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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 18h

Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DMU Politics & IR is proud to contribute to the Institute of Global Challenges and Cultures’ 2026–27 Migration, Integration and Conflict research seminar series. A great line-up of speakers and topics, beginning with Andreas Bieler in a couple of weeks! @dmuhistory.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Call For Papers: @forarthistory.org.uk annual conference 2027 - along with Holly O’Farrell (IADT) we are co-convening a session on photo-albums and colonialism and welcome submissions from all stages of researchers; follow link for guidelines below; forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...

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87. The Album as Archive – photography, materiality and colonialism. - For Art History

This session invites papers that explore photographic albums as valuable records of visual expressions of the cultural politics of colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Produced a...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We always promote (as we should!) research-led teaching but tbh I find teaching-led research even more enjoyable. I love working through ideas because I'm teaching something related, or making connections because of something I had to teach

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an anthropological archaeologists i’m just dying to find out what Suella thinks makes ‘English’ an ‘ethnicity’ that she doesn’t belong to (dya think it is whiteness????)

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please join us on 29 October for the 2nd Biennial Pickstone Lecture. Our speaker will be Prof Roberta Bivins (Warwick) on A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...

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Pickstone Lecture 2026

Professor Roberta Bivins A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation 29 October 2026

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a) 'it is no bad thing' if universities close ❌ - think about who they employ and what they offer local area and people. b) Cap on fees should go ❌ - wrong cap: cap on numbers at each institution would help. c) Cost of student loans is often borne by public money ✅ - so get rid of fees altogether!

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honestly the lengths to which this country will go just to keep their classism and xenophobia is astonishing. Britain will shoot itself in the foot before it allows poor kids to succeed

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/09/2026

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣New issue now available online 📣 10 articles (7 open access) & 15 book reviews. Article topics include: asylums, T.B., death data, AIDS policy, & public hospitals with research exploring Britain, Denmark, Spain, Turkey and the Mediterranean covering 15-17th, 19th & 20th centuries!

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Volume 39 Issue 3 | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very excited to attend the conference "Photographs within and without communities" organized by @phrc-dmu.bsky.social PhD students! @javedsultan.bsky.social ltan.bsky.social it's going to be a good one! 📸 #photohist

Projected screen of the Arrival and Registration slide for the conference Photographs within and without their communities, with a QR code to the programme

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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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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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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hiring! 🧠❤️🤔If you’re a philosopher working in ethics/ x-phi/ empirically informed moral philosophy / moral psychology / applied ethics, consider applying for a 2.5 year research postdoc with me in my lab at Oxford. Deadline noon 16th Oct. Details 👉 philjobs.org/job/show/32101 Hit me up with q’s!

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Shameless Fiona Gallagher

ALT: Shameless Fiona Gallagher

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you work with historic medical images? Join the launch of the new Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, a new resource for researchers, GLAM professionals, and anyone thinking about the challenges of working with historical medical photography

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

Obviously the toolkit will be available then! Join us to discuss the toolkit, how to use it, and what's next for The Ethics of Medical Photography Network!

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

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come join our amazing @ijhs.bsky.social Editor team! Looking for sport historians who work on Europe. Email me with any ❓about the role. Deadline October 20 #skystorians #sporthistory 🗃️

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.

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Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last week was World Suicide Prevention Day. I saw lots of well meaning posts elsewhere on social media, about how ‘asking someone if they are okay’, or ‘sending them a song because it reminded you of them’, is suicide prevention. But it’s really not and it’s dangerous to pretend it is

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think the essential point here is right: people who have lost communities don’t know why they’re doing the job anymore

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every single year I forget that the most time consuming part of preparing lectures is doing the power point. Im teaching all new new modules for the second time in a row so I can't even use old material...le sigh

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/09/2026

Each summer the Society hosts a number of funding calls to support historians. Today, we're pleased to announce the 30 recipients of these recent programmes bit.ly/4yoVYor Funding offers support for MA & PhD students, as well as early and later career historians, in and beyond HE #Skystorians 1/2

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Recent RHS Grant and Fellowship Recipients: summer 2026 round of awards - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce the 30 recipients for the following six funding programmes hosted by the Society. Calls for these programmes were held over the summer for proj...

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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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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyone working in the sector already knows, but still good to see it in black & white. Professional services *people*--not just interchangeable hubs of administration--are essential to a good university. Their institutional knowledge has been consistently undervalued & their loss is catastrophic.

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Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Such a privilege to be invited to present research into early women professional photographers of Bath on Saturday 12th September at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social among a fantastic line up of speakers. www.brlsi.org/early-britis...

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Early British Photography and its Contemporary Legacy – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

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dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To coincide with its global release, our Dr Dave Dee will be formally launching his new @academic.oup.com book ('Migrants, Minorities, and the History of British Boxing') this October at @dmu.ac.uk as part of their @blackhistorymonth.org.uk programme. Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Even if you're not applying I'd be interested if anyone else can access the form - if you have a flexigrant account the direct link to the form is here: britishacademy.flexigrant.com/startapplica... 🗃️

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

7 years later I find myself in the same place needing a break. I was looking at boring pictures of buildings and suddenly there was a picture of children in costume. A little party at the hospital beatrizpichel.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/c...

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Crying in the archives

The first time I did research on medical photography was at the Val de Grâce museum in Paris. I was just starting my PhD and I was interested in First World War medical photographs of facial injuri…

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm on the Eurostar on my way to Paris for 3 days of archive research and I can't wait to get there! I'm going to visit the Institut Pasteur, the Musée de l'AP-HP and the Sorbonne archives. I haven't been to any of them before so I'm even more excited! And then obviously, it's Paris 😍

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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

⏰ Final week to submit your proposal for “Photographic Communities: How People Collaborate with Images”, a photo-historical seminar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, taking place March 15–19, 2027. ⏳Deadline: August 31, 2026. 🔗More info & application: www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

(Photo by Massimo Piersanti of a group of several Italian participants around Achille Bonito Oliva at the 7th Paris Biennale, 1971, credit: Rome, MAXXI, Fondo Incontri Internazionali d’Arte)

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Q for #histSTM colleagues: I'm out of the loop - is anyone *currently* doing good stuff with Kuhn/Paradigms as a genuinely useful model for exploring *specific* (ideally post-1800) case studies of changing scientific theories? Not just oblig ref but as explicit way to structure story/explanation?

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Over the moon that the special issue of Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social I co-edited with Sam Goodman on "Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism" is finally out in the world. Endless gratitude to @fcondrau.bsky.social. All article links below: academic.oup.com/shm/issue

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Issues | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm almost at the end of this fellowship and I can't thank the Leverhulme enough for funding my research leave for a whole academic year! Having the time and space to think, read and write has been transformative. What a luxury.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Worth reposting for the am crowd, especially for its pragmatic advice on how to support yourself or a colleague in a pile-on. So, essential reading for (among others) academic staff, deans, PVCs and VCs to have on hand.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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sam @samthielman.com · 15/08/2026

I’m less curious about how Jason Arday got his appointment at Cambridge than I am about how Noah Carl, who published in Nazi pseudoscience journal Mankind Quartetly, got his, and how Nate Cofnas, also fired for being a race science crank, got his.

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Arne Langleite @arnet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s the last chance to see my most recent curatorial effort arbeidsfoto/fotoarbeid at Teknisk Museum in Oslo. A traveling variant at Porselensmuseet in Porsgrunn also finishes this weekend. In the exhibition we try to show the work that photographs do, in advertising, propaganda and instruction.

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