Rob Ellis

Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026 (Plus, a second reserve day of Wednesday 22nd July, subject to ...

cfp Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester 21 July 2026 deadline 15 January royalhistsoc.org/calendar/lif...

A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends This article develops academic literature on the history of the Hospital League of Friends, using the Halifax League as a case study. The League of Friends of the Halifax Hospitals was one of the f...

It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
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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 Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…

Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇

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/...

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

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LD Club meets the Heritage Open Day at Pennine Heritage. Thanks to @mctom.bsky.social, Penny and the pottery team for a fun, interesting and inclusive session.

I’ve received another enquiry about the mental health resource kit developed with @suemoffat.bsky.social @nvborderlines.bsky.social. The ‘Bag of Tricks’ was such a great project but I had forgotten about the website we put together. An incentive to write this up! rflight7.wixsite.com/bagoftricks/...

Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...

Brilliant news, Andrew, congratulations. I really enjoyed working with you and @shaneewen.bsky.social and so good to see your hard work rewarded.

So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.

Thanks Benoît, we will try out best. It was good to catch up - looks like a great project.

Drumroll please🥁🥁
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
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#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social

Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by Rob Ellis.

🎉📚 Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by @rehistories.bsky.social

#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social

Author Spotlight - Rob Ellis discusses 'In Our Own Words' In Our Own Words brings together a collection of essays from a group that became affectionately known as LD (Learning Disability) Club. The project arose from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership …

A bit more detail on ‘In Our Own Words’. Not really meant as a detailed academic contribution but it explains our rationale in aligning knowledge taken from the histories of LD with the needs of everyone involved. unipress.hud.ac.uk/news/163/

A huge team effort including @ionamurphy.bsky.social , @mctom.bsky.social, @louiewheeler.bsky.social, @leoniechesworth.bsky.social, @roryduplessis.bsky.social, @hudunipress.bsky.social

A public history project, a student project, and a co-produced LD project all rolled into one. Primarily a reminder for everyone involved but some insights into what worked for us and some of the ongoing challenges. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...

Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026 “The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers –  International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world  #2 Theories and P...

Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...

A long piece of white paper is covered with colourful drawings. There are blocks of colour as well as images of buildings, people and trees, to the top right someone has written LD Club 2025.

Some co-produced art from the final LD club of the year. Inspired by @ionamurphy.bsky.social and input from everyone inc @mctom.bsky.social and @lucyorkate.bsky.social. Might be of interest @roryduplessis.bsky.social

Notices Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…

sshm.org/notices/
Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!

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Exciting news from Jozefien, one of the Research Fellows on the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. More to follow but I’m jealous of a trip that included the former asylum at Amiens.

To the front are a number of trees in full green leaf. Part of the building (windows framed in orange) can be seen to the right. On the horizon and under cloudy skies are building of different heights and shapes.

A view of Manchester from MMU’s Oxford Road campus.

What brilliant news, it sounds great. Huge congrats 😊

Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture 2025 Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...

If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...

No worries. Always nice to see drive and hard work being rewarded. 😊

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Congrats to @leoniechesworth.bsky.social who has been awarded hugely competitive funding by www.nwcdtp.ac.uk to study towards a PhD. Her focus will be on post war mental health services and she’ll join @manmetuni.bsky.social later this year.

Your semi-regular reminder that registration for this year's conference is currently open!

Get your FREE tickets, and browse our programme, at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/register2025/

Building Britain’s Borders

The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the UK and a new means of controlling them.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

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In Göteborg at an event organised by the wonderful Verusca Calabria at the city’s Medical History Museum. Lots of lovely presentations and workshops and a chance to showcase the ‘bag of tricks’, which resulted from a collaboration with the brilliant @suemoffat.bsky.social and New Vic Borderlines

Hidden Histories exhibition series: Disability League in Yorkshire and the UK - Researcher Reflections - Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire Cricket Heritage is excited to announce our second year partnering with students to research, develop, discover and curate an exhibition centering around underrepresented and marginalised gr...

A quick update on the latest project with @yorkshireccc.bsky.social from @manmetuni.bsky.social undergrad, Jamie. Thanks as ever to Charlotte, the Heritage Manager, the cricket foundation and the club. yorkshireccc.com/news/hidden-...

Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2