Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!

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

What can periodicals tell us about the experience of time in Victorian asylums? I reflect on that in my article 'Passing the Hours' in the new VPR. #histmed #MedHums #histpsych #Victorian #madstudies

💫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🗃️

Now on the BARS Blog: CfP: 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' - Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 2026 Conference See all the details here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6071 Please share widely!!

Excited that my short story, 'The Holiday', will be published in New Writing Scotland. I'm grateful to the editors for offering it a home. And now I'm off to the same shores where I started writing it...

Prize: The Hamilton Prize (Deadline: 7/1/25) bit.ly/43VtyWL

Reminder that this event is on Friday! Join us as we talk anonymity, ethics, and medical photography. For my part, I'll be exploring material and aesthetic anonymities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A few free tickets left for the 'Aesthetics of the Clinic' symposium in Cambridge next week! Proud to be part of such a great programme. I'll be talking about patients' 'rewriting' of mental institutions in asylum periodicals.

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration. To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇

If you think your medical history monograph is worth a prize, why not enter it for the EAHMH book prize this year? Details in this link: eahmh.org/prizes/

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Something to look forward to in the post-holiday lull of early January

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." — Paul Klee On Modern Art. Trans. by Paul Findlay (Faber & Faber, 1966). Intersecting Minds “Sensing the Unseen” neurohumanism.com/call-for-sub... #CallforSubmissions #ArtAndPerception #IntersectingMinds #ArtNeureau #NeuroHumanities

After some hesitation if I wanted yet another social media account, here I am, keen to bring back the old Twitter days. Excited about any news about the Medical Humanities, the history of medicine, book history and 19th-century studies (plus literature and art more generally).