📣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!

Join @durhamimh.bsky.social on Weds 25 Mar, 1-2pm, to hear the brilliant Paulina Yurman talk about how speculative design, drawing & making can help us imagine alternative futures for spaces of care. Reg: shorturl.at/VS1Xq & share! Full event series programme: medhumsplatform.org/lab-coat-lun....

Planning to host an online-only version of this workshop in May (provisionally 20th). Let me know if you'd be interested in presenting your work - there are still several slots available!

We're excited to share a programme preview for our Measurement Heretics workshop! Starting tomorrow, this 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data. You can still book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

If anyone seeing this could use my book for research, or is thinking of assigning it but doesn't want students to pay too much for books, write me.

Here me talking sexy corpses on Radio 4 Front Row. (Episode also features Bridgerton and tourism tax) Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

To celebrate World Book Day, here are a few of the final stages in the cover design for my novel The Doom Town Dummies! Illustrated by Milena Bragina! ✨ Order your copy here: www.amazon.co.uk/Doom-Town-Du...

🏛️ 📚 Read this Open Letter! @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social & @coreenanne.bsky.social respond to the recent Wellcome report on the use of archives, manuscripts and material cultures in health research. medhumsplatform.org/open-letter-...

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Next month on Wednesday 25 March we have our second Lab Coat Lunch event! 🥼 We'll be welcoming Paulina Yurman to talk about her design research approaches & will present the visual & material methods at the heart of her Wellcome Trust-funded project. More here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maternal-m...

Brilliant turnout for my workshop on “The Senses and Medical Humanities” yesterday with @durhamimh.bsky.social. I’ll be hosting an online workshop in May and a further in-person showcase on 10 July at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Message me for further info!

Co-edited by our very own @drfijohnstone.bsky.social This landmark multi-format volume contains 29 contributions from more than 40 artists, art historians, and scholars in a range of countries, and spans artworks from the sixteenth century to the present day 🖼️ www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

We have a fabulous line up of speakers at The Senses and Medical Humanities! 📅 24 Feb, 10.30–4PM 📍Collingwood College, Durham A few tickets still available. Book now! @claireturner.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Delighted to share the programme for my upcoming workshop on 'The Senses and Medical Humanities', taking place at Durham University on 24 February. There are very few tickets left for this workshop, so get booking ASAP! Please get in touch with me for a text-only version of this programme.

Delighted to share the programme for my upcoming workshop on 'The Senses and Medical Humanities', taking place at Durham University on 24 February. There are very few tickets left for this workshop, so get booking ASAP! Please get in touch with me for a text-only version of this programme.

Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social has published a commentary in the journal Neurodiversity titled ‘Centring Tourettic Experiences in Technology: Tourette Syndrome, Median Nerve Stimulation, and the Role of Technoableism in Self-Harm and Stigma’. See more:

Opening today at Thackray Museum of Medicine! Beneath the Sheets: Anatomy, Art & Power A brand new exhibition about bodies and the people who reveal them.

📅 On Monday 9 February 5–6pm we are delighted to be hearing from @drhick.bsky.social about 'Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria'. This is a free, online event. More info and book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersecti...

Can you 'hear' disease? What does it feel like to 'smell' sickness? We're excited to be hosting a one-day in-person workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities. 📅 Tue 24 Feb, 11am–4pm Book your free spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

I'm delighted to share details of the first of two workshops I'm hosting this year on The Senses and Medical Humanities. The first workshop will take place in Durham on 24 February. Spaces are limited, so reserve yours now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

From London to Delhi, but especially Leeds. Nice to be featured in February's most anticipated new exhibitions worldwide.

📖 Our Measurement Heretics monthly reading group looks at work that engages with scientific, medical, and social measuring practices of past and present ⚖️ It's free to attend, online and open to all! The next session is 17 Feb, 3.30-5pm. Find out more & sign up 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

📣 @the-polyphony.bsky.social are now on LInkedIn! Follow this page for some of the most exciting work in the critical medical humanities, published by our talented editorial team 🤩

Pls share - a must for anyone interested in interdisciplinary working & material methods in the medical humanities! A truly innovative project by glass artist Matt Durran and the Royal Free Hospital. Weds 4th Feb (1-2pm, online, free). Register at shorturl.at/GpkG6 Full series: shorturl.at/T6WDE

In a sensory themed morning, Victoria will be joined by friend of the museum's smellscape @claireturner.bsky.social, who will be taking a sidestep from making our galleries smell like wee and poo to sniff out the stench of cancer. Should be a really interesting pair of lectures.

Next Saturday, our Insights lecture series will feature @victoriabates.bsky.social - author of Feeling Blue: Colour and the Modern British Hospital - who will be talking about colour and healthcare. thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...