Publications
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Assemblages of cancer
(2025)
Assemblages of Cancer offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, linking patients’ experiences with the biomedical, political and cultural context of the disease. The book is based ...
Comradely objects
(2020)
The major part of this book project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 700913.<br/>This book is about two distinct but ...
Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the ‘contagious Arab’ in the Mediterranean, 1830s–1900
(2018)
This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed ...
Progress and pathology
(2020)
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of ...
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914: Space, identity and power
(2018)
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its ...
Chapter 6 Prevention and stigma
(2018)
This chapter investigates the use of quarantine as an instrument of social control and as dispositive for the construction and stigmatization of the Muslim ‘other’. The study takes the under-researched case of the Hajj to ...
Chapter 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî
(2018)
This chapter examines the writings of the renowned late-eighteenth-century Moroccan ambassador Ibn Uthmân Al-Meknassî, the first known traveller from his country to leave an account of European quarantine as experienced ...
Solidarity – Nature, grounds, and value
(2024)
In a world of deep political divisions and rising inequality, people feel the need for some form of collective resistance and transformative joint action. Calls for solidarity are heard everywhere. This book presents a ...
Chapter Talk shows and 'tanorexia'
(2024)
The rise in melanoma skin cancer rates from the 1950s in mostly fair-skinned populations, such as in Britain, triggered a global panic on skin cancer in the 1990s. Some countries tightened restrictions on sunbeds to lower ...
Chapter Girlhood menstrual management and the 'culture of concealment' in postwar Britain
(2024)
In 1996, 238 cis-gendered women responded to the Mass Observation (MO) Directive ‘Women’s sanitary protection and menstruation’. The Directive asked for stories, anecdotes, beliefs, and observations about menstrual management, ...
Chapter Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections
(2025)
By the early 1990s, a drastic increase in malignant melanoma rates—mainly in the UK, Europe, America, and Australia—sparked significant concern about skin cancer. In Britain, medical experts and the media attempted to ...
Chapter Cultivating vulnerability
(2024)
This chapter is a personal reflection on the author’s doubts, whilst leading an oral history project, about power dynamics within the interviewer–interviewee relationship, the risks of abuse of power and of paternalism, ...
Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
(2025)
By the early 1990s, a drastic increase in malignant melanoma rates—mainly in the UK, Europe, America, and Australia—sparked significant concern about skin cancer. In Britain, medical experts and the media attempted to ...
Chapter Writing everyday life into law
(2024)
In 1977, a curious and short-lived social security benefit came into being. Housewife’s Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension (HNCIP) was assessed through a ‘household duties test’ which sought to determine whether a woman ...
Chapter ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’
(2024)
Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform ...
‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
(2024)
This volume introduction sets out the concept of ‘everyday health’ and its relation to embodiment and selfhood. It charts how and why ‘everyday health’ has assumed such importance since 1950, including: the rise of welfare ...
Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s
(2024)
This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
This volume introduction sets out the concept of ‘everyday health’ and its relation to embodiment and selfhood. It charts how and why ‘everyday health’ has assumed such importance since 1950, including: the rise of welfare ...
Chapter Queering the agony aunt
(2024)
A discussion of public engagement ‘on the ground’ rather than an idealised account, this chapter demonstrates some of the messiness that shifts in research and encounters with different publics can bring to public engagement ...
Chapter 'Thirty years behind England'? Framing 'natural' childbirth in postwar Canada
(2024)
Following the North American publication of British obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear in 1944, natural childbirth theories reached new audiences, including Canadians who were interested in what they ...
Threads of labour
(2025)
This book explores the everyday lives of irregular migrants from Central and Western Africa ‘stuck’ in Morocco and navigating hostile politics of containment with abuse, suffering, and violence. It sheds light on young, ...
Renaissance skin
(2025)
Skin in the Renaissance was understood very differently from the skin we know today. In the humoural world of Europe between 1500 and 1700, it was the clothing of the body, a net or a web. It was the skin that forms on hot ...
Bordering social reproduction
(2025)
Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. The book provides rich ethnographic ...
Steelworkers in struggle
(2025)
This book uses oral history testimony from forty former steelworker trade unionists to examine the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike. The book argues that the strike was both the most significant event in the history of ...
Faith, folk and the far right
(2025)
Matters of ancestry, race and racism endure within Heathenry, a new religious movement drawing inspiration from the pre-Christian religions of northern Europe. Most Heathens, termed ‘inclusivist’ or ‘universalist’, welcome ...
Knowing COVID-19
(2024)
Knowing COVID-19 looks at how different kinds of knowledge and meaning have been created and communicated, and the repercussions this has had – and continues to have – for how COVID-19 is managed, experienced, understood ...
Pandemic culture
(2024)
This book reports on the findings of an eighteen-month UKRI funded mixed-methods research project that took place in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales between September 2020 and November 2021. It provides a ...
Creative approaches to wellbeing
(2024)
The preface sets the context for the Pandemic and Beyond series and outlines how it is shaped by and sits within the research and funding landscape for arts and humanities during the pandemic. The series arises from a ...
Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts
(2024)
Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts shares important insights into the effects of the pandemic on live performance in the UK. It features eight projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council between ...
Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making
(2024)
In Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-decision-making, we reflect on what it means to govern ethically in a pandemic. We explore what it means to be in a situation in which rational or epistemic framings of the ...
Violence against women’s health in international law
(2020)
Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on ...
Engine of modernity
(2020)
Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a ...
Commerce, finance and statecraft
(2020)
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history of economic policy. Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing ...
The United States in the Indo-Pacific
(2020)
This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only ...
Participatory reading in late-medieval England
(2017-11-01)
This book explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodiment are practices ...
Anglophobia in Fascist Italy
(2022)
This book is freely available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Anglophobia in Fascist Italy traces the origins and development of anti-British sentiment in Fascist ...
History, historians and development policy
(2011)
The substantive and methodological contributions of professional historians to development policy debates was marginal, whether because of the dominance of economists or the inability of historians to contribute. There are ...
The EU and crisis response
(2021)
This is a start-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its ...
Medical histories of Belgium
(2021)
This edited volume offers the first comprehensive historical overview of the Belgian medical field in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its chapters develop narratives that go beyond traditional representations of ...
Anti-computing
(2021)
Anti-computing explores forgotten histories and contemporary forms of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. ...