@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
ugh 🥴 hope the migraines ease up for you soon. Just awful!
07.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gwent Archives needs your help! Over the last few months we have been working with the 'Divergent Minds in the Archives' project.
Led by a group of neurodivergent humanities academics and over the course of a series of workshops, a guide has been produced for visiting Gwent Archives.
"The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination" - @robbhawkes.bsky.social & Scott Ferguson's piece is excellent.
Also: 1/2
That was very striking.
05.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How weird. I just searched for you on FB and you are no longer coming up.
04.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Perfectly safe...
04.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
02.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Stiff upper lip and denial of any general pandemic trauma or environmental collapse grief is useful when there is a year-long (at least) waiting list for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. But hey, who needs to address children's feelings?
30.09.2025 08:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An amazing opportunity to serve the field at a defining moment
27.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
📢New online event!💥
Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇
#histmed #histSTM #matcult
only three episodes in, but enjoying it very much!
29.09.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
29.09.2025 11:23 — 👍 12 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.
If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.
They welcome donations too.
Our latest blog is up! Read about Lucy Reed's research
@uor-research.bsky.social tracing continuity and change in herbal practices in Britain #herbalism #histmed
herbalhistory.org/home/placing...
51 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND!!!! 🐳🦑
24.09.2025 21:58 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I am so sorry for your loss, Lorna.
23.09.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
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Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines.
my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives.
Deadline: Oct 3rd.
ours too.
22.09.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0❤️❤️❤️ beautiful.
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The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome).
'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
📅Monday 6 October [Online]
🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time)
Register via the link on the webpage
#histmed #histSTM
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19.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0exactly! not really new information by the 1950s.
18.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Paleontologists and geologists were discussing a carbiniferous period long before the 50s, which went alongside certain geological traits and coal... (quick scan of wikipedia page on carboniferous.)
18.09.2025 10:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0so quacking cute!
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