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The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/ #histmed
✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website
Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
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🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟
Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970
with Prof Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle (or Sydney-based)
Domestic students only
Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗
More information ⬇️
www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
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WG5 Seminar Series: Worldmaking through Health: Notes on Yugoslav Social Medicine and the Moral Imagination of Global Health speaker Jelena Kupsjak (University of Zadar, Croatia)
12 Dec 2025
12.30pm CET
#Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159
Working Group 1 seminar 10 December 2025 1pm CET
Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962
Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet)
ONLINE - link via email / bulletin
#Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History
✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website
Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed
Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
25.11.2025 22:22 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS annual conference. See our post for a breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern #publichealth across Italy, Mughal India, and England. premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568
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Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
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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 👇
Call for Statements of Interest - open now!
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
New Wellcome report examines how archives, manuscripts and material culture are currently used in life, health and wellbeing research, identifying 15 recommendations to enhance methodological innovation and cross-disciplinary experimentation.
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#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory
13.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0Im looking for other scholars in #DisHist #HistMed or #VastEarlyAmerica for a SHEAR 2026 panel. Tim Holliday and I are hoping to put a panel together on how patient knowledge shaped medicine in the early republic 1/3
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Promotional image for a Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum event. It includes text with the event title, date and location, and a grainy photograph from 1985 of a woman holding the hands of a patient. The photo is from the RCN's collection of historic nursing journals.
Together with the RCN History of Nursing Forum and HIVstory, we're remembering the experiences of nursing workers during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Discover their stories and learn more about the project at our event on 27 November.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals .
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social
13.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
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
Physician's gallery @rcpedin.bsky.social new permanent gallery and learning centre that explores relationship with health, medicine and our bodies. Over 50 objects, manuscripts and books on display, sharing stories from medieval medicine to modern day treatments.
Free and open to all
#histmed
Image of a poster with picture of medicine jars on shelves and text 'Representing medicine in the past' Wednesday 4 February 2026 5:30-7.45pm at RSM, London or online.
image of a poster showing a treatment room with blue walls containing medical equipment and a radiator. This advertises presentation 'Histories of Medical care in prisons'. Wednesday 14 January 2026 5:30-7:35pm at RSM London or online.
Sharing forthcoming @roysocmed.bsky.social events (in person and online).
Just search 'medicine' on the events page to find out more about these events in January and February and others
www.rsm.ac.uk/events/
Please note fees may apply.
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
We want to hear your memories of birth. As part of projects by
@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970”
🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
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#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.
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A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist
06.11.2025 23:14 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Co-convenor Michael Robinson has just kicked off our @milwelfhist.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social symposium at Birmingham on war, trauma and emotional injury. Some excellent papers and discussion to come this afternoon and into tomorrow #milwelfhist
06.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
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The cover of Do Less Harm.
The cover of The Nursing Clio Reader.
Looking to spice up your #histmed classes? Consider two new books coming out just in time for Fall 2025! Full of pithy and provocative essays, Do Less Harm (ed. me & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social) and The Nursing Clio Reader (@nursingclio.bsky.social) offer new perspectives to meet the moment. 1/2
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