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Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley

@smawdsley.bsky.social

Historian of modern American medicine and disability Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley

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Iโ€™m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.

01.08.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Moving Past | A Collection of Archival Films Explore Canadian archival films (1918-1929) and the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau's role in shaping cultural history. Discover how these films influenced public perceptions and complement other primar...

Congratulations to the organizers of The Moving Past. The site offers an interesting collection of digitized archival films from the 1910s-1920s. www.themovingpast.com

04.08.2025 10:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
@bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

15.07.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

03.07.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hear more about Vanessa Northington Gambleโ€™s work from this time - on wrong- doing and ethics - here: ethicsinpractice.net/episode/apol...

02.07.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention: Digital heritage, memory, and the Mau Mau Emergency, 1952โ€“1960 - Bethany Rebisz, 2025 This article examines the legacies of colonial detention in Kenya and considers the adaptive digital heritage practices used by the Museum of British Colonialis...

๐Ÿ”Š New Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @memorystudies.bsky.social

25.06.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Medieval play to be performed for first time in 500 years Audience members can expect "a unique experience combining feast and drama"

We're in Bristol 24/7! www.bristol247.com/culture/thea...

25.06.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910โ€“45" (Cambridge UP, 2023) New Books in History ยท Episode

My first podcast experience! Many thanks to Miranda & @NewBooksNetwork for inviting me to talk about my book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZVI...

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23.06.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm looking forward to reading this book over the summer! Congratulations to Tom Arnold-Forster, a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, for bringing this amazing intellectual biography to print. #ushistory #walterlippmann #biography

19.06.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Medically Manufactured: The Story of Retrolental Fibroplasia By Jenny Hutton ~ When Lula Hardaway was told her 6-week-old baby Stevie was blind, doctors were unable give her an answer as to why. Born two months early in Saginaw, Michigan in May 1950, Stevie โ€ฆ

Congratulations to Bristol PhD student, Jenny Hutton, on her recent NLM blog posting about her historical research. @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

Medically Manufactured: The Story of Retrolental Fibroplasia
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16.06.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Thanks to editor in chief, Jacalyn Duffin, for overseeing this new Oxford Bibliographies medical history collection. I was pleased to offer a starting point for research into the history of rehabilitation and disability. @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

11.06.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ป Dr Amy Edwards (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins David Dimbleby on BBC Radio 4 #InvisibleHands to discuss the use of advertising to promote Margaret Thatcher's BT privatisation campaign in the 1980s

Listen to the full programme ๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/4dYngsF

@somsproject.bsky.social

11.06.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hannah Rose Woods ยท Tactile Dreams The British aversion to touching wasnโ€™t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

'Intimate Subjects includes some irresistible case studies that illustrate the myriad ways in which touch was navigated and examined in the period.'

Dr Simeon Koole's (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) book, Intimate Subjects, is reviewed in this week's @lrb.co.uk

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

04.06.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Think While You Drink (and beyond!) โ€“ School of Humanities: Impact and Engagement

@victoriabates.bsky.social kindly interviewed @kellygcb.bsky.social & I for her new podcast on impact activities at Uni of Bristol. We talk about the ongoing collaboration with Professor Sam Goodman & re-launched series of talks: Think While You Drink

humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...

02.06.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The interplay of life and literature in medieval romance Valentineโ€™s Day is essentially a medieval invention. Chaucerโ€™s dream poem The Parliament of Fowls, which describes a gathering of birds who have met on

'Medieval men and women rarely wrote their own love letters, relying instead on the services of scribes.'

Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) & Myra Stokes's co-edited critical anthology, Medieval Love Letters, is reviewed in this week's TLS

www.the-tls.co.uk/history/medi...

03.06.2025 08:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A fantastic line up- including our very own Sim Kooleโ€™s Intimate Subjects!

30.05.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ“ฃ The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k โœจ
There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi โœจ

15.05.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Massive congratulations @amycking.bsky.social !

12.05.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our CMS PGRs are busy bees at the moment ๐Ÿ getting ready for the CMS PGR conference! #medievalsky

16.04.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is attendance at our next online talk in your future? Come along next week to Dr Will Pooley on 'Tarot and Cartomancy in France from the French Revolution to the 20th Century'. Tues 15 April 2025, 19:00-20:30 BST. Tickets ยฃ6 (ยฃ4 for FLS Members with Promo Code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...

08.04.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Punishing Magic Iโ€™ve been trying to think recently about what happens when cases involving suspicions of witchcrafts reached court in the (very) long nineteenth century (1790-1940). Why did juries, judges, aโ€ฆ

Some thoughts on French courts 1790-1940 pardoning witch-killers and punishing magical fraudsters.

When did examples have to be set?

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/p... ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

10.04.2025 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Join us in Bristol this summer for the Environmental Humanities Summer School, coordinated by our very own @alicewould.bsky.social Learn about environmental storytelling, the deep sea, extinction, histories of darkness, and much more!

www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

08.04.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Some people talk about children as though theyโ€™re completely differentโ€™: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain Childrenโ€™s hospitals are often thought to be special places, marked by particular attention to emotions and careful consideration of inclusive design. Photographs of childrenโ€™s hospitals, or design fo...

Just published - โ€˜Some people talk about children as though theyโ€™re completely differentโ€™: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

03.04.2025 07:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Historians at Bristol | From the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol

Today on Historians at Bristol weโ€™re X-posting an Arts Matter blog by Keith McLoughlin on Concorde and recent efforts to break the sound barrier ๐Ÿ‘‚ โœˆ๏ธ historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

07.04.2025 07:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tarot and Cartomancy in France from the French Revolution to the 20th C The surprising history of how playing cards, including Tarot, came to be one of the most common forms of divination in France after 1789.

There are still tickets for this online talk Iโ€™m giving next Tuesday.

As I like to say, โ€˜come for the #Tarot, stay for the cartomancyโ€™.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...?

07.04.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A total joy to officially launch my book yesterday with the help of @georgenewth.bsky.social! So lovely to see friends and students from different departments and big thanks to the ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น department for hosting (and to Asda for the book cake ๐Ÿ˜‚)

13.03.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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