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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 7d

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!

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S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD

Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 7d

Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Richard outlines the paper here:
www.tiktok.com/@long18thcen...

Join Dr Richard Ansell (Birkbeck) for a free online seminar. 5:30-7:30pm London time on Wed. Oct 8 via zoom. “Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour”. From valets to maids, dis...

TikTok video by Long 18th Century Seminar IHR

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 9d

Our call for papers deadline is a week today! #medhums #histmed #histpsych

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 12d

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*.

We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to read this @miladaskalova.bsky.social #histpsych

Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16d

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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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 14d

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14d

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

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First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.

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University of Reading Art Collection @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social · 20d

⭐ Our Curator of Art Collections has contributed three new biographies on women artists for this month's #ODNB update.

Read her Introduction and new entries in the link below! 👇

#ODNB #WomenInArt

Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · 20d

🌟 This month’s ODNB update celebrates women artists in Britain across 3 centuries!

Discover 9 new biographies, including Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh.

Explore their stories ➡️ oxford.ly/4mnkfVG

#ODNB #WomenInArt

Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh

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Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social · 22d

And if that's not enough for you, then later the same day,
2) 'Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health' roundtable on 2 new books: Tillmann Taape's 'Crafting Medicine' & Jack Hartnell's 'Wound Man' (free, online CHSTM #histmed working group, also meeting 10 Oct & 14 Nov): www.chstm.org/group/object...

Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks for sharing Helen!

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Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social · 22d

Forthcoming events on objects in the history of healthcare #HistMed:
1) 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900' @unibirmingham.bsky.social (5 Dec, free, online. CFP deadline 6 Oct. Organised by @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social): www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 22d

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.

Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

An advertising banner for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London. The banner includes an image of the front cover of the book (a blue map on a pink background) and a blurb from the historian Julia Laite, which describes Songs of Seven Dials as 'a poetic exploration of London's most iconic neighbourhoods'.

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 23d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 23d

Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 25d

For the weekend crowd: CFP for online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*, deadline for abstracts Monday 6 October 💫

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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www.birmingham.ac.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29d

***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 26d

Please do Beatriz! We'd love to hear from you.

Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks so much Rebecca!

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 26d

💫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

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Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social · 29d

Hey all! Please request Remembeting Anne Beach for your libraries & consider it for your courses. Also I’m happy to chat about this 18th century scandal to any interested parties! #histmed #britishhistory #MicroHistory #research #18thcentury

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Remembering Anne Beach - University of Toronto Press

Love, Scandal, and Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Britain

utppublishing.com

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Mary Hamilton and her networks: Gender, sociability, manuscript. Important (we would think so, wouldn't we?) special issue of JECS, now in copy-editing. Intro + 4 research papers by the team (see www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/further-read...) + 5 outside contributions. #18thC #langsky

Reconstruction of Mary Hamilton's social network Dec 1782 – July 1785. See https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/networks/

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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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