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/

@eurohealthhist.bsky.social #CA22159 National, International & Transnational Histories of Healthcare 1850-2000: Some early comparative healthcare analysis by John Dodd Notes on Irish Hospitals and Health care There are earlier editions covering French, Italian and Swedish Hospitals 1956-1957

Other papers today included Maria Aluas and Kevin Finnan compare early post war Romania and Ireland, Michele Mioni on Italian health insurance 1914-78 Mojca Ramsak on Slovenian Health insurance and Yusuf Celik and Ahmet Kucukkurt on Turkey’s slow journey to health insurance

In lovely Tartu for the WG4 conference 1945:Change or Continuity in European Healthcare? Opening Keynote by Action chair @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social introduced by Olaf Mertelsmann head of the University’s History Institute and Sean Lucey WG4 Co-lead.

The final paper on 4B is given by Kevin Finnan who is discussing the doctors that treated volunteers during the Irish revolution