📘 A major open-access book on the role of science during the Covid-19 pandemic has been published, co-authored by Prof Alex Broadbent from @durham.ac.uk Department of Philosophy & IMH. Find out more & read it online: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... #TransformativeHumanities #MedicalHumanities

📢Find out about the history of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh at next Tuesday's lunchtime talk at 1.15 pm @surgeonshall.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time...

A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) 📆29-30 Oct 2026 University of Stirling Applications by 15 April

I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀

Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...

DREAM job: two-years of full-time research on Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and its various histories www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQI985/r...

Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration. tinyurl.com/229on2w7 @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social

Can you 'hear' disease? What does it feel like to 'smell' sickness? We're excited to be hosting a one-day in-person workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities. 📅 Tue 24 Feb, 11am–4pm Book your free spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

📅 On Monday 9 February 5–6pm we are delighted to be hearing from @drhick.bsky.social about 'Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria'. This is a free, online event. More info and book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersecti...

don't forget to send in your abstracts for this VPFA study day. Women's bodily experiences are so often overlooked in fiction, so this study day is so important for bringing those to light.

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

Very much looking forward to sharing my work on pregnancy and motherhood following gynaecological surgery in the mid-19th century as part of this fantastic programme! It is online and free - links in posts below about how to register. Thank you for including me @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social !! 🫀💫

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Get your skates on! 🛼 Applications for our Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship Scheme close on 30 January 2026, 12:00 PM GMT. ▶️ To find out more about the scheme, you can watch recordings of our latest webinars on our website: medhumsplatform.org/practice-res...

I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs. Please share!

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/

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇

Welcome to @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social, who joins us as a Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab 🥳 We're looking forward to working with you! medhumsplatform.org/welcome-to-t...

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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.

📢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

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed 📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm 🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites abstract submissions for an IMC Leeds 2026 panel, "Time to Heal: Temporalities in Care and Cure", to explore the myriad ways in which time and health intermingled. Due 20/9. #histmed #imcleeds #medmed @medica.bsky.social

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

Love this idea! @lboroenglish.bsky.social students, did you know Ladybird books were originally printed and published in Loughborough? 🐞

Two of our academics - @wvmierlo.bsky.social and Dr Barbara Cooke - will be speaking at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) Modernist Editing Symposium on 23 September. More details here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date 5 pm on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p...

📢 Apply for a 3-year BA Postdoctoral Fellowship with us. Open to those within 3 years of PhD and without a permanent post. Identify a mentor - www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng... - to support an app (a short EOI form & 2-page CV). Internal deadline 11 August 2025. More info here: lnkd.in/eM7jNaTg

Our wonderful researchers are exhibiting 'Materials of pandemic care across time' today and tomorrow at the British Academy Summer Showcase. Tickets are free and available through the link below 👇

Our @healthhumslboro.bsky.social colleagues and @justin-waring.bsky.social have curated a fantastic exhibition - Materials of pandemic care of across time - for @britishacademy.bsky.social’s Summer Showcase. It’s open to the public tomorrow: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe....

CALL FOR PAPERS: Reproductive healthcare providers across Europe (19th - 20th centuries) Workshop SUBMIT: 30 June 2025 Details 👉 lnkd.in/eW9Tqpwc #Skystorians #ReproHist #HealthHist #HistMed #HistMidwifery #CA22159 #COSTAction #CFP #ECR #Health #EuroHistHealth

We had a lovely afternoon hearing about health humanities, creative practice, and mental health from @paulcrawford.bsky.social. Our members enjoyed a reading from Paul’s new book The Wonders of Doctor Bent and a thoughtful Q&A session. 📚✍🏼🌟

One of our fantastic colleagues @drclaireocall.bsky.social is giving a keynote on the Brontës, health, aging, and violence at 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities' workshop hosted by Uni of Reading Centre for Health Humanities. See below for details on how to attend in-person or online 👇🫀🩺

Looking forward to Siân Adiseshiah's keynote on Staging Utopian Subjects #ISTR2025 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/utopian-d...

Terrific keynote by Siân Adiseshiah @irishtheatreres.bsky.social 2025 #EndsofEmpire at @myiadt.bsky.social

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link