European Association for the History of Medicine and Health

Promotional image for a Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum event. It includes text with the event title, date and location, and a grainy photograph from 1985 of a woman holding the hands of a patient. The photo is from the RCN's collection of historic nursing journals.

Together with the RCN History of Nursing Forum and HIVstory, we're remembering the experiences of nursing workers during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Discover their stories and learn more about the project at our event on 27 November.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI

📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.

Great and important piece on how we might think about global history by Máté Rigó and
José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“I Gave My Tooth to Science": The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program The Voice of Women’s baby teeth campaign used science to expose nuclear fallout, empower women, and influence Canadian peace movements.

This conversation was based on Cordeiro's NiCHE article, "'I Gave My Tooth to Science': The Voice of Women and the Baby Teeth Collection Program" - niche-canada.org/2020/02/20/i...

#envhist #histmed #wmnshist #nuclear #coldwar

PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026

My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!

A quote from Rachel McKendry, Executive Director of Discovery, Wellcome. Rachel says: "There's a huge potential for collaboration between genomics, the humanities, social sciences and wider society to drive innovation and discovery." Rachel is smiling warmly at the camera, wearing a blue blazer.

Our Genomics in Context Awards are open now. 🧬

We’re funding new collaborations across genomics, the humanities and social sciences and wider society.

Are you ready to apply?

Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives. This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...

Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
#histmed

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

@eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social @vahs.bsky.social

The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo!

histmed.org/buffalo-2026/

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social

Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist

Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/

Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.

Our first @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar of the year is 15 October at 17.30 UK time. Our speaker is @alephross.bsky.social .

To book:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Skystorians #history @hannahelias.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @graceheaton.bsky.social

🔜 Soutenance de thèse de doctorat en sciences, techniques et sociétés de Celia Mir Alvarez "Building public health inaction. The chase for air quality data in Morocco"
🗓️ 16 octobre 2025
➡️ bit.ly/3VRirJC

📚 Journées d’étude « La culture psychologique : actualités d’un concept »
Comment les savoirs psy façonnent-ils nos sociétés ?
📅 18–19 nov. 2025 – Campus Condorcet
➡️ bit.ly/4mSUih0

Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss...

#histmed #histSTM

History Day History Day and the History Day: Discover Collections website bring together researchers and collections in-person and online

It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Conference Funding The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
sshm.org/conference-f...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

niche-canada.org/2025/09/27/a...

#envhist

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Alive and Kicking: Solcha's 12th Symposium — ICEHO The 12th symposium of SOLCHA in Rio de Janeiro, 2025, was a huge success boding well for the future of environmental history in Latin America.

Latin America's regional environmental history conference, SOLCHA, took place in July this year in lovely Rio de Janeiro. Read the report by ICEHO President Claudia Leal on our website! And take note: in 2027, SOLCHA will take place in Mendoza, Argentina.

#envhist #historiaambiental

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a...

#envhist #archives

Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and t…

A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week: envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e... #envhist #envhum