Following the announcement at #SSHM2026 🎉 A few words from the winner of the Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 for ‘Safe, Sane and Consensual’: The Distinct Moralisation and Community Response of San Francisco’s Gay Male Leather Subculture in the Early AIDS Crisis (1981-1990)' Congratulations #histmed

📣New CFPs added for #histmed events in September📣 Call for proposals deadline July 2026 Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Virtual Student Conference The Difficulty of Empathy: Rethinking the Literary Arts and Healthcare Online Symposium

Thank you to @sshmedicine.bsky.social for having me at the amazing #SSHM2026 conference. I thoroughly enjoyed the fascinating panels and loved sharing my work on anorexia nervosa with fellow attendees, as well as being part of a fantastic panel with my colleague @helenaaeberli.bsky.social.

For South Asian Heritage Month, join us online for an inspiring session all about Dr Jamini Sen, a true Indian trailblazer and an integral part of our College’s history! 📆23 July 2026 🕐18:30 (BST) 📍Online 💷£5 🎫https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-jamini-sen-an-indian-trailblazer-tickets-1992752231568

#jobfairy - there's something in the water in the USA. Four #histSTM posts - two hist med (one pre-modern) and two generalist HSTM (one senior). Some won't sponsor visas but if the US is safe for you to work in there are more options this year than for a while :/ 🗃️

Attended my third and final conference of the month! Thank you to the University of Leeds and @sshmedicine.bsky.social for a lovely few days! #SSHM2026

Many thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social and to all the #sshm2026 organisers for a thoughtful, generous, and stimulating meeting. I am grateful for the opportunity to present my work on Giovanni Manardo, to hear excellent papers, and to take part in such rich discussions. #histmed #medievalsky

Good 2 meet @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social Prof Oonagh Walsh Dr Lynsey Cullen & many fab scholars - a very enriching few days! Great program, gorgeous campus, sunshine - thanks to organisers 4 all their hard work making a super event @sshmedicine.bsky.social @katrawling.bsky.social

#SSHM2026 has been fab as always. So lovely to see old friends and meet new ones! And great to be on such a lively panel discussing Therapeutic Environments this morning with Sasha Mullaly & Kay Simpson. Huge thanks to @katrawling.bsky.social and rest of Leeds team. Hope you are all now relaxing! 🍹

I had the best time on the heterodox healing panel at #SSHM2026 with the wonderful and sharp @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social and kitt price (adjectives apply to both)!

Amidst the excellent #histmed panels at #SSHM2026, I was excited to organise a #maritimehistory panel on naval healthcare and welfare featuring new research from myself, @eliskabujokova.bsky.social and @catsbeck.bsky.social, chaired by Erica Charters. Another great @sshmedicine.bsky.social event!

Hello and goodbye #SSHM2026 from spiritual healing! We were (1) US spiritualists and antenatal thought (@nienkegroskamp.bsky.social), (2) René Allendy's esoteric medicine (kitt price) and (3) Belgian lay exorcists (you guessed it)

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#CfA: New fellowships in Dept. "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" for researchers working on 📊 politics and practices of #Data, 📚️ histories of #Knowledge and collective life in Africa, or 🍂 #Environmental knowledge in times of crisis 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #HistSci

As #SSHM2026 closes an opportunity to say thank you the amazing team at University of Leeds for such a great conference 👏 (Kat, Alexia, Shane, Will, Alex, Robert, Joanna, Alexandra, Megan) and to all the team in conference and events. Safe travels everyone! Looking forward to #SSHM2028 #histmed

A fab couple of days @sshmedicine.bsky.social. First a brillaint roundtable with @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @janetweston.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @ruthhalkon.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social and Louise Jackson on Putting Police back into Histories of Health.

Love this post from a longtime member of @sshmedicine.bsky.social. I might be biased as chair, but I have been a part of SSHM since the late 90s. Scholarly societies like SSHM are important spaces for community building and support, perhaps even more so when HE and humanities seem to be collapsing.

Good Morning on this final day of #SSHM2026 with panels on maritime healthcare; war & health; spiritual healing; decision making; therapeutic environments; pharmaceuticals; 19th C Britain; reproduction; sexual health; medical education; and care journeys! Conference closes after lunch. #histmed

Had such a fantastic time today presenting very new research on medical mothers 😶 thank you to the audience and my co-panellists for a truly great time!

A history of medicine themed pub quiz at #SSHM2026 ‘The 5 Humours’ just claiming first spot ahead of a strong group of teams. A shout out to quiz master extraordinaire Kat Rawlings and her awesome sparkly trousers and @meggraham9.bsky.social for running such a fun event!! #histmed

Managed to have a look at the Leeds Uni sustainable garden today which is a fab idea. And obviously saw quite a lot of 🐇 #SSHM2026

That was an excellent #SSHM26! Had the best time seeing old friends (many in person for the first time!) making new friends and learning so much in all the panels! Million thanks to the organizing team at Leeds and @sshmedicine.bsky.social and to the true heroes of the conference: the campus bunnies

Congratulations to Evie, Monica and Alexandra. The essays submitted this year made for excellent reading, and the prize and commendations are much deserved.

👏 Another amazing #SSHM2026 keynote! Professor Stefanie Ganger, Universitat Heidelberg ‘Never yet recovered any tolerable degree of health’. Histories of Fevers and Lingering Illness 1750-1830’ Chaired by Prof. Jonathan Reinarz of @eahmh.bsky.social @feverprojecthd.bsky.social #histmed

Very happy and honoured to have received a High Commendation in this year's Roy Porter Prize! thank you to the jury and to the @sshmedicine.bsky.social for their consideration and recognition ✨

This week at #SSHM2026 the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 winners were revealed 🎉 RP chair, Yuliya Hilevych awarding First Prize to Evie Hinchliffe and Highly Commended to @monicamoradov.bsky.social and @Alexandrea McHugh More details to follow!

A busy day 3 #SSHM2026 panels on experiences and outcomes; care in/out of institutions, infant feeding; chronic conditions; psychiatry; health & the city; bodies; and hospitals and patients. Plus the @eahmh.bsky.social keynote, Professor Stefanie Ganger (11-12:30) and the Society's AGM #histmed

Had a lovely, albeit very brief, time at #SSHM2026 this afternoon! It was great to be able to talk about the work we’ve been doing with @ukdishisthub.bsky.social with @sambrady.bsky.social, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social and Rosemary Cresswell! #DisHist

Attendees at #SSHM2026 might also be interested in our #CFP for an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social in November! You have until the end of the month to submit your ideas to us! #DisHist

Chaired a great panel at #SSHM2026 on Global Health and Documentation. @alexandra-ward.bsky.social and silences in ship voyage health reports @jdnott.bsky.social explored the East African Medical Survey And Yue Cui - documented but untreated medical exclusion in colonial Manchuria #histmed

We were really pleased to get to lead this session at #SSHM2026 this afternoon! Our audience was very engaged and we had some very insightful conversations! Big thanks to Rosie Cresswell and @sshmedicine.bsky.social for all of the support we have received over the past few years and today!

Ready for @sshmedicine.bsky.social on Friday where I'm on the panel 'Regulating Reproduction: Colonial Legacies and Social Interventions,1960s–1980s' organised by @cbjerre.bsky.social, chaired by @claireljones.bsky.social and featuring papers from Karissa Robyn Patton & Turið Nolsøe & Cecilie Bjerre

Looking forward to presenting at #SSHM2026 this afternoon!

We’re on the road for conference season 📚 We kicked things off yesterday at the Society for the Social History of Medicine, with more events to come across the UK and Europe. If you’re attending, come and chat to the team, we’d love to say hi! #SSHM2026 #SHS2026 #IMC2026 #NCS2026

Great mentoring session with the SSHM EC team at #SSHM2026 postgraduate and EC workshop.Thank you to Yuliya Hilevych @beapichel.bsky.social @ecrichardson.bsky.social @hpsvanessa.bsky.social Organised by @meggraham9.bsky.social & @alexandra-ward.bsky.social (Leeds organising team) #histmed

Coming August 2027, the Military Welfare History Network's first edited volume. Courtesy of @paulhuddie.bsky.social @amyjay401.bsky.social @emmahuddlestone.bsky.social Order it now and use this promo code for 20% off. link.springer.com/book/9783032... #milwelfhist #military #welfare #veteran

The brilliant @caitjan.bsky.social and Helen Stratford in action, talking about (and drawing out) the history productivity and disability #SSHM2026 @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Day 2 #SSHM2026 with so many interesting panels today covering pre-modern and voluntary healthcare; gender, sex, race; the body; global health; disability rights; reproductive health & biomedicine and that’s all before lunch!! #histmed

I love the Leeds wildlife. Day 2 of @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference. Lots of #EarlyModern content today including the latest project by @rouge1767.bsky.social and me.

A great first day at #SSHM2026 with amazing keynote from Keith A. Wailoo Followed by, not one but two Roy Porter winner plenaries! John Matchim (winner 2024) & Charlotte Stobart (winner 2025) Thank you to our amazing hosts, Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social & Kat Rawlings #histmed

The second Roy Porter Prize Essay talk is by Charlotte Stobart, on experiences of disability after polio in 1960s and 1970s Britain. #sshm2026

The first of two Roy Porter Essay Prize winners: John Matchim on goats, milk, nutrition reform and missionaries in 1920s Labrador. #sshm2026

The keynote speaker is Keith Wailoo, on “Junkie” Wellbeing. #sshm2026

Laura King welcoming us warmly on behalf of the University of Leeds and the School of History, and Lisa Smith on behalf of the SSHM, also introducing the keynote speaker. #sshm2026

Excited crowd ready for the organisers’ welcome and the opening keynote at #SSHM2026 I like the wood-panelled lecture theatre. 1950s (I think)

🎉👏. #SSHM2026

📅Our PhDs are presenting at #SSHM2026 : Krittapak Ngamvaseenont, “The Creation of a Mental Health Model for Developing Countries: Thailand and International Mental Health in the Cold War” Megan Bridgeland, “Teaching, Tinkering and Toys: Crafting a New Culture of Neurosurgical Education, c.1930–60”

Opening day of SSHM’s biennial conference at University of Leeds. Registration desk opens at 12.30pm - located in Parkinson Court near the main campus entrance #SSHM2026 #histmed

On train to @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference in Leeds. Looking forward to talks by our keynote speaker Keith Wailoo and our previous Roy Porter prize winners this afternoon! Say hello if you're around. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/even...

Getting ready for #SSHM2026 30 June -3 July at University of Leeds? Some useful information for participants (🧵1/ 5) There are spaces for work and rest and also a number of green spaces on campus 👇