What happens when archival research meets lived experience? After the birth of her son, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social began exploring how women’s bodies have been understood across history. Her new book uncovers hidden histories of the female body. 👉 bit.ly/4vhyG2y

Around 6.4% of the UK population report having self-harmed in their lifetime. But how is self-harm influenced by culture? Congratulations to @veronicaheney.bsky.social who has won a prestigious Wellcome Early Career award to re-configure understandings of self-harm. @durham.ac.uk

Last couple !!

We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

“What apple? In 1588 Violante Scaglione testified: ‘Adam’s apple was Eve’s butt, not the pit of the fruit that got stuck in his throat when he was called by God.’” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the real “forbidden fruit”

Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

I have two spaces left on this month's workshop. Get in touch if you're interested!

Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026. thepolyphony.org/2026/05/15/c...

Can I use this opportunity to recommend a well-reviewed book on the history of our attempts to understand, explain, treat and prevent lung cancer? academic.oup.com/shm/article-...

I've also written about the links between open air treatments for patients and the wider leisure movement including hiking in this free Open Access book: www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/ima... 3/3

I've written about multispecies encounters in these kinds of spaces in the early twentieth century here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... 2/3

I see that the book is currently available 50% off (& free UK shipping) from @yalebooks.bsky.social with code MAY26 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

My review of Evelyn Lord's 'The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665' is now available to view on H-Net's H-Sci-Med-Tech: networks.h-net.org/group/review...

New book review: Turner on Lord, Evelyn: _Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665, The_. Yale University Press, 2023. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20153016

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @claireturner.bsky.social (@durhamimh.bsky.social)’s review of Evelyn Lord’s book _The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665_, pub 2023 @yalebooks.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

The programme is now LIVE for my upcoming workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future' at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds (10 July 2026). Tickets are FREE and include lunch and an evening buffet. Get them before they're gone! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

Wish I could attend this event - it looks great. Thanks for organising it Claire. The event is supported by the Thackray Medical Research Trust. We do make grants for relevant HoM purposes. Our website and grant info is being updated and hopefully live soon.

The programme is now LIVE for my upcoming workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future' at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds (10 July 2026). Tickets are FREE and include lunch and an evening buffet. Get them before they're gone! www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

Just a reminder that Erin Maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social is speaking TODAY at 5.30 pm! For those of you who have missed registration, do feel free to just turn up (we can always find more chairs!) or send us a direct message for a Zoom link on bluesky or at [email protected]! ✨📚

We have a brand new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social. This time, we spoke with @harrymerritt.bsky.social about his brilliant new book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...

🥼 Have you been enjoying our online Lab Coat Lunch talk series? All these events have been recorded so if you missed any, you can catch up! 🌟 Watch the first event with speaker Matt Durran here: 📺️

Come along on to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear from @erinmaglaque.bsky.social, whose new book *Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body* is coming out with Penguin next month!

There's one place left to present at this workshop - I'm particularly keen to involve someone working in modern medicine and the senses (esp. sound, taste, touch). Would you like to give a 20-minute talk? Get in touch if so!

I’m delighted to finally share details of my upcoming workshop, ‘Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future’, an in-person, interactive event exploring the complex and fascinating relationship between bodies, health, medicine, and the senses. www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

I am excited to run a workshop called Malodorous Maladies and Reeking Remedies: Storytelling with Smells, on 10th July! 💉 This will be for Claire Turner's academic Medicine and the Senses event at Thackray Museum of Medicine. Book your place for the event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

I’m delighted to finally share details of my upcoming workshop, ‘Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future’, an in-person, interactive event exploring the complex and fascinating relationship between bodies, health, medicine, and the senses. www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-a...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social and Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social on 'Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England' #Birth #Motherhood #Pregnancy #Medicine #History 17thc 18thc 👶🌿🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany 9 June 6-8pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social welcomes @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social. Her book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness=wealth & thinness=poverty www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

Really looking forward to participating in this!

Please join us this coming Monday (12-1.30pm) for a free seminar on ‘Gender, Affective Injustice and “the Greatest Medical Scandal of the 21st Century”’. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... I’ll showcase some initial analysis of the 2025 Big Survey @actionforme.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

UPDATE - I'm postponing the online version of this event until the summer! Registration for an exciting event I'm hosting in Leeds in July will be opening in the next month.

Read our latest blog post about groundbreaking proteomics research on early modern medical and cosmetic recipes, by @stefanhanss.bsky.social and colleagues sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New article by MancHSTM PhD Alumna Dr Michaela Clark, on: Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa. #HistMed #HistSTM muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

🎬 How can arts and film reshape experiences of care at the end of life? Join us for this online talk with artist Steve Geliot, who will explore the powerful role of creative practice in hospice settings. 🗓 29 April 2026, 1–2pm (BST) Book for free 👇

It seems that books are a bit like buses... 'Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe' edited by Christine Ott, @jillburke.bsky.social and me is out now!! #EarlyModern Also including contributions from Alex Pyrges, Andrea Baldan, @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social, Pablo García Piñar, and Roberta Colbertaldo

I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Last day to apply!

Educated at an in independent school and then supported in the family home, able to borrow £20,000 from a grandmother, a doctor's son who was an A level pupil at Eton, a daughter gifted a house to do up by her mum, what might possibly distinguish these 5 successful non-graduates? 1/2

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

Just under two weeks left to apply for this programme! Please share.

ICYMI – Recordings from the one-day workshop 'The Senses and Medical Humanities' organised by @claireturner.bsky.social of our Affective Experience Lab are now available to watch online. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event! ▶️ medhumsplatform.org/the-senses-a...

🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)

In case you're interested: here is a list of recent accessions in #HistSTM at the @uomlibrary.bsky.social Special Collections blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

Our new exhibition is the first time I've curated something as a linear chronology. But a circuit round a room is not just a straight line, so I made sure we begin and end with the same image: one of the muscle men from Vesalius's 1543 Fabrica, showing up again in the 2001 New Atlas of Human Anatomy

It's been just over three (!) years since my first journal article was published with @sshmedicine.bsky.social. 'Intersensory Experiences of the Plague in Seventeenth-Century London' argues that sensory interactions were crucial to understanding how and why plague spread. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

Today I had the privilege of reading some of Florence Nightingale’s letters to a colleague concerning “salicylic silk”, a method of relieving the pain caused by cancer of the face in the nineteenth century. Huge thanks to the team at Thackray Museum of Medicine for letting me view these letters!