Sorting books to sell. Got to this. Very reluctant to let it go even if I’ll never make use of it again! (Also it’s in good condition somehow 🧐)

The pre-publication version of my paper Imaging a Health Service Without Hospitals: French West Africa between the wars is available to read on my Manchester webpage. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

I’m delighted to say that my 1st article on healthcare in West Africa has been published today in Historia Hospitalium. Thanks to Axel von Huntelmann & Fritz Dross for inviting me to take part in the SI. Afraid it isn’t OA but let me know if you’d like a copy www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

@eurohealthhist.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social #Histmed #HistMidwifery

One could perhaps call this... two party politics?

I've made the move and joined Bluesky! Off to 'Our healthcare system, our voices:an evidence-based approach for healthcare' in Dublin today so it seemed like a good time to join Blueksy and network #MedHist #HistSTM #Introduction #NewToBluesky

Really proud to have been a Project Officer for this incredible project across Wales. Pride is not just history month or Pride Month it is all year round and small grass root projects do some incredible work for their communities all across Wales. I'm just thankful to play one small part.

📢 The news everyone was hoping for: #CFP deadline extended to 17Nov2025!!! 👇 @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social

Hi @urbanhistory.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

Hi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

Who’s your favourite Womble? 🤔

Sorry to hear of the death of Menzies Campbell. An important figure in the growth of the @libdems.org.uk When I worked for the Scottish Lib Dems in 1991 I shared a desk with Elspeth and spoke to Ming a few times. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I will be at the Jávea Archaeological Museum on October 3rd giving the lecture "A New Witch Hunt: Francoist Repression Against Spanish Midwives". @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @eurohealthhist.bsky.social #HistMidwifery #HistMed #HistScience #skymidwives #HealthHist #MedHums

Perhaps of interest to @eurohealthhist.bsky.social members as well?

In the real world the political battle is between Reform and the @libdems.org.uk This should be news but most outlets, including the #BBC give next to no coverage to the @libdems.org.uk Opinion polls are not real politics.

Public service announcement 📣 There are great deals on London to Paris #eurostar tickets at the moment.

Thanks @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social This is really important. If you are an author check to see if you were in the Lib Gen pirate library. Then stake a claim!

And hot on the heels of our #COST panels at #EAHMH25 last week in Berlin, this week our WG5 Heritage & Public Engagement group meet in #Leiden for 2 days exchanging perspectives on Valuable & Healing: Heritage Collections for & with Healthcare. Hybrid event - check your emails for details #CA22159

Save the Dates in your planners! The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed. Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026 University of Leeds @sshmedicine.bsky.social Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed

Hi @historylady2013.bsky.social Afraid I won't be in Birmingham next week. I've been so focused on @eurohealthhist.bsky.social that I've missed loads of cfps and really interesting conferences! But I will be at the @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference next year with my COST buddies!

Just discovered that @bsky.social require me to complete age verification to see dms. I kinda understand but I really, really don't want to do the whole age verification thing. What's a boy to do? 🤷🏻‍♂️

And if you’d like to join this amazing group find out how here www.cost.eu/actions/CA22...

Amazing to see how beneficial #COST support is in bringing people together to share their work, build opportunities, and kickstart collaborations, this time at #EAHMH25 #Berlin #MedicalHistoryMuseum #HumboldtUniversity @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social

Huge thanks to #EAHMH25 for hosting our #COSTAction #CA22159 where we had 30 presenters on @costprogramme.bsky.social sponsored panels. Massive thanks to @doravargha.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social for accommodating our Core committee meeting. Thanks to the OC for an excellent program #CA22159

A fab event! @millieqed.bsky.social

Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Nice to see this in a solid copy to accompany its open access version @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social Thanks to the editors Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer for sorting it.

Continuing the local theme “enjoy cold on Fyn and other fine places’!

I’m in Fyn @millieqed.bsky.social

And of course there was cake! Thanks very much to Liisa and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu.

Other papers today included Maria Aluas and Kevin Finnan compare early post war Romania and Ireland, Michele Mioni on Italian health insurance 1914-78 Mojca Ramsak on Slovenian Health insurance and Yusuf Celik and Ahmet Kucukkurt on Turkey’s slow journey to health insurance

Day 2 of our WG4 conference on Change or Continuity in European Healthcare. Keynote from Martin Gorsky on American and European divergence around 1945 followed by our host Liisa Lail on Sovietisation in Estonia, Katarzyna Sharla on HIV/AIDS in Poland

In lovely Tartu for the WG4 conference 1945:Change or Continuity in European Healthcare? Opening Keynote by Action chair @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social introduced by Olaf Mertelsmann head of the University’s History Institute and Sean Lucey WG4 Co-lead.

'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' appears in the RHS Camden Series of primary source editions bit.ly/46hGYxM 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' is part of the New Historical Perspectives book series bit.ly/4l4KXm3 2/2

I was at the same university as the excellent British comedian, author and tv personality @charliehigson.bsky.social in the early 1980s. During that time he came to my house - but I wasn’t there! (I was on campus doing some work but my house mate saw him 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Extremely pleased to have been approved as a new member of the EU COST Action @eurohealthhist.bsky.social and to join its Working Group on Healthcare, Heritage, and Public Engagement, including this exciting event later this week. See link below to join the network!

Gothenburg showing off in the sun today for #CA22159 @eurohealthhist.bsky.social 😎 Fab tour of City Museum by our knowledgeable guide Daniel, learning about Lillenhagen and Swedish mental health histories

"Blood", temporary exhibition at the #GothenburgMedicalHistoryMuseum, who are very kindly hosting our #CA22159 #WG5 2-day event "Transdisciplinary and collaborative research projects and Museum Collections as source material". @eurohealthhist.bsky.social

Many thanks to ASCALEMA for inviting me to give the opening lecture at the celebration of the International Midwives’ day las day 28th May @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social

Tonight I’m back in England at #GlasshouseInternational Gateshead to see @Spellsongs Let the Light In. Looking forward to it v much!

Ocelot’s Spleen, Badgers’ Noses!

Me with AJP Taylor in Salamanca? Apparently not - but Gonzalo Torrente Ballester en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo...

Shombody shay port wine tour 🍷 🥴

Today in our tour of Al Andalus we are at the Mesquita in Cordoba.

If you or anyone you know are in Hull and East Yorkshire, Reform are currently leading with Cons in second and Lib Dems third separated by just 3 points. Labour being squeezed so in our famous mantra “only the Lib Dems can stop Reform or the Tories”. www.markpack.org.uk/174630/stop-...

Sssshh, Secret Squirrel! 🐿️ (younger viewers might want to look that up!)

Think I’ve discovered what happened to the power in Spain and Portugal!