‘Private Things Affect Other People’: <i>Grange Hill</i>’s Critique of British Sex Education Policy in the Age of AIDS

Elizabeth, Hannah J.

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“…Similarly, Hannah Elizabeth, for example, has shown how in 1995 the British TV series Grange Hill addressed the HIV/AIDS crisis through five episodes. The programme produced ‘an idealised series of events wherein an AIDS-affected child could disclose her grief and fears, her disclosures made possible and advisable by sex education that had empowered her and her classmates’, ultimately iterating the need for AIDS education for young people (Elizabeth 2021).…”

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‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland

Kelly

2022

Med Humanities

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In 1984, the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) established a youth group comprised of young volunteers aged between 16 years and 20 years. The IFPA was responding to a perceived need for sexual health advice for young people in the absence of any formal sex education in Irish schools. The group established a telephone helpline and, from late 1987, was commissioned to provide advice columns for two Irish magazines for young people calledHot PressandFresh. The advice columns run by the IFPA youth group provided an important educational and counselling service for young people on matters relating to sexual health and relationships. Letters to the two magazines also attest to a significant degree of ignorance around sexual and reproductive health among young people and the prevalence of risk taking with regard to contraception. Moreover, the letters were often frank and deeply honest about the feelings and emotions experienced by the letter writer. Replies to the letter writers from the IFPA group were sensitive and empathetic, but clear and unambiguous, highlighting the team’s approaches to sexual health counselling and ‘risk’ which were modelled on approaches by British groups such as the Samaritans, Grapevine and Brook. Drawing on the uncatalogued letters received by the youth group, as well as the published replies in the magazine advice columns, this article will shed light on the key sexual health concerns of young Irish people in the late 1980s. Ultimately, it will examine what these queries reveal about the impact of Ireland’s social and moral climate on teenagers’ emotional health. More broadly, the letters to these magazines illuminate the stigma, shame and silences around these issues in 1980s’ Ireland, and highlight the importance of magazines as a source of communication and an outlet for young people to express their emotions relating to sexuality, relationships and sexual health.

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‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland

Kelly

2022

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“…Yet, as Janet Weston and Virginia Berridge show (2018), national and institutional policies remained at odds with liberal health interventions. Elizabeth's work (2020a; 2020b; Forthcoming a) on AIDS‐era health promotion and safe‐sex practices among adolescents reveals how such resistance played out in British schools. In his famous (1986) BMJ leader on HIV/AIDS, Porter described education as ‘the crucial weapon’ in the state's preventative strategy.…”

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Histories of ‘a loathsome disease’: Sexual health in modern Britain

Hanley

2022

History Compass

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From Victorian preoccupations with prostitution and degeneration to our present-day problems with antimicrobial resistance and inequalities in access to care, sexual health has been riddled with gendered, racialised, politicised and class-based meanings. Historians writing from within an increasingly diverse collection of subfields have explored how British attitudes towards, and interventions in, sexual health have changed over the past two centuries. In so doing, they have also addressed a wide range of themes in British social life, politics, gender and sexuality. This article surveys this extensive historiography, highlighting important shifts and reflecting on where historians might fruitfully turn next. Inevitably, there are problematic silences in the scholarship. Historians, overwhelmingly reliant on records compiled by health authorities and the state, have tended to write top-down histories of sexual health. The lived experiences of ordinary people, especially those on the margins of society, remain frustratingly elusive. Moreover, the same sorts of inequalities that historically undermined care and denied patients a voice continue to shape health outcomes.As such, this article not only surveys the historiography but also makes the case for the important role that historians can play in supporting positive changes in attitudes towards sexual health and the delivery of healthcare today.

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“…Her analysis emphasizes the perceived value of authenticity and emotional sensitivity to reaching the desired audience. In another paper for Twentieth Century British History , Elizabeth assesses a storyline of the children's television soap opera Grange Hill from 1995. This empathetic portrayal of a child suffering from AIDS aimed to attend to a subject of growing public concern.…”

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Review of periodical literature for 2021

Gibbs

2022

The Economic History Review

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The impact of economic shocks was an important topic of current debate during 2021 as Britain experienced the COVID-19 lockdown as well as the beginning of rising inflation and energy price increases. These themes were also present in the literature published that year, which addressed the impact of shifts in which terms of trade and policy responses to currency and other economic pressures were dominant features. The context of the renegotiation of Britain's economic relations with other nations and an increasingly diverse society were other common areas of study, incorporating both the influence of European integration on business and consumer taste as well as the impacts of decolonization and Commonwealth immigration.An analysis of long-term patterns of inflation was developed by Forbes et al., who found that a 'trendy' (p. 23) rather than more prescriptive approach was beneficial to understanding the complex factors which have shaped the value of sterling over time. They concluded that given the nature of Britain's comparatively open economy and dependency on imports and monetary flows, international prices and exchange rates have been the dominant factor that explain Britain's inflation dynamics in recent decades. Bahmani-Oskooee and Karamelikli's research on bilateral trading relationships between Britain and eurozone economies found that exchange rate fluctuations had divergent effects on the trade balance. Nevertheless, sterling depreciation was broadly negative for the UK's position. In a paper published in the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Bahmani-Oskooee et al. concluded that between 1996 and 2018, short-run exchange rate effects in terms of dollar-pound volatility had an observable impact on trade across a large range of industries. These statistical studies were complemented by archival research on shifts in monetary policy. Butkiewicz and Ohlmacher's Economic History Review paper used new evidence from the Nixon White House tapes to better understand responses to the currency crisis that led to the end of the Bretton Woods system. It found British requests for support against the impact of dollar devaluation on sterling impacted discussions and shaped Nixon's choice to impose wageprice controls as part of a distraction from the realities of a devaluation through shifts in the dollar exchange rate. Aliber's paper on the summit Nixon hosted at Camp David in August 1971 indicates that Nixon had hoped to alter exchange rates to favour American exports, but in fact, devaluation only led to an influx of foreign purchases of US securities, contributing to the United States subsequently becoming the world's largest debtor.

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‘Private Things Affect Other People’: Grange Hill’s Critique of British Sex Education Policy in the Age of AIDS

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‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland

‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland

Histories of ‘a loathsome disease’: Sexual health in modern Britain

Review of periodical literature for 2021

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