Co-convenor Michael Robinson has just kicked off our @milwelfhist.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social symposium at Birmingham on war, trauma and emotional injury. Some excellent papers and discussion to come this afternoon and into tomorrow #milwelfhist

Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award. @wellcometrust.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism. #histmed

Looking to spice up your #histmed classes? Consider two new books coming out just in time for Fall 2025! Full of pithy and provocative essays, Do Less Harm (ed. me & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social) and The Nursing Clio Reader (@nursingclio.bsky.social) offer new perspectives to meet the moment. 1/2

CFPs History of Health in the Maghreb The organizers invite submissions for a workshop on the history of public health in the Maghreb region, to be hosted by the University of Maryland. #histmed #medhumanities

The Royal Society of Medicine (London, UK) is hosting the Sarah Hughes Memorial Lecture: The power of 8: Understanding our senses for safety, regulation, and learning 📅Fri 5 Dec 2025 🕰️6:00pm – 8:00pm GMT Location: Royal Society of Medicine and online (charge applies) www.rsm.ac.uk/events/histo...

Our updated website is now live! Here you can find information on our events, research streams, and opportunities for researchers 🔗 www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...

Forthcoming with the CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #CSMBR #medicalhistory #pharmacology #al-Majūsī #Arabic #Latin #CostantinetheAphrican

IT IS OUT! 🚀 The full programme + abstracts are now online! Explore how knowledge was imagined, represented & re-created — from ancient anatomy to 3D digital reconstructions. Free online slots for CSMBR Members: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confe... #CSMBR #ATLOMY #HistoryOfScience

Join HealthAI2026 – 🔗 healthai.pagesconferences.org 📧 [email protected] @ems.boston.gov @cmadocs.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @pmbern.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org @sshmedicine.bsky.social @publichealth.boston.gov @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

📢 final update from us 📢 1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later! If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind. Our email is: [email protected]

20 years! Happy anniversary to the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Join them on Weds 29 October for two public lectures #histmed

On LinkedIn as well as Bluesky? Why not follow SSHM's new LinkedIn page too! #histmed #histSTM

#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November #HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs

WG2 Autumn series starts with A comparative perspective on European Cross-associations as regional healthcare providers in the long 1950s” by Gijs Hoekstra, Ilmari Railo & Yuliya Hilevych (University of Groningen) Tues 21 Oct 2025 at 12pm CET - zoom link in bulletin #CA22159 #Skystorians #HistMed

Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

@eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social @vahs.bsky.social

Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the #histSTM Their 9th Essay Award is open to researchers from STM fields who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years. A chance to win £500 and publication in the journal Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 #histmed

👋 We're bringing back #FollowFriday! 😀 Want to learn more about LSHTM's work in #PublicHealth? Follow our centres & projects for the inside track on the latest research, events, and publications: 👉 go.bsky.app/4FczAGW

Alongside Simon, Dr Bill Bynum of the Wellcome Institute will detail his collaborative work with Roy and cast light on Roy’s major contributions to medical history research and teaching.

Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association, join Professor Sir Simon Schama (m. 1963) as he reflects on his undergraduate and early academic training alongside Roy Porter at Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Upcoming Public Webinar: “Roy Porter Remembered” Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association 6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk

The #SSHM conference is back! Hands-down one of my favourite conferences. It's big but super friendly and always packed with great papers. And a great opportunity to learn more about what the SSHM does, including the book series and journal! And did I mention it's friendly? people are really nice!

📣New Issue Alert📣 Volume 38 Issue 3 of Social History of Medicine is now available online! with 12 original research articles (7 of which are #OpenAccess) plus #histmed book reviews

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist

Amazing theme! (Even if I have spent part of the last half-hour involuntarily singing the Hokey Cokey to myself.)

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

Exciting News! The project's very own @d-oneill.bsky.social will be talking about tobacco sponsorship in F1 and its associated public health challenges at the Silverstone Museum next weekend. Do consider attending if interested. Info is in the linked post.

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors. Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library #histmed

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST? Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' Free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss... #histmed #histSTM

Check out the calls for papers on our website with abstract deadlines throughout the month. sshm.org/portfolio/up...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline! Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.

Call for papers for the Womens HistoryNetwork Seminar Series. Deadline is the 10th November, email submissions to [email protected]

The deadline is today! Get those applications in asap #histmed

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October. sshm.org/conference-f...

Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

#histmed @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Another important lecture in this series: @fancynahyan.bsky.social talking on "In Ibn al-Nafis' Shadow Transformations in Medical Theory in Islamic Societies (1200-1520)," Oct. 7: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... #histmed #MedievalMedicine #MedievalSky

Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...

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...