Dr Anna Jamieson
@annafranjam.bsky.social
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
DON'T FORGET to register for #BSECS2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026.
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
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It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
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At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled to be part of this special issue and to see my article, "I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers' now online #openaccess @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social #mentalhealth #womenshist
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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‘I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health, and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers
This article examines how space, sociability, and letter-writing are conceptualised as self-care strategies by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Building on a recent proliferation of int....
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November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thrilled to be part of this special issue and to see my article, "I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers' now online #openaccess @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social #mentalhealth #womenshist
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A few more tickets remain for the poetry reading at the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov 19, 1.30-3.30pm. We'll talk about the ways in which poets represented their experiences as patients and doctors throughout history.
The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness
Eventbrite - Scottish Poetry Library presents The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness - Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Find event and ticket inf...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A few more tickets remain for the poetry reading at the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov 19, 1.30-3.30pm. We'll talk about the ways in which poets represented their experiences as patients and doctors throughout history.
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2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
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RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
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North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
Huntington Exchange Fellowship - University of Birmingham
Information for prospective applicants wishing to apply to the Huntington for a Fellowship to visit the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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We will return on 18th. November with Emma Marshall, who will present 'Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750'.
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750
www.history.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We will return on 18th. November with Emma Marshall, who will present 'Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750'.
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist
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I’ll be speaking about the very object featured below - the Le Vacher machine - and how mothers in Georgian England used devices like it to 'straighten' children’s bodies. #HistMed #MaterialCulture #MedicalHumanities #18thCentury
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’ll be speaking about the very object featured below - the Le Vacher machine - and how mothers in Georgian England used devices like it to 'straighten' children’s bodies. #HistMed #MaterialCulture #MedicalHumanities #18thCentury
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Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!
Mad Pride, Mad Perspectives: Centre for Mad Culture UK launch night
Be part of the launch of Centre for Mad Culture UK — a night of bold art, powerful voices, and mad cabaret.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!
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Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900!
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
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The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
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 Rawling Conference Co…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
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We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
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New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!!
My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD
Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m
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October 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!!
My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!
Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!