Dr Hannah Blythe

The Centre is delighted to invite applications for the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson studentship, allowing the successful applicant to undertake a three-year PhD in the History of Public Health. Please circulate widely. More details can be found via the link below.

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This looks like an amazing opportunity and a fascinating project #histmed #phd

Leprosy, stigma and the fight for patient agency | LSHTM This presentation examines the cultural legacy of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and its stigmatisation in the 19th century onwards, using 20th century Brazil as a case study.  Its target audience is

Join us for our next seminar on 26 February, when @olibasciano.bsky.social (author of Outcast, F&F:2025) will be discussing the cultural legacy of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). Details below:

Location: G08/ Hybrid (link below)
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

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This looks fascinating!

Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)

Sounds like a great idea to make use of these wonderful rooms

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Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds!
Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to sshm2026leeds@leeds.ac.uk
More details at:
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So useful!

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!

We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

And here is David W. Jones’s Bluesky @davidwynj.bsky.social

Very good question. I really hope this material remains accessible.

Essential Comforts | Blogs from the Archives-Barts Health NHS Trust Christmas Charity in the Early NHS

It's advent, so here's a blog I wrote last year about how NHS hospitals have used charity to observe Christmas @bharchives.bsky.social
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I did not know this! Do you know where it will be dispersed to? I really love this article - so many fascinating threads for further research come out of it too.

#mentalhealth #healthhumanities #history #psychosocial #recovery #rehabiliation #psychology #psychiatry #survivor #charity

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Sixth article is by Jeanette Copperman and Sarah Chaney @kentishscribbler.bsky.social

The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women

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Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 - Ulrich Koch, 2025 This article uses the early history of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a lens to draw out the epistemic and ethical-political stakes of rehabilitation ...

Fifth article is by Ulrich Koch @ulikoch.bsky.social ky.social

Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74

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Fourth article is by Rachael I. Rosner

Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory

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Third article is by Grace Whorrall-Campbell @whc-grace.bsky.social

Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83

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Second article is by David W. Jones and Craig Fees @cfees.bsky.social

Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain

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Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928 - Hannah Blythe, 2025 This article argues for the importance of studying life after mental illness. A significant proportion of people who experience mental illness recover, but the ...

First article is by me:

Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928

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Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles.

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives

Here’s our co-authored Intro:
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Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social:

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives

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Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!

The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.

Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025 Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...

I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives

Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025 Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives

Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I did end up with amazing supervisors, plus an affiliation with a London uni. But if I’d not secured funding elsewhere, finances would have been very scary!

The cost of living in London (six years ago) was the primary reason I did not do my PhD in London. Even with a stipend more generous than the UKRI’s, it would have been financially a ludicrous, practically unviable, decision. PhD students need to be treated and paid like independent adults

History of Medicine CFPs If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…

Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist

Thanks @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
@mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.

Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!