Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley

Wonderful couple of hours wandering around Bristol, taking some photos of my new book in old haunts.

It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️

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 👇

🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Prof Beth Johnson (@leedsunimedia.bsky.social) for the final #AutumnArtLecture as she examines how deep inequalities in the TV industry shape both production & representation on screen

📍 Wills Memorial Building
⏰ 6.30-8pm
🎟️ brnw.ch/21wXs2k (free, all welcome!)

For this week's CMS seminar, we are lucky enough to be joined by Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson for a paper on 'Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. We can't wait to find out more! #medievalsky #skystorians

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

I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website

and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner

plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

🗃️🌿🪴

Krishen Khanna at 100: Zehra Jumabhoy and Kajoli Khanna on celebrating the last Progressive Co-curators Zehra Jumabhoy and Kajoli Khanna join hands with NGMA Mumbai for ‘Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive’, on view from November 10 to December 10

'There’s a global awareness that something significant is happening with Asian art.'

Dr Zehra Jumabhoy (History of Art) speaks to GQ India about her new co-curated exhibition, Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive

Read about the exhibition which opens today 👇

www.gqindia.com/content/kris...

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person

We’re SO excited about this!

Group photo of 16 academics on a lawn with an autumnal tree and buildings behind them.

Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives. This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...

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.
#histmed

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

Shamanism across many cultures Shamans were real: they were the magico-religious specialists of Siberian peoples of the Tungus ethnic group, who used that name in their own language to

'Shamanism is enjoying a double boom in the modern world.'

Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews two new books on the subject - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by @manvir.bsky.social & Shamans by Max Carocci - in a new piece for The TLS

Read 👇

www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...

We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians

You should read Electric Wind. Don't take my word for it -

🦋 Bridging Histories is a social enterprise which supports everyday people & communities to achieve they changes they want to see.

Led by Dr Joanna Burch-Brown (Philosophy), Bridging Histories hyper-local focus has had global impact, from Bristol to Bosnia & beyond

Watch the video 👉 bit.ly/4oCFh4c

📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries

Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X

We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!

We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!

#medievalsky #skystorians

Love trumps conventional ethics in Chaucer’s work At the end of Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer submits his poem to “moral Gower” and “philosophical Strode” for corrections. In this thoughtful and eloquent

'When sympathy with Chaucer's Christian beliefs can no longer be taken for granted, alternative philosophies are needed to make sense of Chaucer's ethics.'

Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS

www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians

🎮 Video games are no longer just entertainment. They are tools for change.

The #BristolDigitalGameLab is pioneering this shift, asking not just what games are, but what they can do for society.

Watch the full video to learn more 👉 bit.ly/3KNNe7Q

@richardcole.bsky.social @mikesamuel8.bsky.social

✨ COMING UP: Join Prof Justin Williams for a screening & discussion of a new documentary on Hip-Hop in Tanzania

Part of the Sounding East Africa project, the doc charts the development of hip-hop as part of East African musical history

📆 Thu 30 Oct, 6-9pm
📍 @wshed.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/42oG7Ja

A big thanks and congratulations to Bristol University PhD student Jenny Hutton for all her hard work on this important research project.

Starved for Light A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency.   Rickets, a child...

Available now wherever you buy your #history of rickets books, including directly from the U. Chicago Press site! 🗃️https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo236934960.html

Fascinating stuff from the CMS' own Dr Evan Jones!

#ScholarSunday Thread 242 Published on September 21, 2025

Pleased as punch to see included in Ben Railton's @americanstudier.bsky.social #ScholarSunday this week my blog post about why rickets (and other deficiency diseases) should be reportable!
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

September: erc-grants | News and features | University of Bristol

🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants!

Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...