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Dr Juliet Roberts
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Former theatre sister. OU history graduate. MA and PhD from C2DH University of Luxembourg. Visual culture of facial trauma in WWI. The medical portrait. History of medicine/surgery. Social history.
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.

Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
medhumsplatform.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors (pretty please) & include #GirlsOwnCC
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Enjoy this perplexing illustration for the the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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 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…
sshm.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The day job got me thinking about the history of prisons, especially during the Great War. So I thought I’d do some secondary reading
(which also means I’m putting off finishing my 2 upcoming papers)
September 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A quick search throws up a few bits and pieces on prisons and prisoners during the First World War, but not much, if anyone has any suggestions I’d be grateful.
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It’s Birmingham Heritage Week #BHW2025!
Find out more about Birmingham Municipal Bank, a unique council run bank where ‘pennies were welcome’ and its place as ‘the people’s bank’

🗓️Weds 17 Sept 6:00-7:30pm at
The Exchange (former Head Office of the bank built in 1933)
Free but booking recommended
Thrift Radiates Happiness -
Join us for a city wide celebration of Birmingham’s heritage! Over 100 events and activities to enjoy. #BHeritageWeek.
birminghamheritageweek.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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💫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
September 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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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.
Old Ladybird books updated.

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

Artists: John Berry
Martin Aitchison
September 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Join us in Berlin on the 29th!
If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts
August 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In remembrance on the anniversary of the atomic bombing 80 years ago, a picture of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park, which I visited in 2013. A very sobering experience indeed, but there is a marvellous upbeat atmosphere in the surrounding city. Friendliness everywhere.
August 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A command bunker on the West Wall/Siegfried Line today. Fascinating trip around some #WWII landmarks in #Luxembourg
August 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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There are a few tickets left for my talk & book signing at NAM on 20 September. This is my unofficial book launch as I won’t be having a proper do due to other commitments so would be great to see all my pals there to enjoy a fab line up of speakers and the new exhibition!
Burma Day
Join us for a special day of talks and activities to celebrate the opening of our exhibition, ‘Beyond Burma’, and to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
www.nam.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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This is *definitely* worth reading. New article in Medical History, 'Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain' (downloadable OA version via the link 👇).

#HistSTM #DisHist #Eugenics #ReproHist
There are a few findings in this article that I think will be of broad interest. First, it shows that eugenic sterilisation did happen in 1930s Britain, despite the failure of the eugenics society to secure legislation for it.
New article. 'Defective data: statistics, disability, and eugenic sterilisation in interwar Britain' - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
July 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm
July 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🦠 What if the smallest organisms could solve one of our biggest pollution problems?

At @uni.lu, Prof. Anupam Sengupta and his team are using microbes to replace harmful #microplastic additives, with sustainable, custom-made biominerals.

The future? Cleaner, greener… and microbially engineered.
Microbes offer a green solution to the microplastic challenge
In the fight against microplastic pollution, scientists are leveraging the power of microbes to create sustainable alternatives to harmful microplastic
www.uni.lu
July 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History
We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History, you will be required to make a significant contributio...
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’

@ihr.bsky.social

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Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
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June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people!
Weds 25 June
10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online
#skystorians
UKDHHH 2025 Connecting + Sharing Event
Join us at the UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing event to hear more about those working with, or interested in, disability histories.
www.eventbrite.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM