Writer & Historian
Writing.
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
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At Long Last, Some Recognition of the Pain after Childbirth. Why is Women’s Suffering so Ignored? The Guardian (March 2023)
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My Rare Chronic Illness Is Now Viral On TikTok Refinery 29 (March 2023)
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The Cold, Cold War, History Today (January 2023)
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When NHS Workers Fought Back Against Thatcher, Tribune (November 2022)
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Natural Birth Control Exploded on TikTok, And the Anti-Abortion Movement Jumped Right On, The Daily Dot (September 2022)
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Chronic UTIs Plague Women Across The UK – Why Does No One Care?, Refinery29 (August 2022)
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How Much Should a Doctor Earn? LRB (August 2022)
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How Prejudice Warped Health Care in the Colonies, New Lines Magazine (July 2022)
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I’m running the entire London Underground – Here’s why I’d recommend you give it a go too, Stylist Magazine (April 2022)
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Carbolic Soap Operas, LRB Blog (March 2022)
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Charitable Health Service, LRB Blog (February 2022)
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Symptoms of Prejudice, Times Literary Supplement (January 2022)
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History tells us that ‘Endemic’ Covid Doesn’t Mean the End of the Virus, The i (January 2022)
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The Doctor is In, History Today (November 2021)
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Austria’s Mandatory Covid Vaccine Plan Ignores the Lessons of History, The i (November 2021)
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Failure to Treat Chronic UTIs Exposes how our Health System does not Work for Women, The i (October 2021)
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It's Exhausting, History Today (September 2021)
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PM’s Covid Nurse is Latest to Fall Foul of Profession’s Myths, The Times (May 2021)
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Covid-19 Only Exacerbated a Longer Pattern of Health-care Worker Stress, Washington Post (April 2021)
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Will the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Usher in a Second Roaring '20s?, The Conversation (April 2021)
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From Polio to Spanish Flu, History Shows There is no Clear Ending to a Pandemic, The i (April 2021)
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Coronavirus: The Price of Global Pandemic Responses has Been to Make Many Other Diseases Worse, The Conversation (March 2021)
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History Shows us COVID Vaccine Passports will not Increase Jab Uptake, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, The i (March 2021)
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Vaccine Rollout: History Shows us that it’s always a bit Shambolic, The Conversation (January 2021)
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Vaccines Alone aren’t enough to Eradicate a Virus: Lessons from History, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, The Conversation (January 2021)
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What Elvis Presley’s Televised Polio Vaccination can tell us about the Shortfalls of Celebrity-Endorsed Health Campaigns, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, The Conversation (November 2020)
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Vaccine Hesitancy is Not New – History Tells us we Should Listen, Not Condemn, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, The Conversation (November 2020)
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Being Seen as an ‘NHS Hero’ Comes at a Cost, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, The Times (April 2020)
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We’re Stuck Fighting a 21st Century Public Health Crisis with 100-year-old Medical Techniques, The Independent, co-written with Caitjan Gainty, (April 2020)
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Why Handstands are the Ideal Exercise Class - Even if Like Me, You're Not Very Good, The Telegraph (March 2019)
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How I Teach Students about Equality, The Guardian (January 2015)
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