This term we have launched Books and Book History at UCL Special Collections, a new MA module collaboratively designed and delivered by us and @uclhistory.bsky.social. This thread is the first in the series of student-produced posts highlighting our book history adventures! Post: Sabrina Wiggins

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

Interested in war machines? Join the Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG to discuss Lauren Rozenberg's paper: "Guido da Vigevano's Medical and Technological Conquest of the Holy Land" on FRI March 8th @ 11 EST, w/ Jess Bailey. Paper & zoom link tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histstm #visualculture #histmed

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️ societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...

Join the @chstmorg Objects, Images & Spaces of Health group on Fri Feb 9th @ 11 am EST to discuss Sharon Strocchia's fabulous paper on Indies Balsam in Renaissance Italy, w/ a comment by Mackenzie Cooley. Zoom link & paper @ tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx. #histmed #histstm #materialhistory #earlymodern

Join the Objects, Images and Spaces of Health WG to celebrate the publication of Heidi Hausse's new bk - The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans and Amputees in EM Germany on Jan 12th @ 11 EST! Heidi will be in conversation w/ Pamela Long, Alisha Rankin and Paolo Savoia. Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx

oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.

Early career fellowships schemes at the IHR in London! #earlymodern #hstm

Published today, online open access and in print: Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative perspectives, 1650-1800, Edited by Jon Stobart: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210...

Hello fellow historians of medicine, science and technology, I made a #histstm feed. Post to it simply by adding the #histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech hashtags, add the feed here bsky.app/profile/did:... And please help spread the word 🙏

Fancy learning more about #earlymodern beauty recipes? Want to make your own early modern lip salve? Join @EMRecipesOnline's annual transcribathon on Friday to learn more about manuscripts from @ExploreWellcome and @RCPmuseum. Details: tinyurl.com/yes2d3h2. #histmed #histsci #materialculture

Great news this morning for #histsci: British Society for the History of Science announces that research articles in Brit.Jnl. for Hist. Sci. will now be #openaccess, even though the society's council recognises this will have 'major implications for our finances'. www.bshs.org.uk/update-from-...

This Friday 10th November @ 11 EST on Zoom! Claire Burridge on "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights" at the CHSM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histstm #medieval #recipestudies

I've been eating peaches for a cause & today is the day! I'm making a 17th century hand scrub w/ Julia Nurse & @historyfinn.bsky.social @ Wellcome Collections in preparation for the EMROC annual transcribathon. Theme this year? Beauty by the books. Details: tinyurl.com/47p8uvfs #histstm #earlymodern

Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts

Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at UCL East, working with Adam Crymble and colleagues - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Just in case anyone wondered, the title of Tara Nummedal's presentation for the CHSTM OISH session is: "'The Männel is a root, it should be called an Allraune': A Mandrake, Magic, and Money in Seventeenth-Century Saxony"... happy weekend, all! #earlymodern #planthistory #archivalhistory

Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds at the CHSTM Objects, Images and Spaces of Health working group on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow

🥁 The next conference of the ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) will be in Barcelona from 4 to 7 September 2024, #ESHS2024. Call for for Proposals in the Conference website, open until November 22 ⤵️ eventum.upf.edu/94068/detail...

Two weeks left to pitch ideas for the 2023 Osiris call for proposals! Questions? Send us an email at osiris[at]bbqplus.org. #histsci #histmed #envhist #histknow Ahmed Ragab, Myrna Sheldon Perez and I look forward to discussing your projects with you!

*tap mics* Is this thing on? Hello, fellow BlueSky historians! This is the BlueSky app account for the media and curriculum database #WomenAlsoKnowHistory. Our goals are to share, celebrate, and uplift the lives and work of women and nonbinary historians. womenalsoknowhistory.com

Interested in #histmed #histsci #visualculture? Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group this Friday @ 12 EST to discuss Stephanie O'Rourke's paper titled "Figuring Racial Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century France". Details, Zoom link and paper: tinyurl.com/454v9ze9

Got an idea for a collaborative publication and want to brainstorm with likeminded scholars? Curious about crafting proposals for journal special issues? Join Osiris co-editor Ahmed Ragab for an online brainstorming session on September 19th. Details for brainstorming session: tinyurl.com/bdh4avu4

Are you working on a collaborative project and looking for a home for your publication? The 2023 Osiris call for proposals is now open. We welcome expressions of interest by October 15th. For more details, see tinyurl.com/y4u4rw7p.