Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here β¬οΈ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi
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Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History | Historical Transactions
I'm delighted that @royalhistsoc.org has published our roundtable article on 'The Future of (Environmental) History'.
This came out of a workshop in April 2023 with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
I've summarised our paper (link to OA article) in a blog π
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...
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The spine and cover of a book. The spine (left) has four images of people: Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis, separated by colored lines. With the title and author in white. The cover includes the title in white (The Westerners: Myth-Making and Belonging on the American Frontier) above and the author name (Megan Kate Nelson) below. The image is in mossy greens, with mountains in the background and a river or lake in the foreground, with a group of women navigating it on a raft.
"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine!
Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth.
Pub date: April 21, 2026!
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The Inaugural St Andrews Medical Humanities Network Symposium was a fascinating event to attend and was just as interesting to write about for this review!
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Islay Grace Shelbourne
More about me can be found here, including links to some of my recent publications and conference papers:
research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/i...
I'm looking forward to posting more about flu, TB and early 20th century medicine soon!
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Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories
History Podcast Β· Welcome to Miniatures, the Podcast for the History of Everyday Life.
We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what...
Outside of the PhD, I teach in both the Schools of History and Medicine at St Andrews, and you may have heard me on the Miniatures podcast, which I have produced and presented on from January 2023. You can listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
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More broadly, I am interested in the history of influenza, tuberculosis, osteopathy, debates around medical authority and expertise, and patent medical advertising in a Western US context.
I will be exploring some of these in a short term fellowship following my PhD submission in the fall!
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My thesis explores how pre-pandemic experiences of tuberculosis, the continued prevalence of pre-germ theory understandings of contagion, and the legacy of Southern California's 19th century health rush shaped understandings of disease during the influenza pandemic ππ¦ π
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Hey Bluesky! My name is Islay and I am a final year Environmental History PhD Candidate @standrewshist.bsky.social where my research explores understandings of contagion in Southern California during the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic.
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Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
PhD researcher | UTU-GreDiT program (Solutions for Green and Digital Transition) | University of Turku
Interested in evolutionary human health. Studying the spatial distribution of death causes in historical and contemporary Finland. π³οΈβπ
Historian of health and medicine in the maritime world
Currently a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich
Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
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
Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Musican, historian and biologist. Melodic ambient soundscapes and parasitic worms. He/him
Researching hookworm, guinea worm, environmental history, parasitology, ecology, and Caribbean & Cornish history.
PhD candidate in modern history in St Andrews
BA Sichuan University MA UCL
19-20th century Southeast Asia, British and American Empires and global Chinese Overseas
particularly knowledge of βhuaqiaoβ in Sinophone context, book and print trade in Nanyang
Historian | Made in π«π· Lives in π¬π§ Writes about πΊπ² | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | π SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA ποΈ | π² +πΆπ»ββοΈ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770β1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
PhD student researching rhetoric, health crises (past and present) and public memory. #TeamRhetoric #histmed | interested in #STS, histories of tuberculosis patient advocacy, and emerging memory practices around COVID | Writing Center pedagogy
-Historian, American West, Borderlands, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
-Professor @ BYU & Assoc. Director @byureddcenter.bsky.social
-Podcast Host/Producer @WritingWestward.bsky.social
-Editor IntermountainHistories.org
-Books/Projects linktr.ee/BWRensink
#CA22159 National, International & Transnational Histories of Healthcare 1850-2000. #European #Researchers Join Here https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159 #Skystorians #Heritage #History #HealthHist #MedHum #EuroHealthHist #COSTActions
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
She/Her/Hers
Interested in chronic illness, crip theory and contemporary lit. Bookseller. He/Him.
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -
Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Environmental historian working on the climate emergency
Doing a PhD. in disability history from legal sources of Justinian.
