The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

And if that's not enough for you, then later the same day, 2) 'Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health' roundtable on 2 new books: Tillmann Taape's 'Crafting Medicine' & Jack Hartnell's 'Wound Man' (free, online CHSTM #histmed working group, also meeting 10 Oct & 14 Nov): www.chstm.org/group/object...

Forthcoming events on objects in the history of healthcare #HistMed: 1) 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900' @unibirmingham.bsky.social (5 Dec, free, online. CFP deadline 6 Oct. Organised by @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social): www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

WG1 Seminar resumes next Fri 26 Sep at 1pm CET with Prof Enrique Perdiguero who will speak on Fighting Cancer in Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A First Approach. #skystorians #medhums #histmed #eurohisthealth #CA22159

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Final Reminder 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟑𝟓𝟎-𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟎) Final day for in-person registration: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confe... #CSMBR #MedicalEducation #Europe

#CallForPapers #CFP The Fight against Tuberculosis. Policies, Exchanges, & Representations in Europe &its Colonies, 1850s-1970s Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025 Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth

Interested COST Action 22159 members may contact Action Chair Barry Doyle with regard to a panel submission for the European Association for Urban History - closing date 22 October 2025 - check your email for details #CA22159 #COSTAction #Skystorians #HistMed #HistArchitecture #HistHealth

Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites abstract submissions for an IMC Leeds 2026 panel, "Time to Heal: Temporalities in Care and Cure", to explore the myriad ways in which time and health intermingled. Due 20/9. #histmed #imcleeds #medmed @medica.bsky.social

Researchers interested in #MentalHealth #MentalHealthHist #HistPsychiatry #HistMed #MedHums #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth Special Interest Group in Mental Health are hosting an ONLINE meetup for scholars - check bulletin for details. The focus of this session is #Ethics #Skystorians #COSTAction

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.

💫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🗃️

The #COSTAction #CA22159 Starter Pack for Members #skystorians interested in #MedicalHumanities #HealthHist #HealthHistory #MedHum #HSTM #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery. If you are a member and wish to be added, just email us! go.bsky.app/9EBAQz7

One for #histnursing ?

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

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

Free online event - Mark Celinscak on personal accounts - esp St. John Ambulance & @britishredcross.bsky.social - of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in summer 1945. #HistNursing #HistMed #WW2 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-care-...

Deadline TOMORROW! Your scholarship about health & the urban environment has never been more pressing—workshop your ideas and get them ready for publication! 🗃️ 📗 #histmed

The wonderful @historyelaine.bsky.social on paper technologies, advertisements and bringing together media studies and history of early modern medicine through an impressive archive project in her keynote lecture #eahmh25 #histmed

Are you at #EAHMH25 this week? 💊 Get 30% off our essential #histmed titles during the conference. Browse the reading list here ⬇️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...

📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇 #histmed

👋Hello EAHMH - @eahmh.bsky.social Welcome to #histmed community on Bluesky Wishing you a great conference #eahmh25

Hello world! EAHMH is now officially on Bluesky. Follow us to receive updates about all things #histmed (but also #histsci, #STS) etc. For those of you joining us in Berlin for our biannual conference, please help us spread the word by using #eahmh25!

📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series? The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳 Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇

Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...

Heading to #EAHMH25 this week? 💊 Get 30% off our essential #histmed titles during the conference. Browse the reading list here ⬇️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...

The Santorio Residential Fellowship supports mid-career and senior scholars, working on any aspect of the #histSTM across the Mediterranean, with a fully funded one-month residency in Koper-Capodistria to conduct archival research or organise a scientific event. #histmed

Programme for @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social Medical Education in Europe conference has been released 21-22 October 2025 (Hybrid) Registration open to attend in person at Domus Comeliana or online #histmed

📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed

🥳 The latest book in SSHM’s Social Histories of Medicine series Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social #histmed

'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

📖 Zines! The self-made chronicles of sub-cultures, niche interests, and political activism are having a moment (if they ever stopped). Learn about their history and make your own at 'The superpower of zines', 12 Sept at Leaf, Bold St #BSF25 britishsciencefestival.org/event/the-su...

If you appreciate scrapbooking, we welcome you to attend our Library & Archives’ next ‘In Focus’ event: ‘Scrapbooks: A Simple Pleasure’ 📒 Join us as we turn the pages of some vintage books to explore the delights within. 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 19 August Find out more: bit.ly/in-focus-scrapbooks

Interesting new book by old friend and #histmed colleague Christoph Gradmann: Another Magic Mountain: Kibong’oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000 (Ohio University Press, 2025). doi.org/10.2307/jj.2... www.ohioswallow.com/978082142633...

SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence @britishacademy.bsky.social seeks engagement with individuals & organisations with expertise on the core public policy areas of focus identified in Covid Decade as being key for successful social and economic recovery: one being Health and wellbeing More info 👇

Are you an early-career humanities and social sciences researcher seeking a permanent academic role? Our Postdoctoral Fellowships can support you in strengthening your research profile and gaining teaching experience in a university setting. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)! #histmed #histstm #sts

✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨ #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Fantastic position for any #histmed people!

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

A new edition to SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine Series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Also available #OpenAccess @sarahcrook.bsky.social Unhappy Mothers: women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain #histmed #medhumanities

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Catch up on the latest #histmed conference reports written by SSHM members on our Blog page. SSHM as a charity supports global conferences through its funding. The next deadline for conference funding applications is 1 October sshm.org/conference-f...

#HIstMed #HistNursing

#HistNursing #HistMed Free! Definitely worth a visit, plus they have a museum 💙

At the beginning of this week we hosted the 19th Annual MEMSA Conference. We would like to thank our supporters: @sshmedicine.bsky.social, Durham's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, @durhamhistory.bsky.social, Durham Castle and of course @imems.bsky.social

Don't forget to get your entries in for the Janette Harley prize!

Online talk by Vivek Neelakantan at Institute for Chinese Studies, Delhi “The Monsoon Asia of Geographers”: The Cold War Beginnings of the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO), 1948-60 📅Weds 23 July 💻Online via Zoom 🕰️3pm IST (10.30am UK time, 11.30 am CET)

Hey... our July titles in Modern History are all #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 Available from 29 July, these books are new in our @sshmedicine.bsky.social & Cultural History of Modern War series. Feat. @sarahcrook.bsky.social, Joel Morley & more. Ground-breaking research, completely free.

Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays: Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge) #histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (1/2)