European Association for the History of Medicine and Health

📚 BSHS Singer Prize

The BSHS invites submissions from early careers for the Singer Prize, awarded for an outstanding essay based on original research in the history of science, technology, or medicine.

Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/grants/#sing...

IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary The Ian Roy Mid-Career IHR Library Bursary is offered with the generous support of the estate of Ian Roy.

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

2 year fellowship available in AMR research www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/antim...

New collection on Layers of London created using fieldwork, photography, stamp-based prints, and digital mapping to records overlooked historical artefacts in contemporary London. #digitalhumanities

Does anyone know of any work on the ‘Daily Express Nursing Corps’, formed in August 1914? I’m researching someone who apparently paid for the training, exams, & uniform but then was unable to secure relevant employment. #WW1 #NursingHistory #histmed #medicalhistory

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Welcome to the community!

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

This looks like a brilliant role with the #MedHums team at Durham (2 year postdoc, 28 hours/week) ‘Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry’: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ154/p...

Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy - Committees - UK Parliament Members of the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees have decided to undertake an inquiry that will consider how the Government can ensure it will deliver a successful Child Poverty Strate...

Great opportunity here for historians of voluntary action and child poverty to have their say, as the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees reviews the government's plans, record and level of ambition on ending child poverty
committees.parliament.uk/work/9581/re...

New page! Our "Environmental History Around the World" section is expanding, and we have now added a page with podcasts, interviews, lectures, and talks. This is just the beginning; Help us expand it by suggesting other series on environmental history! www.iceho.org/talk-series
#EnvHist

IHR Bulletin February 2026 Being Human Festival 2026 Applications for Being Human Festival 2026 are now open, taking place from 5 - 14 November 2026, with the theme Crossroads.  Funding grants are available to connect your research...

In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
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Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History

What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback?

February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST)

Zoom details:
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Password: 534412

Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

For #HandwritingDay, step into an 1813 classroom. This book belonged to a student who attended Dr Haighton’s midwifery lectures at Guy’s. The writing is in a flowing cursive. Look for the flourish on the letter D. It’s interleaved: a printed syllabus bound together with blank pages for notes.

#Spain is where all the action is in 2026!! Following our Madrid event, our University of Granada hosts welcome #ReproHist scholars to #HistMed #MedHums workshop. Zoom link will issue to registered attendees only. #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Skystorians #GenderHist #WomensHistory #HistHealth

We have been watching #Amadeus and the opening titles piqued our interest. The animations show the making of catgut, a material used for both musical instruments and for surgical suturing. We've paired some stills with images from our collection to show how catgut was made 🧵🪡

CW: Gore, needles

There's still time to get your materials in for some AAHM prizes! If you're an early career scholar, consider applying for the Pressman-Burroughs Early Career Development award by Jan 31: histmed.org/pressman-bur... #histmed

William Osler Medal William Osler Medal About the William Osler Medal   Osler Medal Essay Contest, 2026   The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best-unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written b...

There's also still time to apply for the Osler Medal, which is awarded for the best essay in the history of medicine written by a medical student: histmed.org/william-osle... #histmed

Shryock Medal Shryock Medal Graduate students are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of med...

The Shryock Medal, given for the best unpublished paper written by a graduate student, is also still accepting nominations: histmed.org/shryock-medal/ #histmed

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Senior Research Officer at University of Essex An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

One PhD and one postdoc position available in the interesting ERC research project on Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change (2024-2029) run by dr Birgit Nemec:
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Visit @nichecanada.bsky.social for this new article co-authored by Dr. Heather Green of @historysmu.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin BA’25, #SMUSociology graduate and Dr. Green's research assistant on the Mining Danger Project. #SMUHistory #envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist #research #artswithimpact

Deadline to submit your proposals is 11 January!
#SSHM2026 Histories of health and medicine will explore what ‘in’ & ‘out’ can reveal about the impact of different gateways, routes, breaks, and barriers on people’s experiences of health, disability, illness, and healthcare in the past.
#histmed

#HistSTM jobs!

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IHR London Summer School 2026: Sickness and Health From the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, from medieval medicine to public health across the centuries, from hospitals to archives & collections. Join us to discover Londo...

The #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

What if genomics, other disciplines and wider society came together to shape research?

This is the goal of our Genomics in Context Awards.

Find out more ⤵️
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Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.

Call for Submissions - Botanical Imaginations

In this special series, @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social seeks to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations. How do communities around the world relate with plants?

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#envhist #envhum #plants #botany

Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 19.1 (2026), a special issue on 'Global Fat Resources' edited by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann and Ines Prodöhl; #openaccess thanks to the KOALA Consortium and all our subscribers! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist #fat