(Call for applications) PhD Project "The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) the welfare state & embodied experience (1970s-2000s)" histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/le-n... #histSTM
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
We’re looking for scholars who can write CLIO ER articles for the following topics: mutual aid, comparisons between MN and previous moments, and reduced vaccine uptake. We will also accept any other pitches you have! Pitch submission instructions below nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...
An important advisory from AAUP. The advisory contains information for immediate support, tips for engaging with social media, and online digital tools. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
This ticks so many rightwing boxes: not only do we get to pathologize disability but we get to blame women for mismanaging their bodies during pregnancy.
100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/06/m...
You must visit Sconewitch!! It’s about a 15 min walk from LAC but one of my favourite places to eat.
One more week until we’re back at the cottage 🌅
I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.
Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors!
We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.
Please share widely!
"C'est une véritable vie de village" : de l'asile pour aliénés à l'hôpital psychiatrique, l'histoire tumultueuse de l'établissement Philippe-Pinel share.google/SFE6tAhFMG4t...
📢📢📢 We’re looking for scholars who could write pieces on the following topics: RFK and miasma, the potential legislation of asbestos, and the backlash against sunscreen. Preferably for Clio ER. #histmed Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
Many nursing students at Johns Hopkins cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic of 1980s and 90s. Poems, like this one from the Summer 1992 Nurses Alumnae Magazine, illuminate the emotional experience of caring for and befriending patients who are terminally ill.
National #Poetry Month
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
We're ridiculously excited to have acquired the archive of surgeon Helen McMillan, who became our third female Fellow in 1921. Her collection is a #WomenInSurgery treasure trove of photographs, letters, diaries & artwork. Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay!
📚📚📚 Do you like free books? We want to give them to you! Our team is currently looking for folks to write a review or an author interview for Abortion Stories and Abortion: History. You can DM this account or @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
I had a student who tried to shake my hand at the end of multiple tutorials the first year of my PhD. As a prof, only at the last class (and very rarely!).
Join us on Thursday, February 6th at 10:00am (ET) to support Heather Ellis, PhD candidate, at her public lecture. Heather will be speaking on, "Aftershocks: The Psychological Cost of the Great War." Email historyrsvp@uwo.ca for the zoom link. #westernu
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
WFH Mondays 🥰
Calling all editors! ✍🏻 The Nursing Clio collective is seeking applications for our Acquisitions Editor. Applications are due February 15. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/about/staff/...
Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...
I know what I’m doing on my lunch break this week.
📢Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 📢
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
