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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Chaired a great panel at #SSHM2026 on Global Health and Documentation. @alexandra-ward.bsky.social and silences in ship voyage health reports @jdnott.bsky.social explored the East African Medical Survey And Yue Cui - documented but untreated medical exclusion in colonial Manchuria #histmed

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Great mentoring session with the SSHM EC team at #SSHM2026 postgraduate and EC workshop.Thank you to Yuliya Hilevych @beapichel.bsky.social @ecrichardson.bsky.social @hpsvanessa.bsky.social Organised by @meggraham9.bsky.social & @alexandra-ward.bsky.social (Leeds organising team) #histmed

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Delighted to have co-organised the ‘Routes and Roots’ PGR Workshop yesterday with Amy, Toby & Joseph. Thanks to everyone who travelled to Sheffield and shared such wide-ranging and important work. Grateful to WRoCAH for funding, and to Dr Michael Bennett for his support and keynote.

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨 Final week! Call for Papers closes next Friday, 20th Feb.

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Excited to share the CfP for an event I’m co-organising: “Routes and Roots: Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Abolition, and their Legacies” — a PGR workshop at the University of Sheffield (keynote: Dr Michael Bennett) CfP deadline: Friday 20th February 👉 Apply here: forms.gle/DVR9uUSnbqGE... Please share!

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Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds! Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to sshm2026leeds@leeds.ac.uk More details at: sshm.org/sshm-2026-in... @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historynerdess.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #histmed

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UK-St Helena Heritage Trust @ukshheritage.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free webinar with author Colin Fox. bit.ly/StH0312

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thank you to the Friends of St Helena for inviting me to speak at their annual meeting where I discussed my PhD research, my recent trip to the island, and the family history I undertook while there. Also delighted to have been published in FoSH's journal, the Wirebird!

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Reminder! Call for Papers for the School of History PGR Seminar closes next week (Monday 20th October). Apply here: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd #History #PGR #CfP

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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/

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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…

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Call for Papers! Applications to present at the University of Leeds' School of History Postgraduate Research Seminar for the 2025-26 year are now open. If you are a postgraduate with work-in-progress on any time period or aspect of historical study, please do apply: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Happy to share that my review of Mary Hicks' 'Captive Cosmopolitans; Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery' book has been published on H-Net, you can read here! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Looking forward to presenting a paper at the 'Voices of the Marginalised' conference in 2 weeks, based on some of my PhD research on 'liberated African' migration www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

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Announcing Conference on Voices of the Marginalised in History 7-8 July 2025 | UON

We’re pleased to announce the programme for the Voices of the Marginalised in History conference at the University of Northampton, Waterside campus,...

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Home for the next month! So excited to be working with the Museum, National Trust and schools here on St Helena alongside my PhD research

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Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Thank you to Dulwich College History Society for inviting me to speak on my research on Friday! It was great to meet some future historians & reflect on lots of interesting questions they had.

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