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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Aug 8

~ Public Health Humanities Toolkit ~
Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!)
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Public Health Humanities | LSHTM

Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice.

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Aug 6

And solicitors getting probate would advertise for creditors /debtors, which might attract some public attention to the death and the will, I guess...?

Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Aug 6

Don't think they are/ were published as such, but if probate was granted you can get a copy of the will from the Probate registry for about a tenner. I think you just need a full name and date of death. Possibly also address or area where they lived

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 5

We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!)

⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jul 2

open letter published today on Gaza - initiated by fantastic colleagues at LSHTM:
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action

For nearly 20 months, since October 2023, Palestinians in Gaza have endured a relentless campaign of annihilation. The statistics alone defy comprehension: over 56 000 people killed—one third of them ...

doi.org

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨

#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!

Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.

#HistSTM

Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · May 28

So many true crime podcasts out there and this is the one I actually want

jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · May 26

imagine being loved and accepted for who you are like this wow

A tortoise squints maliciously under a headline reading “Tortoise rescued after setting house on fire”

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Apr 3

Next week: join us!

LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below:
Location: G40, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

British naval surgeons and tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century |

This presentation explores how the treatment of British seamen aided the development of tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century. The paper will be of interest to staff and students who want to

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Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social · Mar 19

History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

History UK Disability and History Project

The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

www.history-uk.ac.uk

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Feb 12

yes! I'm also eagerly awaiting :)

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Megan Graham @meggraham9.bsky.social · Feb 4

Delighted to have been invited to share my doctoral research at the LSHTM Centre for Public Health Seminar tomorrow. Join online if you can make it.

⏰ 12.45 (UK time)
🗓️ 5th February 2025

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

In pursuit of justice and wellness: Aboriginal health activism as resistance in

This presentation explores the development of grassroots Aboriginal Medical Services in late twentieth century Indigenous Australia. Created by and for the community in 1971, these Aboriginal Medical

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 30

might adopt 'avoiding mould, pneumonia and capitalism' as my mantra for 2025

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · Jan 30

The 12v electronics in my are out of action taking the underfloor heater with it for six weeks, with wet tree planting stuff in there. It got dangerously damp.

Avoiding mold, pneumonia, and capitalism, I borrowed a dehumidifier from the Bath Library of Things. £1.07 for one day. Sorted!

A small white dehumidifier sat in the middle of my camper van.

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 29

Spring. It's a-comin

close up photograph of a small patch of snowdrops on a patch of brown-green ground

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 22

Don't forget to *register in advance* for Samuel Vermote and lesbian motherhood! www.history.ac.uk/seminars/his...

History of Sexuality

Queer(ing) history, sexual reform and identity-based movements, medical and criminological discourses on sexuality, and representations of sexuality.

www.history.ac.uk

Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 22

And the Centre for History in Public Health seminar is at 12.45 GMT with Drs Grace Redhead and Rebecca Lynch: 'The unfairness of place: A cultural history of the UK’s ‘postcode lottery’' #histmed
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

The unfairness of place: A cultural history of the UK’s ‘postcode lottery’ | LSHTM

Examination of the history of the UK’s ‘postcode lottery’

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 22

Tuesday 28 Jan is a big day for great seminars online:
The IHR History of Sexuality seminar is at 17.30 GMT with Dr Samuel Vermote: ‘A Sterile Syringe, a Book, and a Towel to Lie On: The History of Lesbian Motherhood and Donor Insemination in England throughout the 1970s and 1980s’ #histsex

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · Jan 13

NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE

A back and white photo of a massive oak tree that looks like it is screaming

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 14

* getting locked in the office by mistake and having to stay there all night

* missing a huge funding deadline by jotting down 21 Feb instead of 12 Feb

* "we couldn't find any results for your search 'book draft final'"

* redundancies, dept closures, job losses

* getting invited to parties

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 14

Deadline incoming for the SHS annual conference at the Black Country Living Museum...

Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · Jan 12

📢You have less than a week to make a paper or panel submission to our 2025 conference!

⏰Apply by 17 January!

socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

SHS Annual Conference 2025

Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…

socialhistory.org.uk

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · Jan 12

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 8

Doesn't it just - I wish I'd thought of it!

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 8

My favourite account over here so far. The mushrooms, they're always nice. Perfect content. 🍄

lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Jan 8

Here are some nice mushrooms

A dense colony of white and orange banded false turkey tail mushrooms grow on the side of a snow covered log

All photos by me

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 8

Well, fancy meeting you here! 😁 I finally got round to joining (& hopefully CHiPH will be hot on my heels, leaving the Bad Place...!)

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 7

Envious of whoever gets this job: what a great project

Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social · Dec 16

Come and work on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project about the history of ‘hurt feelings’ & the law with @katieebarclay.bsky.social Alice Krzanich and me! We’re looking for a historian of medicine (or similar) for a 4 yr postdoctoral research fellow position elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...

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Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social · Jan 7

*taps mic*

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