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CFP: Sensation Fiction and Health Humanities VPFA study day March 2026. See pinned post! Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 9d
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 4d
🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇
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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 5d
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:

1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 8d
Welcome to @tamarinnorwood.bsky.social, who joins us as a Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab 🥳

We're looking forward to working with you!

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Welcome to Tamarin Norwood: New Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab
Welcome to Tamarin Norwood, who joins us as an Honorary Fellow in the Visual & Material Lab.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 9d
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 10d
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 10d
One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline!

Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 17d
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 12d
📢New online event!💥

Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult
SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025
Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 16d
Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 18d
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 16d
Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed

📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm
🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...
Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain, IN-PERSON
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Institute of Education, UCL
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 25d
CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
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Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Sep 9
Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites abstract submissions for an IMC Leeds 2026 panel, "Time to Heal: Temporalities in Care and Cure", to explore the myriad ways in which time and health intermingled. Due 20/9.

#histmed #imcleeds #medmed @medica.bsky.social
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 29d
💫New Workshop #CfP💫

'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social.

#HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event
www.birmingham.ac.uk
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 26d
Love this idea! @lboroenglish.bsky.social students, did you know Ladybird books were originally printed and published in Loughborough? 🐞
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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 29d
has anyone done a #histmed or #histSTM study of changes to representations of health/medicine/science in the ladybird books?
On a small scale feels like an amazing ug diss project, or even something smaller than that with just a few books.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 29d
Old Ladybird books updated.

‘Visiting days’ (1963) and ‘Visiting hours’ (1985).

Artists: John Berry
Martin Aitchison
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Sep 11
Two of our academics - @wvmierlo.bsky.social and Dr Barbara Cooke - will be speaking at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) Modernist Editing Symposium on 23 September. More details here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...
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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · Sep 5
CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Aug 26
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · Aug 7
Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · Aug 7
In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
Tarot card image of the empress with a crown of stars. Text reads Weird Modernisms BAMS/ MSA 1- 4 July 2026 Loughborough University, UK
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jul 12
📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
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RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social · Jul 24
📣JOB ALERT 📣 The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has a vacancy for a Project Records Assistant, which will give experience of both Archives & Records Management. Closing date 5 pm on 22 Aug. Come join the Heritage team! cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/rcsed/jobs/p...
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Jul 9
📢 Apply for a 3-year BA Postdoctoral Fellowship with us. Open to those within 3 years of PhD and without a permanent post. Identify a mentor - www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng... - to support an app (a short EOI form & 2-page CV). Internal deadline 11 August 2025. More info here: lnkd.in/eM7jNaTg
Staff | English | Loughborough University
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · Jun 20
The exhibition is interactive and diverse, and such a wonderful representation of the kind of research going on in the Health Humanities at Loughborough. A big congratulations to all involved in this fantastic event. ✨ Also, a moment of appreciation for the mini plague doctor...
This image is a picture of a miniature plague doctor figure. The figure is small (just a few inches tall) and it is a person dressed in all black with a black hat and the iconic plague mask.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · Jun 20
As if that wasn't enough, there are also three art displays including zines, embroidery, and the beautiful 'quarantine quilt'.
This is a close image of the quarantine quilt. It is large and made of mostly red, orange, and yellow patches. Each patch has a unique pattern. In the middle the pattern looks like two windows representing the memory of having to stay at home during COVID-19. This is an image of the 'Quarantine Quilt project'. It explains the display and the individuals who participated in the creation of the quilt.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · Jun 20
And more on Spanish flu and COVID-19 from @jadefrench.bsky.social and @justin-waring.bsky.social.
This is another picture of the display of images. This picture includes some images of literary texts on pandemics and healthcare. Also lots of images of archival objects including bottles and bowls.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · Jun 20
We have research from @drclaireocall.bsky.social on tuberculosis.
The image shows a display of images. The images include a portrait of the Brontë sisters. There are archival pictures of handkerchiefs and masks.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · Jun 20
@saralread.bsky.social and Joan Fitzpatrick have crafted early modern plague remedies to try.
Image shows a lady interacting with visitors to the early modern remedy section of the exhibit. Another lady is smelling some of the herbs. Image shows the early modern remedy display. It is a table with some relevant academic books on the left side. There is a small brown chest with drawers. In the middle is the small bowls of herbs and spices and on the right side there are larger mixing bowls.
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