Returning from holidays to the delightful news that my book, based on my PhD, has just been published 🌟 Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550–1850 Buy from Boydell & Brewer for 35% off with code BB135 ⬇️ boydellandbrewer.com/book/mola-fa... #earlymodern #medhums

As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...

It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave! Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨ link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #history #histofsex

The next seminar in the Early Modern Circle is on Tuesday 19 August at 6pm at UniMelb ✨ Professor Timothy McCall from Villanova University will be presenting on the topic ‘Fighting for Anghiari’s Standards: Leonardo da Vinci and the Material Culture of War’ ⚔️ We hope to see you there!

This week, Australia and Britain mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week 📣 Learn more about the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence from #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social. #BirthTraumaAwareness #BirthTrauma #ObstetricViolence Read it here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢 I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori... #birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢 I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori... #birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰

Check out Lauren's fabulous new blog for @auswhn.bsky.social on history and tradwives 🔦

🏆The 2025 Hughes Prize for the best book in #histSTM, first published in 2023 or 2024, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists. Deadline Friday 11 April Nominations are invited from both individuals and publishers via form at www.bshs.org.uk/submissions-... #skystorians #histmed

PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage University of Leeds - School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP178/p...

Our first EMC seminar for the year takes place on Tuesday 15 April with Dr Sarah Bendall (@sarahabendall.bsky.social) ✨ Sarah is presenting “Celebrity, Scandal and Friendship: The social and business networks of female milliners in late 17th century London” 👒 All Melbourne-based folks welcome!

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

📢 JOB OPENING 📢 I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live! This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

My colleagues at Uni Melb kindly interviewed me about my PhD research and current postdoc project ✨ You can read here! 🤓 blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-resear...

In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...

❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗ The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟 For the zoom link, please email [email protected]

Check out @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social and I’s paper in the latest special issue of Health & History! Here we review some histories of reproduction and try to think through what might come next. Big thanks to Gayle Davis and Linda Bryder for steering the issue! ✨ muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

In our latest blog VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them. Fin it here: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/vilific...

A gross but interesting archive find this morning in the Wellcome! 19th century case notes of a patient who had ‘a caterpillar’ crawl from their nose whilst in hospital! 🐛😖

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

Today @cethompson.bsky.social interviews our 2024 NC prize runner-up Cara Delay. Learn more about Cara’s work on domestic health care and home births in Ireland by reading this fantastic interview! nursingclio.org/2025/03/05/i...

HDR members of the AHA are invited to take part in weekly Shut Up and Write sessions, beginning 17 March on Zoom! Contact [email protected] for more info!

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere. Discount code in replies 👇🏾

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗ Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the 2025 ANZSHM Conference - due tomorrow❗

In the lastest article on #VIDAblog, Caitlin Merlin (@caitlinmerlin.bsky.social) explores the history of the Ribbon Project and its impact on reducing the AIDS stigma in the early 1990s. #Ribbonproject www.auswhn.com.au/blog/you-can...

The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.

chng.it/WccdwysvFT Please sign to defend Academic Freedom & Pro-Palestinian Voices – Stand with Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah - Sign the Petition!

Caroline Darian is the daughter of Gisèle Pélicot. I've reviewed her memoir, a bracing account of the impact of her father's crimes on her and her family, for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/before-and-a...

We would LOVE to hear about your #premodern #body research and share it with a global audience through our monthly online speaker series! If you're interested, please send a 250 word abstract and short bio to [email protected] #EarlyModern #Medieval #SkyStorians #HistorySky #WhatsHistory

The Australian Women's History Network expresses dismay at the proposed cuts and redundancies impacting academic and professional staff at universities Australia-wide. Read more ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/wp-content/u...

Thanks @auswhn.bsky.social 🥳 so pleased!

Congratulations to Alana Piper on the launch of her new book, Yirranma Place: Stories of a #Darlinghurst Corner (NewSouth Publishing)! Another one for the #holiday stockings! Find out more in the latest #VIDAblog ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/women-o...

Come to Melbourne next year for lots of medieval and early modern fun 💫

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

Just for the record, medical misogyny is also thinking that women's body stops at the uterus and that we only have reproductive organs. It's not just gynaecological conditions; it's the whole approach to women's healthcare that has to be rethought. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Check out a new #VIDAblog from biographer Tessa Morris-Suzuki about the life of Ethel May Punshon. Known to her friends as Monte, this extraordinary woman's 106-year life crossed many boundaries. A great new book for the #Holiday stockings! Read here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/monte-p...

Call for papers for another great southern conference: The ANZ Society for the History of Medicine meeting at the University of Sydney, July 8-12, 2025. Closes February 28, 2025. Convenors Cate Storey, @hanspols.bsky.social, et al will surely make it a great occasion #histSTM #histmed #histsci

This is a truly appalling decision by the NZ government. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of HASS research in solving contemporary problems; it will impoverish knowledge of human behavior and creativity in the past and present. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

Today’s writing location: the beautiful State Library of Victoria! Trying to find inspiration to write the conclusion chapter of my book 😅

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

#VIDAblog managing editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social recently launched our new "Premodern Gender" series! In the latest blog, @markjmasterson.bsky.social explores the history of homoeroticism in histories from the tenth-century Byzantine empire 👑 Read here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/a-man-t...

The Australian Women's History Network promotes research + writing in all fields of feminist, gender + women’s history, bringing scholars, students + professionals together to share ideas + resources 🚺⚧️ We're thrilled to join you on @bsky.app – give us a follow! Find out more ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au

A nice sun break for research assistant kitty Sparrow today! 🐈‍⬛