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Islay Shelbourne

@islayshelbourne.bsky.social
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Historian. Currently researching Californian understandings of the 1918-19 Flu. Strolling in St Andrews and finding my future in the past.

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Islay Shelbourne @islayshelbourne.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Come along next Tuesday to hear all about Californian health myths and their impact on perceptions of TB and the 1918-19 Flu. I'm excited to share my findings and delve into all the details that didn't fit into my recently submitted PhD thesis, reincarnating zephrys and mammoth oranges included!
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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'm delighted that @royalhistsoc.org has published our roundtable article on 'The Future of (Environmental) History'. This came out of a workshop in April 2023 with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social I've summarised our paper (link to OA article) in a blog 👇 blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...
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Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History | Historical Transactions
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine! Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth. Pub date: April 21, 2026!
The spine and cover of a book. The spine (left) has four images of people: Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis, separated by colored lines. With the title and author in white. The cover includes the title in white (The Westerners: Myth-Making and Belonging on the American Frontier) above and the author name (Megan Kate Nelson) below. The image is in mossy greens, with mountains in the background and a river or lake in the foreground, with a group of women navigating it on a raft.
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Islay Shelbourne @islayshelbourne.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Inaugural St Andrews Medical Humanities Network Symposium was a fascinating event to attend and was just as interesting to write about for this review!
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Islay Shelbourne @islayshelbourne.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey Bluesky! My name is Islay and I am a final year Environmental History PhD Candidate @standrewshist.bsky.social where my research explores understandings of contagion in Southern California during the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic.
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