Available now wherever you buy your #history of rickets books, including directly from the U. Chicago Press site! 🗃️https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo236934960.html

Fascinating stuff from the CMS' own Dr Evan Jones!

Pleased as punch to see included in Ben Railton's @americanstudier.bsky.social #ScholarSunday this week my blog post about why rickets (and other deficiency diseases) should be reportable! americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants! Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

🚨new article on mixed identities in Morocco🚨 how did mixed families construct their identity and navigate discrimination in the 20th and 21st century? 🇲🇦 find out here, baby… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋 @goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR

In this new blog post, Bristol History student Hannah Clark reflects on her summer internship working with Professor Sumita Mukherjee on a public digital resource called ‘South Asian Britain: Connections and Networks.’ Read more here: historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy 📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv

Bristol historians all dressed up for graduation. It’s an absolute highlight of the year getting to celebrate the many achievements of our history students!

Big news - the IGRCT has a new website! We've migrated to igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk. Watch this space for exciting new event listings in the upcoming academic year.

'A perceptive critical study that recognizes the power of images and the need to explain them.' Dr Laurence Publicover's (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) book, Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy, is reviewed in this week's @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

✍️ Dr @ellencssmith.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) introduces us to her Imperial Letters project which explores how the correspondence of British families in India shaped public opinion of empire in the 19th & 20th centuries Find out more this South Asian Heritage Month 👉 bit.ly/45chAIX

I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.

Congratulations to the organizers of The Moving Past. The site offers an interesting collection of digitized archival films from the 1910s-1920s. www.themovingpast.com

Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Hear more about Vanessa Northington Gamble’s work from this time - on wrong- doing and ethics - here: ethicsinpractice.net/episode/apol...

🔊 New Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @memorystudies.bsky.social

We're in Bristol 24/7! www.bristol247.com/culture/thea...

My first podcast experience! Many thanks to Miranda & @NewBooksNetwork for inviting me to talk about my book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZVI... /Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

I'm looking forward to reading this book over the summer! Congratulations to Tom Arnold-Forster, a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, for bringing this amazing intellectual biography to print. #ushistory #walterlippmann #biography

Congratulations to Bristol PhD student, Jenny Hutton, on her recent NLM blog posting about her historical research. @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social Medically Manufactured: The Story of Retrolental Fibroplasia circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2025/06/12/m...

Thanks to editor in chief, Jacalyn Duffin, for overseeing this new Oxford Bibliographies medical history collection. I was pleased to offer a starting point for research into the history of rehabilitation and disability. @oxfordunipress.bsky.social www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

📻 Dr Amy Edwards (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins David Dimbleby on BBC Radio 4 #InvisibleHands to discuss the use of advertising to promote Margaret Thatcher's BT privatisation campaign in the 1980s Listen to the full programme 👉 bit.ly/4dYngsF @somsproject.bsky.social

'Intimate Subjects includes some irresistible case studies that illustrate the myriad ways in which touch was navigated and examined in the period.' Dr Simeon Koole's (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) book, Intimate Subjects, is reviewed in this week's @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@victoriabates.bsky.social kindly interviewed @kellygcb.bsky.social & I for her new podcast on impact activities at Uni of Bristol. We talk about the ongoing collaboration with Professor Sam Goodman & re-launched series of talks: Think While You Drink humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...

'Medieval men and women rarely wrote their own love letters, relying instead on the services of scribes.' Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) & Myra Stokes's co-edited critical anthology, Medieval Love Letters, is reviewed in this week's TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/history/medi...

A fantastic line up- including our very own Sim Koole’s Intimate Subjects!

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨ There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨

Massive congratulations @amycking.bsky.social !

Our CMS PGRs are busy bees at the moment 🐝 getting ready for the CMS PGR conference! #medievalsky

Is attendance at our next online talk in your future? Come along next week to Dr Will Pooley on 'Tarot and Cartomancy in France from the French Revolution to the 20th Century'. Tues 15 April 2025, 19:00-20:30 BST. Tickets £6 (£4 for FLS Members with Promo Code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...

Some thoughts on French courts 1790-1940 pardoning witch-killers and punishing magical fraudsters. When did examples have to be set? williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/p... 🗃️

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more! www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Just published - ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Today on Historians at Bristol we’re X-posting an Arts Matter blog by Keith McLoughlin on Concorde and recent efforts to break the sound barrier 👂 ✈️ historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

There are still tickets for this online talk I’m giving next Tuesday. As I like to say, ‘come for the #Tarot, stay for the cartomancy’. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...?

A total joy to officially launch my book yesterday with the help of @georgenewth.bsky.social! So lovely to see friends and students from different departments and big thanks to the 🇮🇹 department for hosting (and to Asda for the book cake 😂)