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Dr Paige Donaghy
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Historian of reproduction, sexuality & medicine in Europe, 1500s-1800s | she/her | Based on Wurundjeri country, in Naarm | Postdoc Fellow, University of Melbourne | views my own 🌻🏳️‍🌈🍉 paigedonaghy.com
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Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social · Aug 6
The next seminar in the Early Modern Circle is on Tuesday 19 August at 6pm at UniMelb ✨

Professor Timothy McCall from Villanova University will be presenting on the topic ‘Fighting for Anghiari’s Standards: Leonardo da Vinci and the Material Culture of War’ ⚔️

We hope to see you there!
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · Jul 16
This week, Australia and Britain mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week 📣

Learn more about the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence from #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social.

#BirthTraumaAwareness #BirthTrauma #ObstetricViolence

Read it here ⬇️
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Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.
www.auswhn.com.au
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Jul 14
This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence
Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.
www.auswhn.com.au
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Jul 14
This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence
Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.
www.auswhn.com.au
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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · Jul 14
That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Jun 10
Check out Lauren's fabulous new blog for @auswhn.bsky.social on history and tradwives 🔦
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Lauren Samuelsson @clemloz.bsky.social · Jun 4
Ever wondered why #tradwives are so white, why they’re always in the kitchen, or what the deal is with raw milk? I’ve just written a piece for @auswhn.bsky.social’s Vida blog. You should read it!

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/colour-...
White Aprons, White Sauce, White … Supremacy? The culinary politics of internet ‘tradwives’ | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Lauren Samuelsson explores the colour white and its links with the tradwife movement and white supremacy.
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Apr 10
🏆The 2025 Hughes Prize for the best book in #histSTM, first published in 2023 or 2024, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists.
Deadline Friday 11 April
Nominations are invited from both individuals and publishers via form at www.bshs.org.uk/submissions-...
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · Mar 24
📢 BSHS Hughes Prize 2025 – Submissions Open! Help us find the best accessible #HistSTEM 📚 out there!

🏆 Award for the best accessible book in #HistSTEM
📚 Published in 2023 or 2024? You’re eligible!
📅 Deadline: 11 April 2025
💰 Prize: £300 + Public Lecture
Submissions open for 2025 Hughes Prize – Deadline 11 April!
Visit the post for more.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Apr 5
PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
University of Leeds - School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP178/p...
PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage at University of Leeds
Discover a PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other P...
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Early Modern Circle @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social · Apr 3
Our first EMC seminar for the year takes place on Tuesday 15 April with Dr Sarah Bendall (@sarahabendall.bsky.social) ✨

Sarah is presenting “Celebrity, Scandal and Friendship: The social and business networks of female milliners in late 17th century London” 👒

All Melbourne-based folks welcome!
This image is a poster advertising the upcoming Early Modern Circle seminar by Sarah Bendall. It states that the talk will take place at the Chisholm Theatrette at the University of Melbourne on 16 April at 6.15pm
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Mar 24
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage at the University of Leeds
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Mar 21
Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...
Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death
Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.
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Federica Gigante @fgigante.bsky.social · Mar 20
📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!

This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Ottoman map of Marseille with the title of the project UNSEEN, spelt as the acronym of “Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European ENcounter with Islamic Material Culture”, with the European Research Committee logo.
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Mar 20
My colleagues at Uni Melb kindly
interviewed me about my PhD research and current postdoc project ✨

You can read here! 🤓

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Meet Dr Paige Donaghy, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in History | Forum
In 2024 Dr Paige Donaghy commenced a prestigious McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship, supporting her historical research on the origins of what we now understand
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · Mar 17
In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · Mar 17
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...
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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · Mar 14
❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗

The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST

The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟

For the zoom link, please email [email protected]
The image is a poster advertising a talk for Paula Michaels' seminar on the history of "miracle cures, medical internationalism and US-Soviet relations, 1943-48". The poster states the talk occurs on 16 April at 7pm AEST and the zoom link is accessible via anzshm@anzshm.org.au
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Mar 12
Check out @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social and I’s paper in the latest special issue of Health & History! Here we review some histories of reproduction and try to think through what might come next. Big thanks to Gayle Davis and Linda Bryder for steering the issue! ✨

muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314
Project MUSE - Health and History-Volume 26, Number 2, 2024
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · Mar 10
In our latest blog VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them.

Fin it here: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/vilific...
Queer Straight Alliance Against Hate- DC Gay Pride Parade 2012. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Michael Stockwell: PhD candidate with the Centre for Heritage and Culture, and the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland.
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Mar 7
Truly I shuddered when I read this 😫
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Mar 7
A gross but interesting archive find this morning in the Wellcome! 19th century case notes of a patient who had ‘a caterpillar’ crawl from their nose whilst in hospital! 🐛😖
An old document with handwritten case notes recording a patient who had a caterpillar crawl from their nose.
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Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social · Mar 5
Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...
OAH | Federal Employees Oral History ProjectOAH | Federal Employees Oral History Project
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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Mar 5
Today @cethompson.bsky.social interviews our 2024 NC prize runner-up Cara Delay. Learn more about Cara’s work on domestic health care and home births in Ireland by reading this fantastic interview! nursingclio.org/2025/03/05/i...
Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2024 Honorable Mention Cara Delay
​For Nursing Clio’s fifth annual best article prize competition, we awarded an honorable mention to Cara Delay, Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, for her …
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · Mar 6
HDR members of the AHA are invited to take part in weekly Shut Up and Write sessions, beginning 17 March on Zoom! Contact [email protected] for more info!
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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · Mar 4
Amazing!! I’m currently in London so very keen to come along to this!
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Mar 3
Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro
Research Fellow
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) at the Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, is looking for a Research Fellow (working within science and technology studies (STS)/medical s...
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