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On Wed 13 May 17:30-19:00 we are delighted to host @naomipullin.bsky.social, who will present her paper ‘The Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness: A social history of solitude in Britain in the long eighteenth century’ based on her current research Register below! 👇 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thank you Margot! This is a fine summary of our impactful Humanities research at the University of Hertfordshire.

You can now read mine and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social new article about the remedies 18thc women took six weeks before birth. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration. More info and book here: tinyurl.com/29nn4z33 @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

“The ‘quotidian’ care of infants and pregnant bodies can give us insight into unexpected history […] even if we prefer to leave the suckling and wailing of pregnancy and birth far from our founding documents.” nursingclio.org/2026/02/11/w...

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Now at #bsecs2025, I'm doing a panel on "Small bodies" with @dralun.bsky.social and @helenesfandiary.bsky.social I'm talking about "Small shoes: footwear, material culture and the Georgian body"

Thanks Lisa! A really productive session and fantastic questions all round!

Join me online at 10am GMT this Friday for my talk: 'Straightening Childhood: The Le Vacher Machine and Maternal Regulation of the Body in Georgian England.' I’ll be exploring how mothers read, managed & reshaped children’s bodies through the corrective device featured below, and others like it 👇

Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.

Thank you @timhitchcock.bsky.social Such a stimulating discussion and a really engaged audience - I’m glad the paper resonated!

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

I’ll be speaking about the very object featured below - the Le Vacher machine - and how mothers in Georgian England used devices like it to 'straighten' children’s bodies. #HistMed #MaterialCulture #MedicalHumanities #18thCentury

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

The Institute of Historical Research's 2026 June summer school in Bloomsbury is on Sickness and Health, from London's medieval history to the present. Suitable for the History-curious over the age of 16.

@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social strikes again with another rising star! Huge congrats to @berrypillot.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize for: 'No Place to be a Child? The Persistence and Peculiarities of Children’s Play during the Second World War in London and Liverpool.'🏆🙌🎉

New post today on #FindTheMidwife. Midwives under pressure with @sallypezaro.bsky.social and myself! What happened when midwives were pushed by town fathers to interrogate their clients? How did they balance their obligations? www.findthemidwife.com/midwives-und...

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/

There’s still time to sign up in person or online to hear Amy Wilson talk about pastoral dress & ideas about female fertility, pregnancy, and maternal identity in eighteenth century elite culture 👇

We look forward to hosting you Amy!

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

"How things seem is not how they are" -- more reasons to pursue the history of experience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see the video of David Turner's recent talk, 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century' @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... It was a great evening.

There’s still time to sign up online/in person for this important talk this weds @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social 👇

Hello! This is 'Material Identities, Social Bodies', a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project at the University of Birmingham. Led by @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and supported by @helenesfandiary.bsky.social, it explores embodiment & social identity in C18th British letters socialbodies.bham.ac.uk

A first post on a cheering topic. Coming up in February, at Birmingham, with thanks to Lucie Ryzova and Karen Harvey: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

Hear, hear!!!! The same very much applies to breastfeeding and bottle-feeding and historical constructions around these. I experienced the awful double-whammy of being subjected to the guilt and shame surrounding a c-section *plus* bottle feeding.

We're delighted to welcome @healthhistory.bsky.social, who's giving his paper 'Six Misconceptions about Modern Medicine that Historical Research Undermines', this Thursday, 28th Nov! Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-we-nee.... In person only.

Such a delight to present my research @long18thsem.bsky.social last night. It is such a supportive & challenging forum of senior scholars - presenting here never fails to help me improve the quality of my work. Thank you everyone who came, & to all those who asked questions #skystorians 🗃️

Our fortnightly seminar series continues next Wed 9/10 at 17:30 at the IHR Wolfson Room (as well as online via Zoom) as @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social of Edge Hill University will discuss the role of food in the formation of British identities. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/briti...

Join us next Wed 25/9 at 17:30 either at the IHR Wolfson Room or online via Zoom as @brycchancarey.bsky.social of Northumbria University will kick off our Autumn seminar program with a paper on eighteenth century clerical naturalism. #c18th #britishhistory www.history.ac.uk/events/ratio...

Apply by 6 Sept to become our new PG convenor! 👇

A fantastic opportunity to become part of our vibrant seminar culture. Deadline 6 Sept! Don’t delay!!!

Registration for #SSHM2024 is now OPEN📢 Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference 'Resistance' University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 16 - 19 July 2024 Organized by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d... #histmed

Delighted to discover I have been nominated for an award for my teaching on the history of medicine at King’s College London! #histmed

View our January - March 2024 programme here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri... #C18th #18thC

Writing the Self in Pain, 24-25 October, University of Helsinki. Call for papers! blogs.helsinki.fi/experiencing...

“his kindness to others and sense of humour were undimmed” www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Have you started a history PhD recently? Want to tell us about it in 5 mins or less? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th C Britain at our #LightningTalks event in March 2024 #c18th

Join us on Wed 6th at 17.30GMT for Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution with Pat Hudson In London or on Zoom all are welcome at supper afterwards. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri...

Pollard prize winning article given at the @long18thsem by @1812andallthat is now available👇 #18thc Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815*

Our last #18c seminar of 2023 happens soon, we hope you can join us for @cindyermus.bsky.social, "Crisis and Contagion: Researching Disease and Disaster in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" Tuesday, 5 December 2023 11:00-12:00 EST / 16:00-15:00 GMT Register for free ticket to the zoom today!

Reposting for the #c18th crowd

Please put your hands together for the famous British History in the Long C18th seminar, and their arrival on Bluesky!

📢The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2023 📢 Prof Alex Shepard, 'Who Cared? Looking after Children in C18th London'. 📅 Wed 6 December, 15.30-17.00 GMT 📍 University of Exeter or Zoom #EarlyModern #History 🗃️ Registration & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cared-...

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! We are thrilled to release our CFP for an ECR conference dedicated to 'Global Recipes in the Early Modern World' (with the generous support of the SSHM and BSHS)! If you are a PG/ECR working on any aspect of EM global recipe-making, don't forget to apply by 15 December!

If you're looking for #OpenAccess books that support career development in the #humanities, check out Becoming a Historian by Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock - available to download or read online for free here: uolpress.co.uk/book/becomin... #history #publishing #OAweek #OAweek23