Dr Beatriz Pichel
@beapichel.bsky.social
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
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My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
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The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)*
While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...
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My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I moved offices at work today and I love that the bookshelf had a small shelf at the top the perfect size of the cameras 📸
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I moved offices at work today and I love that the bookshelf had a small shelf at the top the perfect size of the cameras 📸
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This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Also it's not lost on me that the photo that illustrates the article shows a woman of colour at the forefront
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Also it's not lost on me that the photo that illustrates the article shows a woman of colour at the forefront
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🔔 4 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
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ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🔔 4 DAYS TO GO! Job spec, salary details & how to apply here: buff.ly/q1SSXCM
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
ROLE: Ski Collections Cataloguer
FULL TIME: 37 hpw
DURATION: Fixed Term: 5 months
🔔 CLOSING DATE: 25-Nov-25🔔
@dmu.ac.uk @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to please not cite Susan Sontag's work in a photography conference ever again. Please.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to please not cite Susan Sontag's work in a photography conference ever again. Please.
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Are there any freelancers who could help me with pitching my ideas? I'm based in Spain, but getting a job in the creative field is almost impossible, so I'm open to working remotely or as a freelancer.
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Are there any freelancers who could help me with pitching my ideas? I'm based in Spain, but getting a job in the creative field is almost impossible, so I'm open to working remotely or as a freelancer.
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
My areas of expertise are photography (photos & history), cinema, and Korean studies
TIA!
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Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
I had a great time with Kristof's students! They're brilliant. Thanks again for inviting me, it's such a privilege to discuss your work with people who've actually read it!
We discussed this article in class today and students took só much from it
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I had a great time with Kristof's students! They're brilliant. Thanks again for inviting me, it's such a privilege to discuss your work with people who've actually read it!
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From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place.
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it.
Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
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Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
Autumn 2025 #2
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage Pippa Oldfield Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK Tom Allbeson Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Peace Photographies: Rethinking Photo…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our next online research seminar in Photographic Cultures & Heritage will be on 27 Nov, 5.30 pm UK time, with Pippa Oldfield and Tom Allbeson, who will discuss "Peace Photographies". Free and open to all, register here! photographichistory.wordpress.com/autumn-2025-2/ #photohist
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None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.
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There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
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Maternity leave cover for a health humanities post www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Maternity leave cover for a health humanities post www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
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#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
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#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Le temps des épreuves. 50 ans de préservation des photographies - Sciencesconf.org
The age of photographs. 50 years of image preservation.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
THE AGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 50 YEARS OF IMAGE PRESERVATION
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
Call for papers
tempsepreuves.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
#photography
#conservation
#preservation
#conference
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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
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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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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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Because I can't remember names, I'm hoping the person who contacted me about a history of cancer evaluation project'll see this. You emailed several months ago, when I was v busy. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to search my emails to find yours. This message is to say apologies for not responding :s!
This is disgusting and it makes me sick seeing this happening in Spain. Because then they'll act all superior as if these sad pathetic men are better than us. Honestly living in Britain has made me prouder of being Spanish than being born and raised there ever did
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is disgusting and it makes me sick seeing this happening in Spain. Because then they'll act all superior as if these sad pathetic men are better than us. Honestly living in Britain has made me prouder of being Spanish than being born and raised there ever did
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It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
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🚨We’re looking for editors to join our team at The International Journal of the History of Sport @ijhs.bsky.social - if you work on sport history in Latin America or Asia (any countries) please apply for these 2 roles by Dec 3 #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️
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Editor needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport
Editor needed for The International Journal of the History of Sport
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November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🚨We’re looking for editors to join our team at The International Journal of the History of Sport @ijhs.bsky.social - if you work on sport history in Latin America or Asia (any countries) please apply for these 2 roles by Dec 3 #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️
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Anyway, apropos of nothing can I just say that I'm extremely open to being a coPI on your project. I have an impressive CV, can work across a bunch of historical subdisciplines & engage directly with STEM + I write like a fkng unstoppable steam train - you want an article? You got an article! 🗃️
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Anyway, apropos of nothing can I just say that I'm extremely open to being a coPI on your project. I have an impressive CV, can work across a bunch of historical subdisciplines & engage directly with STEM + I write like a fkng unstoppable steam train - you want an article? You got an article! 🗃️
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🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
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This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies.
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Fragile Colours: Perceiving and Experiencing Autochromes (In-Person) - Conferences and study days at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
Focusing on the historic early colour photography process the Autochrome Lumière, this conference explores the research and results of the PERCEIVE project, seeking new ways to understand, exhibit, an...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies.
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation
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Fabulous to see @hopkinspress.bsky.social's DO LESS HARM (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith) reviewed in @thelancet.com!
Buy the book throughout Europe from your bookseller or @blackwells.bsky.social.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Buy the book throughout Europe from your bookseller or @blackwells.bsky.social.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Epistemic dignity
“The opposite of love”, as the saying goes, “is not hate, but indifference.” That
is, as intense emotions, love and hate are so close they can easily shift one into
another—so close they belong togeth...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Fabulous to see @hopkinspress.bsky.social's DO LESS HARM (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith) reviewed in @thelancet.com!
Buy the book throughout Europe from your bookseller or @blackwells.bsky.social.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Buy the book throughout Europe from your bookseller or @blackwells.bsky.social.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...