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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 8d

Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖

Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 9d

Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 13d

Wheeee! Congratulations!

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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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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · 27d

Ugh, was thinking of you yesterday Claire - would be nice to catch up soon! Furious on your behalf.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 27d

📜 #histmed job opportunity in London

The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Old Operating Theatre Museum is looking for a Marketing Officer and a Retail Officer.

If you’re creative and passionate about medical history, we’d love to hear from you!

More details here: oldoperatingtheatre.com/vacancies/

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28d

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited to be giving a Thackray Insights lecture on February 7 with the wonderful @victoriabates.bsky.social! Our event is titled 'The Sick Sense', and will centre on the significance of the senses and colour in experiences of illness and recovery.

thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...

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Rocío Gomez @historyrocio.bsky.social · Sep 3

It goes without saying: if you work on literature or other environmental humanities, you're welcome to join us. We have room for 1-2 more. // Por supuesto, invitamos a nuestrxs colegas en literatura y en humanidades del medio ambiente.

Rocío Gomez @historyrocio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hi! We're putting a panel together for LASA 2026 on minerals and metals in Latin American history. So, if you do mining history, environmental history, riparian/waterway history, or history of science, get in contact!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's in the wild! Thanks @historicalmeredith.bsky.social for bringing it to Berlin.

Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very excited to see a hard copy of @victoriabates.bsky.social new book ‘Feeling Blue’ on the MUP stand at #eahmh25 - and in great company too 🤩

Table with books propped upright on medical history themes.

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great to be at European Association for the History of Medicine #EAHMH2025 in Berlin this week. Have been busy & terrible at sharing on here, but having a lovely time! First #histmed conference since 2019 as I've been going to health/design stuff instead, and it's so nice to reconnect with people.

Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · Aug 28

@victoriabates.bsky.social and @drhick.bsky.social start the panel pleading for a "more-than-human" approach bringing environmental and medical histories together

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks! The film is so good isn't it? I can't take much credit.

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you have 2 minutes, please watch this lovely video by @reubenarmstrong.bsky.social based on the book 'Feeling Blue: Colour and the modern British hospital', we released the film today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5L2... (free link to the book in the post below)

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Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social · Aug 19

Despite the stereotypes, Bristol Uni is not just for the well-off. The English Dept does great outreach work and, this part-time, evening class, whole-ass degree, should be treated as the jewel in their crown (to upend a metaphorical hierarchy!)
Please sign the letter.

Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

forms.gle

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Aug 19

🥳 The latest book in SSHM’s Social Histories of Medicine series
Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
#histmed

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙

The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.

Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.

#histmed

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Claire :)

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks!

Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you! It feels as though I've been writing it forever and so slowly, just relieved to have it published...

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Siân 😍!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Richard, hope you and Coreen are doing well!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ha ha I thought of you when I saw this review!!

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've completely lost the dates - can you remind me? I'll put it in the diary!

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙

The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.

Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.

#histmed

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Rachel!

Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Claire :) Hope to catch up soon - it doesn't look as though you'll be in Berlin?

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