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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · 9d

Our first session is this Wednesday @laurenkassell.bsky.social

Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

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Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Join us tomorrow (29 October) for #casebookstherapy!!
@jakubochocinski.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
#histmed #astrology #histsci #earlymodern

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

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Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social · Aug 9

Casebooks is here. Stay tuned for the #casebookstherapy 2025-2026 schedule #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology @jakubochocinski.bsky.social

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!

Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Mar 17

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Apr 14

Correction!!! This Wednesday!! April 16. 2025!!

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Apr 14

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks Hurst for all your work with me!

Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · Mar 13

Happy publication day @maryfissell.bsky.social! 🥳⭐

Abortion: A History is out today! 🌱

‘Fascinating...Fissell specialises in digging out individual stories from behind the headlines and the grandstanding.’ — @telegraphnews.bsky.social, 5⭐ review

25% off with code FISSELL25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yybsa2wp

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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thanks Heffers and @sbrooksfranklin.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation last night, delighted to see old friends and meet many students and get great questions! bit.ly/4ibijON

2 feminist scholars in conversation about Mary Fissell's Abortion: A history

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · Mar 17

#otd 1627 Napier records a visit by 'on[e] Mr Eastworth a yorkesheerman' who 'should have broght me Mres Kays letter for the taking of physick against melanch[oly] but forgot it & the token of gold in it & left it behind him in yorke sheere'. He 'will send it if he can'.

Manuscript image of the quoted text (CASE63427 in the online edition).

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Mar 17

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Feb 17

Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 19 February. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jan 27

☎️Calling #HistMed Students & New Graduates📢
The Roy Porter Essay Prize deadline is 1 Feb! Submit for the chance to win cash, a conference plenary slot, mentoring, & places at our publication masterclass! Details, eligibility & entry form 👇
#HistSTM
sshm.org/portfolio/pr...

Prizes

2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …

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Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social · Jan 23

My latest article is available in open access. It's on the boundary between fraud and substitution in ancient medicine. Writing it as part of the Sawyer lectures was particularly stimulating: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Dark Side of Sunthesis? Fraud and Substitution in Graeco-Roman Pharmacology

This paper examines one specific aspect of the compounding—sunthesis in Greek—of remedies in ancient pharmacy, namely the substitution of one or several of the ingredients stipulated in th...

link.springer.com

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today we talked about Emily Martin's amazing 1991 "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" in the #histmed research seminar @eui-history.bsky.social. The final pages are eerily prescient. @cam-repro.bsky.social @maryfissell.bsky.social

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Louisa Niesen @lottelouisa.bsky.social · Jan 13

Join us for this exciting event on History in Video Games and Digital Media at the @eui-eu.bsky.social

With

@elisa-chazal.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social
and Anastasia Remes

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Press start? Video games and the use of history

The Public History and the Visual and Material History working groups host an event focused on using history in video games and digital media and the possibilities for disseminating history through th...

www.eui.eu

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Jan 10

Join us to read the #earlymodern #casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier online @eui-history.bsky.social. Next session: 15 January. #histmed #histsci #astrology @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Jan 7

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/m...
Today I had nothing to say.

Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell Us?

Many owners think so, thanks to the “talking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.

www.nytimes.com

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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · Dec 17

Come to Berlin in August! Submit your abstract for a paper or propose a panel, hope to see you there! Deadline for submissions in March. #histmed #histSTM #eahmh

Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · Dec 17

Call for Papers for the biannual conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Berlin August 26-29, 2025. Submission is now open! #histmed hi.converia.de/frontend/ind...

Home – EAHMH 2025 Health Beyond Medicine

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · Dec 12

Think you might use our digital edition *at all*? Then now is your chance to make sure it works for you as well as possible. Have a play and then press the feedback icon and spend 30 seconds or so letting us know what wasn't so great so we can try and fix it!
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire #FamilyHistory

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Dec 12

We are counting down to the end of work on our digital edition. Could you click the feedback button on our site (bottom right icon) & let us know about any 'pain points' so we can tweak them while we still have the aid of the amazing @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social? TIA! 🗃️ #DH
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

Alice Thornton's Books

This AHRC-funded research project will create an online digital edition of all four of Alice Wandesford Thornton's autobiographical manuscripts.

thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Dec 11

www.drawingrome.com
Attention #histsci #histart #drawing Learn to see Rome by drawing Rome. No prior skill necessary. Limited places remaining for 5 - 8 February 2025. #britishschoolatrome @sietskefransen.bsky.social

Drawing Rome

www.drawingrome.com

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute!

We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life!

📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Dec 8

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.

#skystorians

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.

Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

uk.bookshop.org

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Dec 2

The SSHM Lecture 2024 to TODAY at 4pm. It will be delivered by Prof. Lauren Kassell, ‘Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine’. BOOK NOW

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The SSHM Lecture 2024

Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Helen Lindley @helenlindley.bsky.social · Nov 29

As a result of the Bodleian Folk archives being no longer available from today, I'd like to try to get an idea of how many of us use it, how, and how often. It's such a vital resource for so many of us. I've set up an email at [email protected] for this so please do feed back

Image shows a page where the Bodleian Broadside Ballad archives used to be informing visitors that the online archive has been withdrawn.

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