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We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
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Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
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Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
https://bcatimelines.org/medicine-race-activism/
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Institute of Historical Research
about 21 hours ago
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH
buff.ly/yD11954
@brepols.net
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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
https://www.history.ac.uk/publications/bibliography-british-irish-history/using-bbih-online-help-pack-students-lecturers
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Sabina Leonelli
about 2 months ago
JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details
www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
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Jobs
https://www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbeitsgruppen/philosophy-and-history-of-science-and-technology/jobs/
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Military Welfare History Network
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@eahmh.bsky.social
@eahnursing.bsky.social
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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@sshmedicine.bsky.social
@sochistorywar.bsky.social
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American Association for the History of Medicine
about 2 months ago
The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo!
histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
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Buffalo 2026
Join us in Buffalo! Call for Papers 2026 Â The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) (https://histmed.org) invites abstracts for papers in any area of the history of health, healing,...
https://histmed.org/buffalo-2026/
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Military Welfare History Network
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@wellcometrust.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
@eahmh.bsky.social
@eahnursing.bsky.social
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
@aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it
#histmed
#trauma
#milwelfhist
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Ketil Slagstad
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Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte.
#histmed
fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/
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Förderpreis – Fachverband Medizingeschichte e.V.
https://fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
John Maiden
about 1 month ago
Our first
@ihr.bsky.social
Modern Religious History seminar of the year is 15 October at 17.30 UK time. Our speaker is
@alephross.bsky.social
. To book:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Skystorians
#history
@hannahelias.bsky.social
@dralanagharris.bsky.social
@graceheaton.bsky.social
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Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body
This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/sex-health-anglo-jewish-body
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
about 1 month ago
🔜 Soutenance de thèse de doctorat en sciences, techniques et sociétés de Celia Mir Alvarez "Building public health inaction. The chase for air quality data in Morocco" 🗓️ 16 octobre 2025 ➡️
bit.ly/3VRirJC
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
about 1 month ago
📚 Journées d’étude « La culture psychologique : actualités d’un concept » Comment les savoirs psy façonnent-ils nos sociétés ? 📅 18–19 nov. 2025 – Campus Condorcet ➡️
bit.ly/4mSUih0
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History
about 1 month ago
Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by
#EnvHist
scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow
@esehnextgate.bsky.social
for upcoming events!
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Dr Vanessa
about 1 month ago
#jobfairy
- don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away!
#skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
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Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/assistant-professor-in-irish-and-or-european-medieval-history
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
about 1 month ago
Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss...
#histmed
#histSTM
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AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene
Notes from the trash-heap of medical history focuses on everyday technologies of health and medicine in the 20th century.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-sshm-lecture-2025-with-jeremy-greene-tickets-1668016896439?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A17evexy%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTYyMzAyNzg1MS4xNzU3MDc2MTkz%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTcwNzYxOTIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTcwNzYxOTIkajYwJGwwJGgw
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Institute of Historical Research
about 1 month ago
It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025.
#HistDay25
Together with
@senatehouselib.bsky.social
we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot.
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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History Day
History Day and the History Day: Discover Collections website bring together researchers and collections in-person and online
https://www.history.ac.uk/library-digital/history-day
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
about 1 month ago
Deadline approaching! Are you organising a
#histmed
conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
sshm.org/conference-f...
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Conference Funding
The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…
https://sshm.org/conference-funding/
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NiCHE Canada
about 1 month ago
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History -
@envirohistory.bsky.social
@aseh.bsky.social
&
@foresthistory.bsky.social
seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...
#envhist
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Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...
https://niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/applicants-sought-for-editor-of-environmental-history-2/
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Dr Anna Jamieson
about 2 months ago
Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story!
@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/object-stories-in-health-and-medicine-1700-1900
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ICEHO
about 1 month ago
Latin America's regional environmental history conference, SOLCHA, took place in July this year in lovely Rio de Janeiro. Read the report by ICEHO President Claudia Leal on our website! And take note: in 2027, SOLCHA will take place in Mendoza, Argentina.
#envhist
#historiaambiental
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Alive and Kicking: Solcha's 12th Symposium — ICEHO
The 12th symposium of SOLCHA in Rio de Janeiro, 2025, was a huge success boding well for the future of environmental history in Latin America.
https://www.iceho.org/news/2025/9/18/alive-and-kicking-solchas-12th-symposium
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800
about 1 month ago
We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/..
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Voices of Motherhood
about 1 month ago
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
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Institute of Historical Research
about 1 month ago
🎉The call for participation for
#HAP26
is now open! Alongside
@nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
,
@royalhistsoc.org
&
@unisheffieldlib.bsky.social
we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today:
bit.ly/46VfEVY
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NiCHE Canada
about 1 month ago
Today
@nulybranch.bsky.social
introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...
#envhist
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Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
https://niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/archival-outliers-invented-ephemerals-in-constructing-environmental-histories/
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American Society for Environmental History
about 1 month ago
Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website:
www.aseh.org
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UB History
about 2 months ago
New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from
@illinoispress.bsky.social
! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record.
#dishist
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Environmental History Now
about 2 months ago
A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week:
envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e...
#envhist
#envhum
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EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective
A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and t…
https://envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/ehns-7th-anniversary-retrospective/
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
about 2 months ago
CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the
@kthabitproject.bsky.social
to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
@lshtm.bsky.social
on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed
#medhumanities
#histSTM
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BSHS
about 2 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to the winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Small Exhibition): Capturing the Stars: The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory @University of Chicago Library. An inspiring exhibition revealing the hidden contributions of women in astronomy from 1900–1933. 🧵
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BSHS
about 2 months ago
🏆 Joint Winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition): Breaking Ground @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Exploring fossils, palaeontology networks, and the hidden contributions of women, labourers and miners in 19th-century science. Learn more below 🧵
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BSHS
about 2 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to the joint winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition Category): Measuring Difference @ Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. A bilingual exhibition showing Latin America as a space of scientific innovation, 🧵
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Fabian Krautwald
about 2 months ago
Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar
@ihr.bsky.social
. Check out our fall program here:
history.ac.uk/news-events/..
. If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!
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Institute of Historical Research
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history
https://history.ac.uk/news-events/..
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Matthew Cobb
about 2 months ago
News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, DelbrĂĽck etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n
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History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/about/projects-initiatives/history-of-molecular-biology-collection/
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
about 2 months ago
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) founded in 1918 as the Firemen's Trade Union began as a body based around the London area, but soon expanded to include provincial brigades.
#EmergencyServicesDay
Copies of the FBU journal 'Firefighter' can be viewed here:
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
RCN History of Nursing Forum
2 months ago
One for
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Barry Doyle
2 months ago
Save the Dates in your planners! The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference
#SSHM2026
are now confirmed. Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026 University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Theme and CFPs to follow later
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
2 months ago
The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage
#histmed
#histSTM
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SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025
Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…
https://sshm.org/sshm-agm/
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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)
2 months ago
We’re hiring! We are currently recruiting for a 3-year Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit:
http://bit.ly/45MipZl
Closing Date: 5th October 2025
#nature
#environment
#society
#WeAreSTS
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Big congratulations 🎉 to Jorinde Wels from KU Leuven for winning the
#eahmh25
Pieter van Foreest Prize 🏆 for best student presentation!
2 months ago
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
Dora Vargha
2 months ago
Medicine on a Larger Scale launched with an inspiring conversation and…. that’s a wrap for
#eahmh25
! Thanks to all who made this conference a truly wonderful affair. See you in two years in Prague!
@eahmh.bsky.social
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Dora Vargha
2 months ago
Join us this evening to the book launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale with many
#eahmh25
participants, our keynote Projit Mukharji and drinks, of course! Lettretage, 18:00 today!
@eahmh.bsky.social
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Alila Brossard
2 months ago
#EAHMH25
very interesting panel on Disease Ecologies with excellent papers on Malaria, Dengue, Influenza and Rabies. Reflections on health education, environment and industry.
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Dora Vargha
2 months ago
if you liked
#eahmh25
in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of
@eahmh.bsky.social
, Katerina Liskova!
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And.... after a terrific conference in Berlin, the next
#eahmh25
conference will be in Prague. See you all in Czech at
#eahmh27
!
2 months ago
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Benoît Majerus
2 months ago
@hanspols.bsky.social
finishes the panel by putting the focus on the civil sector involvement in 1980s
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Elsa Richardson on Battle Creek Sanatorium's historical push for good germs & (often bland) diets!
#eahmh25
2 months ago
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Benoît Majerus
2 months ago
@pederclark.bsky.social
is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song
#eahmh25
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The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode HD
YouTube video by themosttogain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T8K2D-ps
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Benoît Majerus
2 months ago
Eric Engstrom uses the panel chaired by Catherine Coleborne on deinstitutionalisation to announce the reboot of the journal "History of Psychiatry" (
@journals.sagepub.com
) who has structured the field since 1990
#eahmh25
#histpsych
#histmed
#newcovertocome
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Benoît Majerus
2 months ago
Catherine Coleborne opens the panel by talking about early post-institutional care (1907-1930)
#deinstitutionalisationbeforedeinstitutionalisation
#movingthechronology
#eahmh25
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Dora Vargha
2 months ago
River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at
#eahmh25
#histmed
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Ketil Slagstad
2 months ago
I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world.
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#histmed
#EAHMH25
#sts
#histsci
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Now onto
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's Jules Villa on field-based perspectives on the Zaire monkeypox project (1981-1986)!
#eahmh25
2 months ago
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