And the prize for creepiest image of the day goes to our good friend Frederick Hollick (courtesy of Wellcome)

Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900! See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Does anyone know of any work on the Victorian use of the word 'interesting' to describe women as a category - 'the most interesting part of humanity'? I keep finding it and its making my toes curl 😰

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

How. HOW. Are there still academic ebooks with no page numbers?! How.

🙌Call for Papers🙌 We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026 Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

I wonder if anyone tech-minded can help! I have two mac computers about 10 years old, both work fine and yet I've just discovered are now 'unsupported' by Apple and I can't update their OSs. Soon I won't be able to use key programs. Is there anything to be done?!

Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071 Please share widely!!

New article out today! 'The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable' focuses on how the illustrations for Matthew Baillie's morbid anatomy were made through collaborations with the artist William Clift and a team of engravers associated with the Royal Society. doi.org/10.1086/736874

Want to know more about obstetrical models, paper dolls, or play in medical education? Check out my new article in Material Culture Review about these little guys! journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...

Reminder that I am soliciting papers for my CAA 2025 panel "Anonymity in Art and Visual Culture." 📅 Deadline: August 29

My little bookish heart is bleeding! I just opened a new book from an academic press far enough for it to lie open, and about forty pages have burst from their 'glue' binding 😭

A fantastic summary of a term I have been wanting to know more about for a while. thepolyphony.org/2024/01/26/m...

What are visual culture people using to keep track of their images? I love Zotero for references and I tried Tropy but it couldn't talk across my two devices so I had to give that up... I'm drowning in medical book illustrations!

Does anyone know anything written about Gustave-Joseph Witkowski? Because I'm looking at his publication history and he seems too bonkers to be unstudied?? 👀

My (Mis)Conceptions project is collecting magical thinking during the trying to conceive experience. Do you have a story to share? Why not contribute it to future ttc communities? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...