Looking forward to reading this book, which was delivered yesterday. I found Prichard one of the most interesting figures while researching Bristol’s medical history years ago.

Accidents during the black outs of WWII, a letter from Lucian Freud comments on “most people have scars either on their on their noses or foreheads from walking into posts.”

Much Ado About Nothing at RSC in Stratford. Loads of actors making their RSC debut in this performance and clearly having fun doing so.

A visit to the Anaesthetists Heritage Centre to round off another marathon day. I’ll sleep as soundly as one of Morton’s patients tonight.

Royal College of Obs and Gynae today with a visit to Hilda Lloyd, their first woman President and Bham prof of surgery.

Royal College of Obs and Gynae today with a visit to Hilda Lloyd, their first woman President and Bham prof of surgery.

Breakthrough moments in the Museum of the Order of St John yesterday at part of the medical simulation project.

Investigating the dental phantom at the British Dental Association in London today

So many songs about his 15-year old self I was starting to feel nervous being out on a school night.

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English Composition question in Brit. Optical Assoc. exam in 1939. I wish I could see the answers of students who wrote on “If I were a Dictator” question.

At British Optical Association Museum in London today where you can see the full range of spectacles offered as part of the NHS in 1948

Lucky I’m not in the quiet coach, as my book and the ad in this train carriage are striking up quite a conversation

Medicine in multicultural Birmingham in 1970. Simple Urdu for dental students as published in the student medical magazine.

New taxis for Bham or just here for Easter? I know I’d sooner take one of these than an Uber.

Congrats to Pieter on this interesting and relevant volume that has come out in the Clio Medica series I edit with Cathy McClive and Bogdan Iacob.

Bored my daughter on the way to the REP theatre in Brum last night by telling her all about Birmingham’s history as represented in this new painted egg.

Social Medicine emerged in the second half of the 20thC. In the 1970s medical school started adding community medicine to the revised curriculum. This interesting article by students in Bham published in 1970.

Ad for Warwickshire County Dental Service in spring 1970. Luncheon allowances and car loan scheme.

You can’t be more clear about it. They’ve showed their true colours.

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My neighbours don’t deserve that tree. Full magnolia explosion already.

Getting to know more of the midlands via its less travelled roads this weekend. Pleased to discover Copper Beech brewery at the end of this ride.

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Interesting trend as we enter a cashless economy. One for the future cultural historians. Tooth fairy might also have to find a way to go cashless. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Enjoyed a talk on #Birmingham pioneer, Dame Hilda Lloyd, by Prof Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social at The Exchange, UoB. She established obstetrical ‘Flying Squads’ in the city and in a small exhibition in the rear foyer you can see one of the flying squad cases on display plus a short film.

I find myself sounding a lot like Danny Glover these days.

I often think of the time I saw a large ballroom at a Hyatt Regency on a trip abroad that had been booked for a very expensive event for offer holders of a British university. I’ve never attended something as well catered at any university.

Next Tuesday: Tom Haigh on the history of AI. If you want to join us online, a streaming link will be available on the day of the seminar.

Two articles about theft and chocolate next to each other in the online newspaper. That’s the sign of a good editor.

From the New Yorker

Volume 108 on Dealing with Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine now out in Brill’s Clio Medica series. brill.com/display/titl...

Revelation. At Chancellors Building Edinburgh Medical School for tour of the medical simulation suite today. Free parking, coffees for under £2 and a bacon roll. Scotland is different, and in a good way.

R.D. Laing on his first visit to an asylum from his 1985 autobiography. Typical and amusing iconoclastic story by a central figure in the anti-psychiatry movement.

Pounds and publication from @midlandhistory.bsky.social.

I really do not care who shot JFK, but I think we all need to know what happened to Stephen Lawrence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m speaking about Hilda Lloyd at the Exchange, Birmingham on 26 March at 5:30pm. An attendance register from her student days, her honorary degree from Leeds Uni and a tour of Egypt are some of the items I’ll discuss.

We will be joining our @histparl.bsky.social and @georgianlords.bsky.social colleagues to speak about the resources our projects have to offer those interested in Midlands history on Thurs 3 April, 7-8 p.m. This online event is free to attend. Full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Lilian Lindsay was the first woman appointed Pres. of the British Dental Association and passionate about hist. of dentistry, so her 1946 Pres. Address bound to be full of history.

Dental work in a WW2 POW camp from Brit Dental Journal (1946) with drawing of bamboo dental chair by Lt Gimpson. Enjoy!

Some great lines on addiction in Kaveh Akbar’s novel, Martyr! If his Portrait of the Alcoholic is anything like this, it should be ideal for a humanities course on drugs and alcohol.

The set of the Birmingham REP’s current production of Death of a Salesman. My A-level-studying companion says she enjoyed it, I thought the American accents were surprisingly good.

My attempt at a graphic novel on the right. Ideas by Lucas and colouring by Rowan two West School Primary students in Paisley

Guess who said this in his autobiography? And if his country thinks other nations, including Canada, do not feel the same way about their countries, they will sow the seeds for long-term difficulties in foreign relations.

Working with Primary 6s in Paisley this week. Discussing remembrance in the run up of a red plaque ceremony at the school on 6 May to commemorate the service of two fallen firefighters.

Finished my day in London on Lupus Street in Pimlico, giving my third talk on War and Medicine to the PTI, an organisation that runs CPD courses for newly-qualified teachers. I’m glad Medicine through Time is still in the UK History curriculum.

Spent my weekend going through the records of the Casualties Union at Wellcome. The CU were formed in 1942 by Eric Claxton and perform as expert made-up simulated “casualties” often in collaboration with the Red Cross, Order of St John or many other organisations.

Smell and surgery, and the latest chapter of Covid and anosmia www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Hold on…pizza in a basement in Washington? But, I thought…