Michael Reeve

This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.

A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.

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Gender Insight Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...

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Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.

The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.

Deadline 28 Feb 2026

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Wellcome-funded Conference Series Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN will run a three-part series of events. Two fo these will be in-per…

Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social
#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com
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Have you read one of our latest articles by Aleixa Moncrieff and Bart Ziino on 'Chronologies of Coping: Veterans, Experience and Resilience in Australia After the Great War'?

You can read it in full here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Volume 38 Issue 4 | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria
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📣3 days to go until the deadline - we can't wait to see you for our 50th anniversary in Lancaster!

Deadline 15 January 2026!
Special edition journal
Submit now!

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'. #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist

SSHM 2026: In/Out Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawlin…

As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026……
A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026)
Deadline for abstracts: 11 January

Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven)
This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities.
#histmed

CFP | Empires and War
Royal Military College of Canada & University College Dublin
📍 Newman House, UCD | 🗓️ 17–18 September 2026

Papers invited on imperial war from Antiquity onwards. Panel proposals welcome.

📝 Deadline: 15 March 2026
📩 Submissions to: Doug.Delaney@rmc.ca

Details below ⬇️

New bibliography entry: ‘All I have are fragments’: ephemera and cultural memory in contemporary historical fiction about the First World War ift.tt/rDyjwWn #FWWstudies

BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.

Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...

This week we launched a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social

'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited. #Skystorians

Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians!
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...

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@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for SHoW 2025! 🇩🇪

Great conversations and even better company. Our members are at the heart of SHoW, and it really showed this year.

Thank you to the ZMSBw and the University of Potsdam for their hospitality!

If you have photos, please DM them our way!📸

Historical Research Lecture 2025 | Can popular history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public Historical Research Lecture 2025

I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
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Photo of Punjabi_dancers_entertaining_troops_and_locals_during_a_gymkhana_held_by_Indian_muleteers_of_No_32_Animal_Transport_Company (WikiCommons) and the text "Too little, too late: Indian Entertainment in the Mediterranean"

This week's blog post looks at how Indian troops were entertained whilst serving in Italy during the Second World War. Suffice it to say, things could have been improved.
#skystorians

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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.
#histmed #medhumanities

2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!

Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026.

CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social

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
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It's SHoW month! 🎉 We look forward to seeing you all in Potsdam on November 27th and 28th!

How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food? From rationing and humanitarian relief to scientific innovation, state control, and the weaponisation of hunger, food has long been central to the conduct and experience of war. The organisers invite proposals for a two-day conference at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026), exploring the political, social, legal, scientific, and logistical dimensions of food and nutrition in wartime. ✅ Papers may address themes such as: • Technological and scientific innovations • Bureaucratic and legal developments • Feeding of civilian, combatant, and incarcerated populations • Humanitarian logistics • Civilian responses and survival strategies • Food as a tool of coercion, control, or violence • Colonial, civil, and asymmetric warfare 📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22 December 2025 (5pm UK). Hosted by St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Supported by the International Society for First World War Studies and History & Policy.

Call for Papers for Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World

📢 CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).

Sincere thanks from me and Michael Robinson to @badancient.bsky.social and Michael Roper for joining us as Birmingham yesterday and today for another MWHN event. Onwards to the next #milwelfhist

Getting close to the end with our final panels. Wonderful papers from Dr Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Frei Universitat Berlin),Dr Mike Reeve (Open University), Tiago Rocha e Melo (University of Lisbon) and Dr Otman Bychou (Sultan Moulay Silmane University) #milwelfhist

A former children's hospital which has become a casino.

The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.

It is a jam-packed day for the Network, with a two-day symposium still ongoing at @unibirmingham.bsky.social and @paulhuddie.bsky.social giving a Zoom lecture on the military welfare history 'perspective' to the great folks at the University of Buffalo's 'Joining Forces-UB' project #milwelfhist

Prof Michael Roper is now delivering our second keynote lecture at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social conference in Birmingham, focusing on historical conceptions of trauma, inflected through his own family history. Fascinating so far, bringing out so many connections with colleagues’ work #milwelfhist

Co-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