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

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious and disabling long-term conditions characterised by uncertainty surrounding their aetiology, diagnosis and treatment. Peop...

Visiting Scholar: Brandy Schillace, 11–24 May 2026 Coming Out as Disabled. 18 May, 1-2pm How typical is typical? 18 May, 4-5:30pm

Drawing on the ERC-funded research project NEWORLDatA, Simone Turchetti explains why EU science dip

Abstract. The Gibson microscope slide collection was donated to the Medical History Museum in Manchester (later the Museum of Medicine and Health) in 1977

Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.

Abstract The International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957–1958) pioneered worldwide collaborative research by uniting sixty-seven national committees in a data-gathering exercise across sixteen subdiscip...

Join us for Plants, the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.

We are pleased to announce our first stakeholder workshop for the Wellcome Trust funded project Nigeria in the Antimicrobial Eras on 24 March 2026.

We are pleased to announce the first CHSTM PhD Workshop on the history of ‘psy’ disciplines on 12 March 2026.

Abstract Between 1955 and 1968, a group of deaf volunteers participated in a range of human experiments for the US space program. Overseen by Dr. Ashton Graybiel, these tests sought to provide a bette...

Join us for an evening panel discussion with local women in research, facilitated by Professor Rachel Cowen from University of Manchester.

Join us for an evening panel discussion with local women in research, facilitated by Professor Rachel Cowen from University of Manchester.

Prof Mary Augusta Bazelton Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao

Dr Sarah Qidway Aligarh’s Scientific Society (est. 1864)

Dr Siobhán Hearne Soviet Healthcare Diplomacy in the Global South

Abstract. This article examines resistance from below to compulsory masking in modern China, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Initially marginalised and stigma

Prof Matthew Cobb The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

Prof Matthew Cobb The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science

Dr Angela Cassidy From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria