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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone who is interested in Material Culture and the Medical Humanities should definitely come and join our new Collective! medhumsplatform.org/call-for-col... @annafranjam.bsky.social @harrietbarratt.bsky.social @drfijohnstone.bsky.social

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Call for collaborators – launching the Material Medical Humanities Collective | The Platform

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Applications are open for our (free) early career researcher leadership programme. We will provide 62 ECRs from humanities and social sciences with coaching, mentoring and peer networking. We can contribute to childcare costs. Apply by 28th October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career...

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British Academy Elevate Programme - Leadership Stream: key information

An intensive, CPD‑accredited leadership programme for Early Career Researchers delivered through training, mentoring and coaching.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As @caroladlam.bsky.social isn't on here much these days, I feel like I need to blow the trumpet about her brilliant graphic novel about the life of Eliza Raine (the first lover of Anne Lister, but also so much more than that), forthcoming with Virago! www.thebookseller.com/rights/graph...

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Graphic novel inspired by Anne Lister’s first ‘wife’ signed by Virago

Virago has acquired a graphic novel inspired by Anne Lister’s first “wife”, by award-winning author-illustrator Carol Adlam.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Less than a month to go (29 April, 5:30pm) until our annual Lightening Talks event for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar, showcasing new PhD student work. Join us in person or online at the IHR in London. It's free and open to the public. #Skystorians

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Lightning Talks

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thanks to @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social for this wonderful window display featuring Keeping Hold!

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎉 Announcing the launch of an agenda-setting collection of essays exploring how art and art-history can transform understandings of health, illness, care and medical knowledge. Edited by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire 🧵 @durham.ac.uk @languagesdurham.bsky.social

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Art and the Critical Medical Humanities new book - Durham University

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

jobs.london.ac.uk

Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid

The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I'm delighted to share details of the first of two workshops I'm hosting this year on The Senses and Medical Humanities. The first workshop will take place in Durham on 24 February. Spaces are limited, so reserve yours now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

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The Senses and Medical Humanities

A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities through short talks, creative activities, and networking.

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven.

This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife.

Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.

Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage
performers, eyewitnesses.

This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters?

We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to:
- making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures
- making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation
- performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory)
- materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects
- diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality
- occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists)
- affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope

Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Much needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC) And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.

Cover of a book
"Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley.
Sick jokes: Visual histories of humour, health and the body."

The cover image is a black-and-white photograph of a white man with short hair, a gold earring, stubble, glasses, and an oxygen tube. He makes eye contact with the viewer and his mouth is slightly open, perhaps in a smile. His hospital gown is pulled up to reveal both a Kaposi's lesion and a smiley face tattoo.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley

PART I – PATHOLOGIES AND POWER IN PRINT
Chapter 1 – ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture. The case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Callum Smith

Chapter 2 – Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture
Rebecca Whiteley

Chapter 3 – ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards
Georgia Haire

PART II – DYING LAUGHING: DEATH, DISFIGUREMENT, DISEASE, AND DISABILITY
Chapter 4 – Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour
Allison Morehead

Chapter 5 – Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique
Christine Slobogin

Chapter 6 – The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News
Jo Michael Rezes

Chapter 7 – Irony, assisted dying and The Disabled Avant-Garde
Laura Cowley

PART III – COMICAL HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
Chapter 8 – ‘Doctor, are you speaking in tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey
Jeffrey S. Reznick

Chapter 9 – Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s
Peder Clark

Chapter 10 – Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics
Soha Bayoumi

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Lovely to see _Art and the Critical Medical Humanities_ out in open access format!! Co-authored a chapter with my humor co-conspirators @katiesnow.bsky.social and @lauracowley.bsky.social - and so many other brilliant folks included in this volume!! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

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Art and the Critical Medical Humanities

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

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Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I have signed up and I can't wait!

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Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Join me online at 10am GMT this Friday for my talk: 'Straightening Childhood: The Le Vacher Machine and Maternal Regulation of the Body in Georgian England.' I’ll be exploring how mothers read, managed & reshaped children’s bodies through the corrective device featured below, and others like it 👇

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Still time to sign up for our online event *Object Stories in Health and Medicine* on Friday 5 December! We've got a fantastic programme with panels on Wearable Objects, Object Biographies, Representing the Body, Personal Papers and Domestic Health. One week today @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social

birmingham.ac.uk

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.

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birmingham.ac.uk

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!

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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

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Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4

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Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A few more tickets remain for the poetry reading at the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov 19, 1.30-3.30pm. We'll talk about the ways in which poets represented their experiences as patients and doctors throughout history.

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The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness

Eventbrite - Scottish Poetry Library presents The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness - Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Find event and ticket inf...

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Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...

jobs.ac.uk

Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick

Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR. Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners. 🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online 🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...

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IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We will return on 18th. November with Emma Marshall, who will present 'Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750'. Further details can be found through the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

history.ac.uk

Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist

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Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’ll be speaking about the very object featured below - the Le Vacher machine - and how mothers in Georgian England used devices like it to 'straighten' children’s bodies. #HistMed #MaterialCulture #MedicalHumanities #18thCentury

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings

Painting of a white woman with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a red dress, viewers from behind.
She is in a room with pale yellow walls and a chequerboard floor, her hand is raised towards the window in front of her, through which a tree lined street of terraced houses can be seen.
On the wall to her right is an oval portrait of a woman with an angry expression. The perspectives in the painting jar with each other and it creates an atmosphere of strangeness and vertiginousness

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

#HistMed #HistSTM #DisHist and #MatCult folks - this online event's made for you 🗃️👇

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Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Interrupting the madness of reality to share some exciting news: the first Centre for Mad Culture in the UK will be launched in Edinburgh on 17 October! Below I have listed all the other activities planned by the Centre (including my own poetry workshop). Book your free tickets and see you there!

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Mad Pride, Mad Perspectives: Centre for Mad Culture UK launch night

Be part of the launch of Centre for Mad Culture UK — a night of bold art, powerful voices, and mad cabaret.

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Booking is now live for our exciting online workshop Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900! See the full programme and grab a ticket here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

birmingham.ac.uk

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year. It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!

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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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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!! My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD

Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m

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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Richard outlines the paper here: www.tiktok.com/@long18thcen...

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Join Dr Richard Ansell (Birkbeck) for a free online seminar. 5:30-7:30pm London time on Wed. Oct 8 via zoom. “Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour”. From valets to maids, dis...

TikTok video by Long 18th Century Seminar IHR

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

birmingham.ac.uk

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

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