Coreen McGuire

Oh it's because of seaplanes

Reading a 1922 government report that refers to 'Air stations' and wondering why on earth we didn't go for plane stations as the preferred term? Petition to change all the airports to plane stations forthwith!

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester.

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Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Henri Bergson and why vanity makes us laugh Uniting in collective mockery of self-obsessed billionaires can help us to remain sane Emily Herring A black and white photo of Henri Bergson

I wrote about why it is imperative that we make fun of the maniacs who govern us and their billionaire friends

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Equal pay – a long time coming. Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act

Last chance to book for this evening’s special online seminar @ihr.bsky.social at 5.30pm BST. It will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Please register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain

"Eugenics - academic and practical - has always been a numbers game"

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Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …

Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!

Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Could you do an ocean liner though?

A picture of Epicurus wearing sunglasses. Title: When Epicurus took an all-inclusive holiday A package resort deal reminded me of one of the most important things in life – the ancient Greek philosopher would have approved Emily Herring 10 Sep 2025 12:00 AM

I wrote about my first ever package holiday and the beauty of experiencing weirdness with a dear friend

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Thinking of you xx

Save the Dates in your planners!
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.

Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social

Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed

Very excited to be giving a Thackray Insights lecture on February 7 with the wonderful @victoriabates.bsky.social! Our event is titled 'The Sick Sense', and will centre on the significance of the senses and colour in experiences of illness and recovery.

thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

This is excellent:

This was the first time I've done a review essay ft multiple books and I found it very challenging but very rewarding!

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered
For more info:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065
#HPS 🗃️

New review article, 'disability history gets to work' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

philjobs.org/job/show/29502

philjobs.org/job/show/29506

Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

YES EXACTLY:

'Publishing is so attached to the idea of a narrative arc that peaks with healing that it simply cannot encompass the truth: if it were that simple, no one would be ill. If we could all walk or swim or wild ourselves better, one in five of us would not be disabled'.

I found this helpful tenbluelinks.org

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The experiences of Communard refugees in Britain and Ireland In 1886, Paschal Grousset, once a member of the executive committee of the Paris Commune, found himself troubled by Victorian Dublin’s food options.

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

Transactions article, first page: 'George Alfred Walker’s Public Health Campaign for Burial Reform, 1839–1852' by Richard Bellis and Thomas Farrow.

New in Transactions: 'George Alfred Walker’s Public Health Campaign for Burial Reform, 1839–1852' by Richard T. Bellis & Thomas J. Farrow bit.ly/46Xzssq

In this article, Richard and Thomas consider the intersection of sanitary and burial reform in the career of George Alfred Walker #Skystorians 1/2

Delighted that this has been published. It resulted from my residency on the wonderful @thehumanremains.bsky.social . Tom was an excellent collaborator, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to grips with medical debates over burial reform in the mid-nineteenth century.

3 frame Simpsons meme, where Moe throws Barney out if his bar, only for Barney to reappear behind Moe’s back. moe is labelled “Francis Fukuyama” and Barney is “History”

The paper also makes use of a unique set of eighteenth-century sources: all stages of image production for several of Baillie's plates survive, from the original anatomical preparation, through the preparatory watercolours and copperplate, to the printed images.

New article out today! 'The Structures and Textures of Disease Made Printable' focuses on how the illustrations for Matthew Baillie's morbid anatomy were made through collaborations with the artist William Clift and a team of engravers associated with the Royal Society. doi.org/10.1086/736874

Surprise -- @coreenanne.bsky.social & I have a biography on Kerridge coming out, perhaps next year :)

@richardtbellis.bsky.social this is definitely for you