Dr Ciara Henderson presenting her proposal in the WG2 workshop in Granada of our @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
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06.02.2026 11:14 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
And another traveling on an Irish passport! βοΈ
15.01.2026 22:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#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
15.01.2026 21:51 β π 7 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
My paper today with @lolaruizberdun.bsky.social for our @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social event in Alcala on healthcare in southern Europe and the Mediterranean
15.01.2026 16:25 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks. Currently cold and wet! π₯Ά
14.01.2026 11:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking forward to this event and to presenting a paper with our brilliant organiser @lolaruizberdun.bsky.social on maternity services in Spain and England 1920-60. BTW Alcala de Henares is a lovely city. Looking forward to a walk in the hills this afternoon!
14.01.2026 11:17 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
Continuity and Change in Southern European and Mediterranean Healthcare (1850β2000) hosted at Facultad de Medicina AlcalΓ‘ de Henares university by WG1 this Fri & Sat - this is hybrid so check bulletin for link if you can't join in person #HistMed #Skystorians #MedHums
13.01.2026 21:01 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Glory Days!
He may have been an electro superstar and co written the second biggest selling single of all time but Iβve still got my hair!
08.01.2026 20:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Happy new year Simon. Whoβda thought I had a new year number 1 50 years ago? π€·π»ββοΈ
08.01.2026 19:55 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
The @LibDems won more council by election seats than any other party and secured the second highest vote share of any party. It really is a two horse race!
23.12.2025 11:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yesterday I delivered my inaugural address as a full member of the Academy of Nursing Sciences of the Community of Madrid (Spain) titled βLights and shadows in the History of Midwives in Madridβ @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
16.12.2025 06:23 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Reform win in Scotland!
Whitburn and Blackburn West Lothian by election. Reform beat Labour and SNP. Coming from 3rd place in 2024.
12.12.2025 11:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Fort William and Ardnamurchan by election result 1st Prefs:
Lib Dem 925
SNP 665
Reform 220
Green 216
Con 175
Lab 87
Lib Dem elected at stage 5
@assoclibdemcllrs.bsky.social @electionmaps.uk
12.12.2025 11:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I tried this during the summer. I concur. π€·π»ββοΈ
12.12.2025 08:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨BREAKINGπ¨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
09.12.2025 15:21 β π 962 π 341 π¬ 59 π 59
CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025
Dr Angela Cassidy
From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria
Another seminar for your diaries: on 9 December we are welcoming Dr Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social for a talk on the multiple lives of modern mycobacteria.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
05.11.2025 14:55 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025
Dr Angela Cassidy
From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria
Trundling my way on a train through v. soggy Somerset Levels to join old friends & new @manchstm.bsky.social. Will be talking this afternoon on mycobacterial movements across human, animal and ecosystem health ever since we've known these #microbes #histSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
09.12.2025 11:12 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
You may have seen this before in the other place but I love this picture of EP Thompson with his cat circa 1980 πββ¬
22.11.2025 13:24 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sorting books to sell. Got to this. Very reluctant to let it go even if Iβll never make use of it again! (Also itβs in good condition somehow π§)
11.11.2025 18:06 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm sure you know about Helen Rutherford but just in case. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...
06.11.2025 12:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Imagining a health service without hospitals: French West Africa between the wars
The pre-publication version of my paper Imaging a Health Service Without Hospitals: French West Africa between the wars is available to read on my Manchester webpage.
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...
06.11.2025 11:57 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Medicine and industrial society : a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752-1946 : Pickstone, John V : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xi, 369 p. : 24 cm
Thanks Rebecca
The Ur text on this topic is John Pickstone Medicine and Industrial Society archive.org/details/medi...
Also have a look for Steve Cherry on Norfolk and Norwich and Gorsky, Mohan and Willis book on Contributory Schemes. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719065798/
06.11.2025 11:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Anthropologist, Historian and Researcher, Consultant with Disabled Students UK, Project Officer with Pride Cymru for the Stronger Together Project
Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Lecturer @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org / co-head transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for https://www.daad-canada.ca/en
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow | Knee Center, WVU | Economic history & public health in colonial India
https://malikahussain.github.io/
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Social and medical historian | pt PhD 16thC English medicine, networks and recipes. Tudor living history with Linstock and Pledget and garden enthusiast.
Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
She/her
Historian of in-betweens: architecture, health, and modernity. Writing on hygiene, sanatoria, domesticity, TB culture, childhood, and everyday life in the 1920sβ50s. PhD, based in Berlin.
History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Professor of Economic & Social History | Historical demography | Histories of medicine, health, and healing | Netherlands | Suriname | sub-Saharan Africa
University of Groningen
