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Elsa Richardson

@ecrichardson.bsky.social
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Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).

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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Facilitating a conversation between some brilliant thinkers @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on Thursday around the material culture of childbirth. Expect scrolls, pools and talismanic objects!
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Delighted to welcome Naomi Samake-Bäckert to share her research into Black woman's activism in the 1970s around the practice of state-mandated virginity testing at Heathrow with the @cshhh.bsky.social on Tuesday the 10th of March 4-5.30 pm in the Business School Cathedral Wing Room 408.
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Looking forward to hosting Tom White next week for a co-hosted seminar with the Scottish Oral History Centre, Tuesday 3rd of March 4-5.30pm Graham Hills Building Room 222. Everyone welcome!
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social #online Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time) The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com #histmed
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Wellcome-funded Conference Series
Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN will run a three-part series of events. Two fo these will be in-per…
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Next CSHHH seminar on February 3rd in Strathclyde Business School CW408 4-5.30pm with Dr Francesca Lewis speaking on the fascinating history of Borderline Personality Disorder. All welcome!
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our first seminar of 2026 will take placeThursday 22nd of Jan 4-5.30 pm @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the CW406a where we will be joined by Dr Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen on 'Living with risk assessments. How direct-to-consumer genetic testing changes narratives of illness and health'. Come!
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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Join us in Leeds!
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Come along to the last @cshhh.bsky.social seminar of 2025! Saved the best to last, come hear @jdnott.bsky.social of @biomedselfsoc.bsky.social on the East African Medical Survey, mathematics, and modernism. 26th November, 4pm-5.30pm, Teaching & Learning Building 325, Strathclyde. Wine /crips
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CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
One last reminder and then I promise I will stop but if you are anywhere near Glasgow on Wednesday do please come celebrate 20 years of the @cshhh.bsky.social with us! Talks from the fantastic Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social, drinks and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social's best snacks!
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Please join us @unistrathclyde.bsky.social on 29th of October for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary lectures. We will be joined by two giants in the history of health and medicine: @joannabourke.bsky.social and Professor Tracey Loughran. The event is free register here tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Historians! Anyone have any must reads on the history vaccination and/or anti-vaccination movements? Thanks for wisdom in advance
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Excited to be joining @ruairirobertson.bsky.social, @jenniepedley.bsky.social, Merrilees Roberts, Joanna Penso and Rhodri Hayward for an evening of gut based malarky. Thursday 12 June, free to attend, likely be refreshments of some kind, do come! @c19qmul.bsky.social @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Read the latest blog by @katemcal993.bsky.social co-organiser with @claireljones.bsky.social of a workshop held in January, where participants critiqued the concept of ‘the leaky body’. Supported by AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship and SSHM conference funding. #histmed
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The Leaky Body: A New Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences?
by Dr Kate McAllister, University of Kent On 9-10 January 2025, twenty-eight participants gathered at the University of Kent in Canterbury to attend a workshop titled ‘The Leaky Body: A New Turn in…
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Next seminar, thanks @pederclark.bsky.social for organising!
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Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thank you very much, @ecrichardson.bsky.social @cshhh.bsky.social ! I look forward to discussing with you tomorrow!
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Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
First post on bsky and first @cshhh.bsky.social seminar @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Next Tuesday we will be joined by Nikolaos Papadogiannis who will present on 'Translating interviews with Greek transgender HIV/AIDS activists', 4-5.30pm in the Teaching and Learning Building 565. All welcome!
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