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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Peter Eveleigh, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the democratisation of private flight this morning. Also in the picture: thesis supervisor Simone Turchetti and examiners Robert Naylor and Alan D. Meyer.

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 1d

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM

CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025

Dr Alan D. Meyer Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 7d

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025

The Future of the Autism Concept Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder: next Tuesday!

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM

CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025

Dr Alan D. Meyer Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

And again I've got a @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague who has published on it: Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics.
doi.org/10.1038/s422...

Screenshot of Dr Sumner's Comment piece.

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

We are still waiting for titles and abstracts for the remaining two talks. Watch this space.

www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/connect/semi...

Seminars | Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine | The University of Manchester

www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

Please follow our @manchstm.bsky.social PhD students, @chstmphds.bsky.social, ‪for updates on the excellent lunchtime-work-in-progress online seminar series they host.

chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 16d

The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013

This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...

journals.sagepub.com

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

Or read one of Dr Evans' journal articles on the issue - you can access a list of publications through this link.

research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/b...

Bonnie Evans

research.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15d

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

On 11 November, jointly with the colleagues in East Asian Studies, we are welcoming Dr Lewis Bremner (Cambridge) for a talk on The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 11 November 2025

Dr Lewis Bremner The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025

Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 15d

The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM

CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025

Dr Alan D. Meyer Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social · 16d

The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum

Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great presentation by @manchstm.bsky.social’s own Krittapak Ngamvaseenont on psychiatrists and psychologists shaping the modern Thai mind in the mid 20th century. #eahmh25

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Reminder: we are welcoming the European Society for the History of Science to Manchester next month, for their Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings from 9 to 12 September 2025.

eshs.org/2025/07/11/e...

ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings, 9-12 September 2025 – European Society for the History of Science

eshs.org

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.

Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene

Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester. Call for Papers

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 5

@manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century.
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century.
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Jul 25

New article by CHSTM PhD and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Leah De Quattro:

De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538

www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...

Frontiers | Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work

Distressing and harmful birth experiences are the norm even in well-resourced countries, and conventional antenatal education struggles to adequately prepare...

www.frontiersin.org

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Jul 23

Brandy will be in Manchester on 21 Oct, hosted by @manchstm.bsky.social and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at @manchester.ac.uk. Watch this space (and blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/) for details.

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Jul 22

Hello to my #UK friends! My book THE INTERMEDIARIES is out in the UK now and I’ll be there in Oct for a tour—check out this podcast on Neil Denny’s LITTLE ATOMS RADIO!
#transgender #transrights

shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries | Little Atoms

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Jul 21

Great to have you here!

塩野麻子 SHIONO, Asako @asanoshioko.bsky.social · Jul 10

I'm spending July and August in Manchester as a visiting scholar at Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. Grateful for the opportunity to pursue my research here.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Jul 14

Looking forward to presenting my research on breast cancer and breastfeeding at this event in September!

MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Jul 14

We're looking forward to hosting the Early Career Network Meeting and the In-Between Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) in Manchester in September.

eshs.org/2025/07/11/e...

#histsci #histstm

ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings, 9-12 September 2025 – European Society for the History of Science

eshs.org

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fantastic news! Congratulations to Charlotte!!

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Jul 21

Drumroll please🥁🥁
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
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#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social

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