Think and work in an interdisciplinary manner, where necessary bringing in concepts and methodologies from outside Economic History and even from disciplines other than History. Chloe Shields is in the second year of her AHRC-CDP funded PhD supervised by Dr Elsa Richardson and Dr Oliver Betts. Previously, Chloe completed her bachelor’s degree in history, and MSc in Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow, researching both food history and food and visitor studies in museums. Her current research project is titled ‘Eating on the Go’: Cultures of Consumption and the Railways, 1880-1948’ partnered between the University of Strathclyde and the National Railway Museum in York. Her research revolves around the social, economic and political structures that framed food and eating experiences on Britain’s railways. Utilising the world-class collection of the National Railway Museum (and Wider Science Museum Group) her PhD explores how and what people ate on the railways, and how they felt about it. Eva Ward The rally will be attended by Unite members from Glasgow and Strathclyde universities who will march to the rally from their workplaces. The workers will be joined by other Unite members from the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University. Members from other trade unions including UCU, Unison and EIS-FELA will also join the march. Unite regional officer Alison Maclean said: “The strike action involving around 1,000 Unite members in universities and colleges across Scotland is solely down to the intransigence and inaction of pay body bosses. The rally in Glasgow will be a welcome opportunity to demonstrate to these bosses just how much goodwill and support there is out there for the workers. The students and workers know where the blame for this situation lies, and our members are prepared to fight on for fair and decent pay.” Iain is a recipient of a Foundation Award for Early Career Researchers from the Glasgow Medical Humanities Network. Eighteen awards were made in 2021, to researchers from all over the UK, for research and/or knowledge exchange projects that enhance medical humanities in the Glasgow context. Andrew Glen

Mary has been a University of Strathclyde student since 2014, completing a bachelor’s degree in history in 2018 and a MSc in health history in 2019. She has been granted a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship to research her project: Animals and Allergy in Historical Perspective: Test Subjects, Pets and Patients, 1900 – Present. This research will explore the use of animals as test subjects for early allergy experiments, animals as a potent source of allergy and the growing incidence of atopic diseases in animals. This project employs published and oral history sources as well as archival research in Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum, the National Academy of Medicine in Paris and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in Wisconsin. Her thesis aims to inform ongoing research into the epidemiology of allergy, our current understanding of atopic conditions and our evolving relationship with companion animals. Rachel Meach Tennent's launched a new can series roughly every three years with new models on the cans. There was a considerable difference between the photographs used on the British cans and those sold abroad.

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Graph 9.1: Glasgow Royal Infirmary alcohol expenditure from 1871 to 1914. The dates shown are those in which expenditure on alcohol was listed in the annual reports 21 Eva completed a bachelor’s degree in History and Spanish at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She was a recipient of a 2016-2017 Fulbright Student Research Award, which funded a master’s degree in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. She is currently enrolled at the University of Strathclyde as a first year PhD student in History.Her PhD comprises part of Professor James Mills Wellcome Trust Award Investigation ‘The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals, Consumers and Control in South & East Asia c1900-1945’. Her research focuses on the consumption of psychoactive substances in the colonial Philippines during the first half of the twentieth century.Her research interests include public policy and substate nationalism, early modern and modern colonial history in the Americas and Asia, and drugs history and politics. Jasmine WoodDemonstrate independence of mind and initiative, intellectual integrity and maturity, and an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers. Demonstrate, by way of coursework, an ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;

I think one of the answers is that the advertisements are most extremely attractive and alluring. I have brought a group of advertisements here … One advertisement states that ‘Wincarnis is a natural nerve and brain food’ … I do not consider that anything which contains twenty percent of alcohol, which is a nerve depressant and a nerve irritant, has any claim to be called a brain food. Then there is the advertisement: ‘Nurse? One moment please. Wincarnis gives a strength that is lasting because in each wineglassful of Wincarnis there is a standardized amount of nutriment.’ That is calculated to make people think that it is really a nutritious mixture and when it comes to the analysis, we find that the little amount of meat extract is nothing approaching the amount of an ordinary cup of beef tea. My point is the misleading influence of the advertisements. 43 Evidently, this doctor was concerned that the welfare of patients was put at risk by a distinction based on moral rather than medical grounds. Alcohol still held value within therapeutics and in surgical procedures and therefore to deny it to patients within workhouse hospitals must have seemed ethically questionable. However, temperance debates aside, by the early twentieth century there was growing scientific evidence for restricting the use of alcohol in medicine. Macfie referred to several studies that challenged the prevailing view that alcohol provided stimulation in cases of disease and debility. 13 These studies showed that alcohol also had an irritant or depressive action on nerves and body tissues. Macfie also pointed out that there were alternatives to alcoholic stimulation in therapeutics There was another attempt to expand its market. Tennent’s unveiled its 1965 Housewives’ Choice campaign after the relaxation of off-licence laws saw a boost in at-home drinking in Scotland.

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An examination of the transformation of the production and consumption of, and opposition to, alcoholic beverages in Britain and Ireland over the course of the long 19th Century. Mara is in the third year of a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing and History of Medicine, funded by a University of Strathclyde faculty scholarship. Her interdisciplinary project investigates how historical fiction allows us to inhabit historical bodies, and what embodied narratives can tell us about women’s sexual and reproductive experiences in the period 1900-1950. The creative component is a novel, set in the Spring of 1948 as the UK’s health services headed towards nationalisation. It explores post-war politics, family and gender dynamics, and contemporaneous concerns around sex education and contraception. The accompanying dissertation expands on these themes, specifically interrogating representations of the female body and the medical gaze in early twentieth century literature and related historical fiction. Her analysis combines feminist criticism, narrative theory, and various body works. She is also using her historical research to feed into inter-disciplinary community engagement activities on the history of healthcare and writing the body. Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox The first Tennent’s cans were of a wholesome design, depicting romantic Scottish landscapes and English landmarks to strengthen the brand’s homegrown image. Kristin completed her MSc in Health History at the University of Strathclyde and has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship award for her PhD on the history of contraception and abortion in Scotland c.1960 - 2000. She has an interest in the history of sex and medicine, pharmacy, psychiatry and oral history. Her thesis will consider the ways in which society, culture and medicine have shaped access to and attitudes towards contraception and abortion in Scotland during the second half of the twentieth century. Through the use of oral history, this project will uncover how women navigated the often-complicated world of reproductive healthcare in a new, medical age and explore how it impacted their lives. It will examine the shifting nature of the patient-practitioner relationship during this time, and the experiences of women who sought access to reproductive health facilities in Scotland.” Rachel Hewitt