I've recently held a casual research contract at Hertfordshire, collaborating with a social scientist. If universities benefit from humanities research, there's a case for them offering training in those disciplines! It's a real shame to see plans of closing humanities courses. c.org/fkmz9dSDn2

📅 Join us tomorrow! Be part of an engaging event on Tuesday 28 April at 5:30pm: “Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicines” org by @oxmedhum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yn5828vu @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social @ethoxcentre.bsky.social #Humanities #Health

Charity has played a role in the NHS since its foundation in 1948. How and why? This is the latest article from a research project on voluntarism in Britain's nationalised health service charityandthenhs.glasgow.ac.uk?page_id=546 #skystorians #healthpolicy #hospitals #histmed #philanthropy

New @mbhjournal.bsky.social article, co-written with Martin Gorsky, is out! ‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service 1948–74 Quant & qual analysis of charitable spending in 3 early NHS hospitals #histmed #skystorian doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social Read it here: openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0... Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

New @mbhjournal.bsky.social article, co-written with Martin Gorsky, is out! ‘Free From Doubt’? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service 1948–74 Quant & qual analysis of charitable spending in 3 early NHS hospitals #histmed #skystorian doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Some MA funding at Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science! #Masters #HistSci #Theology #PhilSci #skystorians

What can the British Film Institute's archive tell us about public mental health messaging? I think about this in my latest blog for @torchoxford.bsky.social, considering comms re MMR vaccines & autism, in-patient hospitals, electro-convulsive therapy & more torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

Latest blog on public mental health messaging and the British Film Institute’s archive #history #healthhumanities #mentalhealth #vaccines #publichealth torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

Latest blog on public mental health messaging and the British Film Institute’s archive #history #healthhumanities #mentalhealth #vaccines #publichealth torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

What can the British Film Institute's archive tell us about public mental health messaging? I think about this in my latest blog for @torchoxford.bsky.social, considering comms re MMR vaccines & autism, in-patient hospitals, electro-convulsive therapy & more torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

This looks like an amazing opportunity and a fascinating project #histmed #phd

Join us for our next seminar on 26 February, when @olibasciano.bsky.social (author of Outcast, F&F:2025) will be discussing the cultural legacy of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). Details below: Location: G08/ Hybrid (link below) Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

This looks fascinating!

Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)

Sounds like a great idea to make use of these wonderful rooms

Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds! Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to [email protected] More details at: sshm.org/sshm-2026-in... @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historynerdess.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #histmed

So useful!

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

It's advent, so here's a blog I wrote last year about how NHS hospitals have used charity to observe Christmas @bharchives.bsky.social www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...

Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles. Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Here’s our co-authored Intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social: Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School! The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se. Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...

I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The cost of living in London (six years ago) was the primary reason I did not do my PhD in London. Even with a stipend more generous than the UKRI’s, it would have been financially a ludicrous, practically unviable, decision. PhD students need to be treated and paid like independent adults

Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist

Thanks @berghahnbooks.bsky.social @mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.

Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!

~ Public Health Humanities Toolkit ~ Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!) www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Great to be in Berlin for #EAHMH25. Lots of fascinating papers in the programme!

Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences! Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been... Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social

A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is there some unspoken university policy where job rejection emails are sent late on a Friday afternoon, just as you’re trying to wind down and enjoy the weekend? Like guys, it’s miserable enough without you raining on my little Friday parade. Let me enjoy my ignorance for a few days.

🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨 CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... [typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution] #HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed

Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now: Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory #histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This project sounds fascinating! #phd #geography #healthhums

Join us for the next CHIPH seminar (in collab. with @psglshtm.bsky.social) on Thursday 15 May, when Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will be discussing state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico. Details below: Location: G24, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Here's the first blog for our new project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'. It explores the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries' sponsorship of sport in Britain. Like @fabiolacreed.bsky.social, I'm so happy to be working with such an amazing team!

Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below: Location: G40, Keppel St. Time: 12:45 - 14:00 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Seminar this week at the LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health! Details for joining are below #histmed

The LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health is now on Bluesky! Follow for info about events and research #histmed #histpsych #medhums #publichealth

👀 Funded PhD @ Coventry University: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory. 'The inquiry ... will select and investigate a series of objects or sites to explore the use of history as a tool for debating contemporary social and cultural issues' tinyurl.com/4zksy84y

Stay up-to-date with our research and events by signing up to receive the Recovery Histories monthly newsletter. Just follow the link to add your email address!: www.bbk.ac.uk/interests/se...

If you are working in UK record-keeping secto and based in the Midlands - do give our Midlands group a follow here: @aramidlands.bsky.social

I'll be doing two talks (Jan 25th, March 29th) at @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social to accompany their current exhibition: Charlotte Johnson Wahl's paintings of what it was like undergoing early exposure therapy at the Maudsley hospital in 1974. The event is free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-was-i...

I did the Health Humanities MA at UCL… quite a while ago now! Would recommend checking these courses out #histmed #healthhums

Interested in the history of health, heating & hygiene? 🤒😷🔥🌡️🛀🧼 There's still time to APPLY for the funded PhD studentship on the 'Carbon Bodies' project. ⏰ Deadline 24th Jan ⏰ The project: wellcome.org/grant-fundin... The job: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...