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

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

📣 Online talk – ⚖️ Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM), ‘Immoral, unjust, and simply ruining the nation: Public Health Law and Public Fury in Post-war Britain’ 📆 13:00 GMT Wednesday 9 April ✉️ Email [email protected] for Teams link (see poster below for Teams meeting ID and password)

Earlier we were treated to a fantastic @healthhumslboro.bsky.social talk by @saralread.bsky.social where she discussed her novels ‘The Gossips’ Choice' (2020) & 'The Midwife’s Truth' (2023), and how case notes and midwifery practices in historical medical treatises are transformed into fiction.

Some of our @healthhumslboro.bsky.social researchers @jadefrench.bsky.social, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, Joan Fitzpatrick, and our Dean @justin-waring.bsky.social are exhibiting their research at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase this June: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

Ooohhh. Discount code on this amazing forthcoming #medhums book. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere. Discount code in replies 👇🏾

Our Health Humanities colleagues shared some of their research with the VC today, including transcribing Victorian medical archives, cycles of care from the Victorian asylum to post-war care homes, 17C midwifery practices, and early modern plague treatments (a sponge with vinegar on the nose!)

Day 7 of Chest Infection from HELL. I'm willing to try anything. Trade card (late 1870s) advertising Parker's Tonic - which was supposed to cure "dyspepsia, neuralgia, sour stomach, wakefulness, rising of the food, yellow skin... blood foul with humours..." - all of which I believe I have 😂🤧

Always good to have the laudanum on standby.

Really looking forward to this! I'll be speaking online on 10 April about abortion, unborn lambs, fur coats, and celebrity feuds in Barbara Comyns's novel The Skin Chairs - one of my favourite books of all time. Tickets are free and available via link below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...

Our first post on Bluesky! We are an open-access onl'ne journal based at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, publishing work on medical and health humanities We're interested in anything that connects medicine with the humanities—critical reading, looking, listening.

Event alert! Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between Symposium, 7 May 2025, 1-5pm BST, feat. @amigonidavid.bsky.social @helenkingstone.bsky.social Fatima Borrman and Helen Small, organised by me and @jadefrench.bsky.social hybrid and FREE, register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Our next event is a hybrid presentation from Alice Staveley (Stanford),'Taking Woolf’s Measure: Experiments in Data Visualizing Virginia Woolf’s Archives' on Wed 26 Feb, 16.00-17.15 GMT. Give @drsarahparker.bsky.social a shout if you'd like the Teams link!

Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

In the seventh post of the Birth Trauma takeover, Julia Drewnowicz continues to elucidate a central theme in this series: the failure to name obstetric violence. thepolyphony.org/2025/02/18/v...

Have just finished reading Rosemary Archer’s amazing article on Margaret Harkness and emotional labour for the latest issue of RRR journal - more fantastic PGR work coming from Loughborough English! @sadiseshiah.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social