill / Chilton has a Union Jack on it, and this has been celebrated. Having worked with previous MPs of our consistency on these issues in particular, I know for a fact they do not even place asylum seekers / refugees here because of the vitriol espoused by racist locals.
Graffiti on the side of a house in Chilton, County Durham ‘Stop the Boats!’
I went back home yesterday (ex-pit village in County Durham) and someone had graffitied onto the side of a house. This is an area that once upon a time came together as a proper community, but since the rise of the EDL and BNP etc, esp from early 2000s, has seen more division than ever.
An NUFC-heavy weekend!
Jigsaw completed, watched Woltemade’s debut and first goal, and secured tickets for NUFC v Bradford City. Not sure any of these hobbies can be considered relaxing, the Geordie Boys like to keep us on our toes!
News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n
If I’m finished before Saturday’s game I’ll be delighted 😂
A jigsaw puzzle of the Newcastle United football badge, with the blue banner completed (and a lot of the jigsaw still to be completed)
Trying to engage in more relaxing hobbies outside of the PhD and ironically found something more stressful and difficult:
Shameful proof, if more was needed, of the extent to which all this is just plain old racism and nothing to do with the safety of women and girls.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In case you think the original post unmeasured: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...
Seen some St George’s Fiery Crosses on my morning run. This is not innocent - there’s no historical precedent of displaying the Cross or the Union Flag outside of sporting events, royal stuff, and maybe govt buildings except by fascists. Fascist involvement in founding this campaign no coincidence.
Blown away by the response to our conference 'Opposition to Thatcher'. Already lots of top abstracts in place, so set to be an unbelievable confidence this November at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Still 1 Week left to submit abstracts. Please share with those interested. 💖
Forty staff members at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield plan to strike over pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
