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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.
Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library
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Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World

Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here Forthcoming

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 3d

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

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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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 6d

Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss...

#histmed #histSTM

AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene

Notes from the trash-heap of medical history focuses on everyday technologies of health and medicine in the 20th century.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 6d

Check out the calls for papers on our website with abstract deadlines throughout the month. sshm.org/portfolio/up...

History of Medicine CFPs

If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health: Call for Papers (A one day wor…

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 14d

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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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

Call for papers for the Womens HistoryNetwork Seminar Series. Deadline is the 10th November, email submissions to [email protected]

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

The deadline is today! Get those applications in asap #histmed

Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 8d

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding

The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 8d

Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
sshm.org/conference-f...

Conference Funding

The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…

sshm.org

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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

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 9d

📢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…

sshm.org

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 13d

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13d

From the current issue “A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis”

by Henrietta Harrison (‪@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social‬/‪@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis*

Abstract. Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors w

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 15d

Another important lecture in this series: @fancynahyan.bsky.social talking on "In Ibn al-Nafis' Shadow
Transformations in Medical Theory in Islamic Societies (1200-1520)," Oct. 7: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... #histmed #MedievalMedicine #MedievalSky

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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 15d

Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...

A promotional flyer for History of Medicine Week Events, October 6-10th. The flyer has a light gray background with dark text and red highlighting for emphasis. It displays five event boxes:
Monday, 11 ET/12 CT: "Communicating Beyond the Academy: Historians, the Media, and the Public" with a bonus event at 9 ET/10 CT titled "Faith, Hope, and Science in the Time of AIDS - A Talk by Dr. Catherine Burns" hosted by the University of Nebraska.
Tuesday: "Perspectives on Science" podcast release about "Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond" with hashtag #histdrugregs, plus a bonus at 3 ET/2 CT called "Surviving the Graduate Degree."
Wednesday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Teaching as the University Burns: Practical Tips" with a note to check AAHM email for the link.
Thursday, 1 ET/2 CT: "Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health."
Friday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Trans & Intersex Health From Past to Future" with a note to check AAHM email for the link.
At the bottom, italicized text states "Click on titles for registration links. For details and updates visit the website." The website URL www.histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week/ appears at the bottom.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome).
'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

📅Monday 6 October [Online]
🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time)
Register via the link on the webpage
#histmed #histSTM

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…

sshm.org

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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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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

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social · 19d

WG1 Seminar resumes next Fri 26 Sep at 1pm CET with Prof Enrique Perdiguero who will speak on Fighting Cancer in Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A First Approach. #skystorians #medhums #histmed #eurohisthealth #CA22159

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 23d

@manchstm.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @cshhh.bsky.social @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
Please share with networks

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 23d

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

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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CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 23d

Final Reminder

𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄
𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝟏𝟑𝟓𝟎-𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟎)

Final day for in-person registration: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confe...

#CSMBR #MedicalEducation #Europe

Medical Education in Europe (1350-1750) - CSMBR

This conference explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe within established and informal networks.

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COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social · Sep 8

#CallForPapers #CFP The Fight against Tuberculosis. Policies, Exchanges, & Representations in Europe &its Colonies, 1850s-1970s

Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025
Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth

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COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interested COST Action 22159 members may contact Action Chair Barry Doyle with regard to a panel submission for the European Association for Urban History - closing date 22 October 2025 - check your email for details #CA22159 #COSTAction #Skystorians #HistMed #HistArchitecture #HistHealth

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 29d

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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