Big congratulations to @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Dr Hannah Palmer, who passed her Viva yesterday. Hannah's thesis is entitled 'Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature'. An extra extraordinary piece of work. 👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓🎓🎓🎓

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...

Today we are celebrating all things Emily Brontë 🤎 And we are delighted to reveal the cover for the expanded and updated edition of Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, publishing in 2026! Discover more here: saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #emilybronte 📚💙

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking all things Brontë with the marvellous @drclaireocall.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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. ✨

The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...

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 !! 🫀💫

So so proud of my lovely friend and colleague, the new Dr Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social !!! 💕 Jo's thesis on Marie Corelli is truly spectacular, not to mention groundbreaking. Beautifully written & expertly designed - thank you for letting me read it! X

This week I submitted my PhD thesis! ✨I have loved this project and feel so lucky to have spent the last 3 years researching & writing. I have found new narratives about the realities of women’s reproductive health inside and outside of medicine, and uncovered histories of real lived experiences 🩺📚✍🏼

Coming very, very soon… Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

🔈📚🕰️🩺 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👇

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 👇

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

This is a great post and a wonderful project, which features a little pub history - I'm fascinated by pubs responding to tourist opportunities in this period - and even a temperance hall. Loughborough was a decent temperance town, and you'd need somewhere to go on holiday!

The exhibition is interactive and diverse, and such a wonderful representation of the kind of research going on in the Health Humanities at Loughborough. A big congratulations to all involved in this fantastic event. ✨ Also, a moment of appreciation for the mini plague doctor...

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 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!)

📣 *Women Writing Violence, from the 16th to the 21st century* – online workshops 📆 3–4 April & 10–11 April 2025 Join us for four online events spotlighting English-language women writers and their associations with violence. Sign up to each event here: womenwritingviolence.eventbrite.co.uk

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...

Hi friends, Loughborough's Health Humanities research group has finally made it over to bluesky ⛅🦋. Follow for updates from our wonderful researchers in the Health Hums. You can also use the link below find out more about who we are and what we do! www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng...