Coming up in Zagreb 26-27 May 2026 is 'The Fight against TB in Europe and its colonies 1850 - 1970s' - a much anticipated HYBRID event, with a fabulous program. Thanks to Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts for hosting. 👉Program & link via email #MedHums #HistMed #TB #HealthResearch #Skystorians

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Registration now open! Faecal-oral diseases and 'Sanitary Revolutions' - the long view Cambridge 15-16 June 2026 Free to attend (some funding available to support travel and accomodation for early career & student presenters). see sshm.org/upcoming-his... #histmed @camunicampop.bsky.social

Departmental Lectureship in History of Medicine at University of Oxford Full time fixed term Deadline for applications 27 May

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/...

#MedievalSky #histmed #EpiSky Three (THREE, 3, III) postdoc positions available at University of Exeter ( @exeter.ac.uk ) on ancient/medieval history of smallpox & measles. Deadline: 20 May 2026.

This coming Tuesday #medievalsky #disabilitystudies #histmed

Program issued and it is going to be GREAT! Join us online or in-person this week 7 & May 2026 for Ethical Considerations in Medical Museums & #GLAM Thanks to our hosts Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Cluj #Museum #Archives #Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159

Brilliant presentations from @cshhh.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social PhD and ex-MSc students about their research which forms a special issue of the Ex Historia journal on the theme of ‘Resistance’. This stems from the 2024 @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference. #histmed

Join us for our talk on medieval disability next week. 5 May 2pm. To attend online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/zMBAKAxSpP. All welcome. Free. #medievalsky #histmed #disabilitystudies #disability

Friends in #histmed #photohist #histsci, do you teach a class/module on the visual culture of medicine/ medicine and art/ visual culture of science/ any other variation that could use a book on the history of medical photography? I'd be very interested to know! thank you!!

Once a month some people ... attend Casebooks Therapy. Join us Weds 29 Apr, 3pm CEST to read #astrology #histmed #earlymodern #manuscripts. DM @laurenkassell.bsky.social for the link. @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social @jakubochocinski.bsky.social @camdiglib.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Write for us! Call for blogposts now open to 15 May 😎

📣Event 📣'Resistance' Postgraduate Special Issue Launch @cshhh.bsky.social 📆28th of April 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (BST) Strathclyde Business School, Stenhouse Wing, SW204 10-minute talks from authors on their published articles, followed by Q&A. #histmed @ecrichardson.bsky.social

📣CFPs 📣 Mediating Behaviours Symposium The National Archives, Kew, London 📆Thurs 2 July 2026 Will be of interest to those interested in social history, queer history and #medhumanities #histmed Deadline for CPPs is 30 April

📣Event 📣'Resistance' Postgraduate Special Issue Launch @cshhh.bsky.social 📆28th of April 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (BST) Strathclyde Business School, Stenhouse Wing, SW204 10-minute talks from authors on their published articles, followed by Q&A. #histmed @ecrichardson.bsky.social

This is hybrid, join us online! #histmed #histstm

Sharing again for the morning Bluesky! Our conference programme - Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces is now available & booking is open. All are most welcome @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May #histmed #skystorians

This Fri 24 April 2026 WG1 lunchtime seminar 1pm CET Prof Matin Gorsky will speak on the Making of Health Policy in Britain & NZ Check email / bulletin for meeting link #Skystorians #HistMed #MedHums #CA22159

McGill University and University of Ottawa 2026 Special Event Histories of Global Mental Health: An International Conference 25-26 June 2026 Montreal, Canada Full details available at: www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/trai... #histmed

The next meeting of 'Medieval European Medical Manuscripts' of the CHSTM is on April 23. Melissa Reynolds (Texas Christian University) will be speaking on 'The Material Culture of Later Medieval English Medicine'. www.chstm.org/group/mediev... #histmed #histstm

Check out this very interesting CFPs! Relevant to #histmed #histsex

This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment. In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online 📆28 Apr 2026 🕰️16:30 – 18:30 To register 👇

So glad to see that this edited volume by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich to which I contributed a chapter is now available free-to-read on UPLOpen uplopen.com/books/e/10.7... 🗃️ #histmed #booksky

Please Note NEW TIME: 12pm BST (UK & Irl) / 1pm CET (Europe) Please join our Seminar series jointly organised between Working Group 1 & 4 on 16 April 2026 where Prof Barry Doyle will talk on 'What is a Hospital'. Check your email for meeting links #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians #HealthHist

Delighted to welcome keynote Dr Juliana Adelman, DCU to our #HSTM 2026 Annual Meeting. The keynote: Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland will be hosted @unioflimerick.bsky.social 24 April 5.30pm #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians

Don't forget next Wed 15 April - WG5 lunchtime seminar series with @chendirl.bsky.social speaking on Voluntary Gravedigging as Living Heritage #DeathStudies #Heritage #GLAM #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth

Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain 18 June 2026 at Uni of Warwick Hosted by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social & Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology supported by @sslh.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social Booking now open #histmed #histSTM

Just in case you missed it! April isssue of The Gazette is now available to download with news of #histmed events and #SSHM2026 plus links to our latest publications sshm.org/wp-content/u...

Forthcoming publication in SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Out September 2026! #histmed

Call For Papers: 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬. 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 ---------------- 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥: www.medici.org/cfp-tuscany-... ---------------- #CSMBR #MediciArchive #KnowledgeCriculation #Tuscany #Florence #IberianPeninsula

We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care. ⁠ ⁠⁠ Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship #histmed #fellowship

🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔 New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way. #HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social It is with great pleasure that we present a selection of recorded papers from our recent funded conference series. Listen to them here #milwelfhist #histmed #military #welfare #benefits historyhub.ie/military-com...

Who Cares? Conference 2026 : the videos of our keynote speakers, Andrew Scull & Erika Dyck are now available online : whocares.hypotheses.org/keynote-spea... Many thanks to both of them 🤗 @clairedeligny.bsky.social @embfauquert.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @creananterre.bsky.social

Sadly can't get beamed into Oxford for launch of this collection on antecedents of public health, edited by Guy Geltner et al. Perhaps another launch back in Melbourne, Guy? #histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

For researchers: a useful list of techniques to sharpen your googling. h/t @alondra.bsky.social #skystorians #histsci #histmed #histtech

Applications are closing soon! ⏰ The 2026 History of Healthcare Awards offer funding to support research in uncovering the answers from the past that may shape tomorrow’s health care. Deadline to submit applications is April 1 at 5:00 pm (ET). Apply now: buff.ly/wKwoSTP #HistMed

🛎️ Postdoc opportunity 🛎️ 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Deadline April 5th. #histmed #histstm hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j...

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia Program: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F... Registration: forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQj... #histmed #histstm

📣Registration is now open 📣 for #SSHM2026 The Society's biennial conference In/Out will be held at University of Leeds 30 June -3 July 2026 #histmed

This free #online session from the research team at The National Archives explores the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma. Suitable for the archivist, researcher, or heritage professional 📆Weds 15 April 🕰️1:00 - 2:00 pm GMT+1 #histmed

This Wednesday! We wrap up our seminar series this term with: 'Medical Diasporas: Chinese Medicine in London and a Family Case Study' – Jieluan Huang 🗓️ Wednesday 25 March 🕰️ 15.30-17.00 📍8th floor, Strand building #histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, & the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 2 of our #WhoCares2026 conference: a wonderful guided tour of the medical library at Ste Anne Hospital (bibliotheques.ghu-paris.fr/index.php?lv...), and then back to Nanterre for fascinating presentations 🤓 With the kind support of @sshmedicine.bsky.social & @creananterre.bsky.social

Who Cares 2026 Day 3: many thanks to our keynote Erika Dyck for such a great talk on psychedelics 🍄 & to @clairedeligny.bsky.social 👌 Deeply grateful to everyone for a fantastic 3-day conference!! See you next year for "Circulations & Transfers" @sshmedicine.bsky.social @creananterre.bsky.social

1st day of our #WhoCares2026 conference at Paris Nanterre! Pr Andrew Scull gave the opening lecture & the day was dedicated to fascinating presentations on theories & policies in the history of psychiatry! With the kind support of @sshmedicine.bsky.social & @creananterre.bsky.social

Check out @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social YouTube channel with recordings of their lecture series For example, January’s lecture by @monicamedhist.bsky.social 👇 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social youtu.be/hHErGu2nRzs

Santorio Award for Excellence in Research! This biannual award is designed to support and promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science, focusing on Europe and the Mediterranean, 500-1800. See the link for more details: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/grants-and-a... #histmed

📢 Join us for the CHSTM PG Seminar Series! 🗓️ Swapnil Chaudhary (IISER Mohali) — “Hindu Ayurveda, Medical Communalism and Body: Ayurvedic Revival Movement in United Provinces (1900-1925)” 🕐Tue 24 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email [email protected] for the link #HistMed