The day job got me thinking about the history of prisons, especially during the Great War. So I thought I’d do some secondary reading (which also means I’m putting off finishing my 2 upcoming papers)

A quick search throws up a few bits and pieces on prisons and prisoners during the First World War, but not much, if anyone has any suggestions I’d be grateful.

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

It’s Birmingham Heritage Week #BHW2025! Find out more about Birmingham Municipal Bank, a unique council run bank where ‘pennies were welcome’ and its place as ‘the people’s bank’ 🗓️Weds 17 Sept 6:00-7:30pm at The Exchange (former Head Office of the bank built in 1933) Free but booking recommended

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

has anyone done a #histmed or #histSTM study of changes to representations of health/medicine/science in the ladybird books? On a small scale feels like an amazing ug diss project, or even something smaller than that with just a few books.

Join us in Berlin on the 29th!

In remembrance on the anniversary of the atomic bombing 80 years ago, a picture of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park, which I visited in 2013. A very sobering experience indeed, but there is a marvellous upbeat atmosphere in the surrounding city. Friendliness everywhere.

A command bunker on the West Wall/Siegfried Line today. Fascinating trip around some #WWII landmarks in #Luxembourg

There are a few tickets left for my talk & book signing at NAM on 20 September. This is my unofficial book launch as I won’t be having a proper do due to other commitments so would be great to see all my pals there to enjoy a fab line up of speakers and the new exhibition!

This is *definitely* worth reading. New article in Medical History, 'Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain' (downloadable OA version via the link 👇). #HistSTM #DisHist #Eugenics #ReproHist

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast! In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

🦠 What if the smallest organisms could solve one of our biggest pollution problems? At @uni.lu, Prof. Anupam Sengupta and his team are using microbes to replace harmful #microplastic additives, with sustainable, custom-made biominerals. The future? Cleaner, greener… and microbially engineered.

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people! Weds 25 June 10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online #skystorians

🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay) #histmed #histstm jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Gooseberry tart!

(Call for Papers) Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/mede... #histSTM #medhum

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? The graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/i...

Here is a portrait of a facially-injured French soldier from #WWI drawn by the very skilled artist #RaphaelFreida, born #OTD in 1877. He collaborated with #AlbericPont, a dentist who opened one of the first specialist units for facial trauma in Lyon. 23 of Freida’s portraits of these men survive.

My nautical lino prints have been flying out lately (thank you! 🪸), but my food & drink prints are feeling a bit… neglected. 🍋 oysters, gin, lemons, etc for your kitchen wall! (Plus more) If you’d like to support a small artist, please do share my work. Thank you! sundownerstudio.co.uk

A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

#OTD 1964, my father’s diary entry. I think the reason I get a mention before all the other farm activities is related to my arrival in the small hours…

Nurses have always played an important humanitarian role in response to crisis and war. This lantern slide from our collection is particularly poignant and shows nurses walking through a #WW1 trench. #InternationalNursesDay #HistNursing

Happy International Nurses’ Day!

Registration for our PHRC25 Conference Photography, Value, History is open! We have two amazing keynotes, Catherine Troiano (V&A) and Donna West Brett (University of Sydney) and a wonderful line up photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... It's hybrid so come to Leicester or attend online!

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

'Military welfare and the sea/on the sea/by the sea' ... the possibilities are endless! Do consider putting a paper or a panel asap! #milwelfhist

Call for abstracts! This will be of interest to many Members and Followers #milwelfhist #WW1 #empathy

[B] De Gruyter Brill: Junior Acquisitions Editor Theology (f/m/d) bei de Gruyter Brill, ohne Bewerbungsfrist #job @degruyterbrill.bsky.social#job https://de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/tzg11sm2947jpxc94nwvw6pxxl8o7q9

📣Call for Papers📣 For the international conference, 'Between Marginal and Mainstream: Negotiating Experimental Practices and Medical Knowledge, 1600–1900' to be held at the University of Helsinki on 11–13 March 2026. Deadline for proposals: 8 June 2025 #histmed #histSTM

We are hugely excited to launch this new prize. The International Society for First World War Studies is absolutely dedicated to supporting ECRs and we view this as an amazing opportunity to start inspiring the next generation of scholars examining the First World War! 🗃️

Been a shit start to the week. Lost a much loved family member in the early hours of today. Far too soon. Fuck cancer.

#histmed #histpsych

ICYMI, but also to say that Gertrude's surgical practitioners include Mr Sharp and Mrs Pain. How can that not appeal?

Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London. The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC. 👇👇👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... 🗃️

After rail chaos forced the cancellation of the previous date, I'm trying again with my lunchtime talk @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social in June. Do come along or book to watch on line. www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/it-... #ww1 #fww #milhist #histmed #miltarymedicine

(New Book) The Nurses of Ellis Island. Life and Work inside the Golden Door histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/03/les-... #histnursing

www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... @pachuki.bsky.social in the History@Play series organised at @c2dh.uni.lu by Sandra Camarda. #VideoGames #PublicHistory #Game

Happy St Patrick’s Day! ☘️

Job Klaxon: History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine Professorship at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Do I know any #DisHist #HistSTM #Histmed #HistPsych #HistNuring folks putting in an abstract for/going to EAHMH in Berlin?

Delighted to announce that I have joined the History Team at @museumofchildhood.bsky.social

If interested in changing attitudes to motherhood, radio as health comms, women's voices & medic's expanding responsibilities, my new article explores “Woman’s Hour or Mother’s Hour”: Postnatal Depression Narratives, Treatment and Reception on BBC Radio, 1946–85 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

If you are planning to attend the panel discussion, do let me know if you have any questions about #EarlyModern women's health that you'd like us to answer! Such interesting examples in the manuscripts.