Dr Hannah Elizabeth

Research Fellow

History

Personal statement

I am a historian of modern Britain with expertise in the history of health, childhood, sexuality and activism. I joined Strathclyde in September 2025 to take up a Wellcome Career Development Award. My programme of research examines the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial in the UK, Australia and in transnational spaces.

Publications

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Publications

"A microcosm of every other issue" : How social workers recognized and responded to the needs of HIV-affected families with children in Britain, 1981-1997: Elizabeth Hannah J; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2026); https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrag019
'Do not become pregnant' : Negotiating HIV-affected pregnancy and abortion in late-twentieth-century Scotland: Elizabeth Hannah J; Health and History Vol 26, pp. 95-114 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2024.a952499
‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’ : how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis: Elizabeth Hannah J; Contemporary British History Vol 37, pp. 309-338 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016
Recovering mothers’ experiences of HIV/AIDS health activism in Edinburgh, 1983– 2000: Elizabeth Hannah J; Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe New and Regional Perspectives (2022) (2022); https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151223.00015
Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe : New and Regional Perspectives: Weston Janet, Elizabeth Hannah J; Social Histories of Medicine Social Histories of Medicine (2022); https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151223
'If it hadn't been for the doctor, I think I would have killed myself' : Ensuring adolescent knowledge and access to healthcare in the age of gillick: Elizabeth Hannah J; Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain (2022) (2022)

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Research

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Research Interests

The social history of medicine in Britain
Health activism (especially LGBTQ health activism, activism around AIDS, teenage activism and (mis)information activism)
History of public health and health education
History of childhood (especially around health rights, sex eduction and children's media)
History of emotions
History of sexuality
Regional histories of everyday health
Age as a category of analysis
Oral history methods
Internet history methods