SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed 🏆£500 first prize Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025). For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇 #histmed

New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s. Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!): #histmed #histsex #AIDShistory

A final festive reminder about our conference before we sign off for the year. The programme is now available on our website and everyone is invited to sign up (free of charge) via the link below. ✨ Merry Christmas! ✨

Still time for mid-career SSHM members to sign up for the Wellcome funded Online Writing Retreat - deadline 17 December 📝💻

✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT This event is for SSHM members. To sign up and for more details see website Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) #histmed

🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟 Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970 with Prof Catharine Coleborne Newcastle (or Sydney-based) Domestic students only Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗ More information ⬇️ www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear... #histSTM #histmed

WG5 Seminar Series: Worldmaking through Health: Notes on Yugoslav Social Medicine and the Moral Imagination of Global Health speaker Jelena Kupsjak (University of Zadar, Croatia) 12 Dec 2025 12.30pm CET #Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159

Working Group 1 seminar 10 December 2025 1pm CET Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962 Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet) ONLINE - link via email / bulletin #Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History

✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT This event is for SSHM members. To sign up and for more details see website Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) #histmed

Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS annual conference. See our post for a breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern #publichealth across Italy, Mughal India, and England. premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568 #histmed

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide. We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians

Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks

Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026! Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) & Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick) For more details 👇

Call for Statements of Interest - open now! In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist

New Wellcome report examines how archives, manuscripts and material culture are currently used in life, health and wellbeing research, identifying 15 recommendations to enhance methodological innovation and cross-disciplinary experimentation. #histmed #medhumanities

#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory

Im looking for other scholars in #DisHist #HistMed or #VastEarlyAmerica for a SHEAR 2026 panel. Tim Holliday and I are hoping to put a panel together on how patient knowledge shaped medicine in the early republic 1/3

Together with the RCN History of Nursing Forum and HIVstory, we're remembering the experiences of nursing workers during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Discover their stories and learn more about the project at our event on 27 November. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI 📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.

Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals . www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social

Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided... I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority. @ihr.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist

Physician's gallery @rcpedin.bsky.social new permanent gallery and learning centre that explores relationship with health, medicine and our bodies. Over 50 objects, manuscripts and books on display, sharing stories from medieval medicine to modern day treatments. Free and open to all #histmed

Sharing forthcoming @roysocmed.bsky.social events (in person and online). Just search 'medicine' on the events page to find out more about these events in January and February and others www.rsm.ac.uk/events/ Please note fees may apply. #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

We want to hear your memories of birth. As part of projects by @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!

📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970” 🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email [email protected] for the link #HistMed

#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.

A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist

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

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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

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