@katemcal993.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about chronic illness, mental health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺 Views own she/her
Came across this collection by chance this lunchtime, and so glad I did. A really lovely illustration of how art, in this case poetry, ‘can offer a place where certainty and uncertainty mingle’ within medicine.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
And this is… a bad thing?
Most definitely one for the reading list!
Will she be ready for a meeting at 10? Is she talking about herself or her laptop? Who can say
Each morning, laptop seems to be taking longer and longer to turn on, same
Has anyone written something historical on the ‘… for Dummies’ book series? Just seen that there is one on chronic pain(!) and now obsessed with figuring out what that means
Remembering that I actually don’t mind doing footnote formatting lol. What does that say about me
Left all my footnotes to the last minute. Will I ever learn (no)
"In a lot of ways Ive spent a lot of time being the one person willing to say we're all afraid to die and afraid to lose our loved ones..."
Oh really, Justin? You're the only one willing to say death is scary?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...
I think this is more common than many of us feel able to admit… myself included…
: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
The redemption arc we all need right now
For those of you also hanging on by a thread, there is a story out there at the moment about a little monkey called Punch who was first abandoned (😔) by his mum but has now found a friend in a stuffed orangutan toy and has learnt to walk, honestly have a look
The table was bought by my grandparents in the early 1960s (we think), when Grandma was a little bit younger than me. It still has the old label with their surname, from when they reserved it in the shop!
Small joys. This dressing table belonged to my Grandma, and was recently refurbished by my Mum. Every morning when I sit there, I think about them and all they’ve given to me
"We have a challenge here in the face of appalling things happening around the world not to give in to a politics of despair because that's exactly what the people in power want us to do."
Laura C. Forster, Julia Laite, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey on doing history in turbulent times.
this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)
SIGNED off. Sighed works too though
How are things going? Well, I just sighed off an email with ‘All the best, Ket’, so
#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor
Honorarium
Deadline: 9 March 2026
Please circulate
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Taking some much-needed time to reflect and refocus, and want to know, what have you read recently that has cracked open your thinking on history, health, disability, pain, inequality, experience?
Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Also stuff on creative health approaches please!
Perfect, thanks so much!
