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Jonathan Reinarz

@reinarz.bsky.social
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Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.

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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looking forward to reading this book, which was delivered yesterday. I found Prichard one of the most interesting figures while researching Bristol’s medical history years ago.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Accidents during the black outs of WWII, a letter from Lucian Freud comments on “most people have scars either on their on their noses or foreheads from walking into posts.”
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Much Ado About Nothing at RSC in Stratford. Loads of actors making their RSC debut in this performance and clearly having fun doing so.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A visit to the Anaesthetists Heritage Centre to round off another marathon day. I’ll sleep as soundly as one of Morton’s patients tonight.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Royal College of Obs and Gynae today with a visit to Hilda Lloyd, their first woman President and Bham prof of surgery.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Royal College of Obs and Gynae today with a visit to Hilda Lloyd, their first woman President and Bham prof of surgery.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Breakthrough moments in the Museum of the Order of St John yesterday at part of the medical simulation project.
1980s cover of the journal of the St John Ambulance showing the use of Laerdal’s Resusci Anne doll. The room in which the St John Ambulance was founded in the 19th century in their London headquarters.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Investigating the dental phantom at the British Dental Association in London today
A dental phantom c.1960 used by dental students at the British Dental Association library on Wimpole St, London
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
So many songs about his 15-year old self I was starting to feel nervous being out on a school night.
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Did you know that many of our articles are available to view on open access? Over the next few weeks we'll be highlighting some articles from our archive which can be read entirely free of charge via our website: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ymd... #openaccess #historyjournal #publication
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Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
English Composition question in Brit. Optical Assoc. exam in 1939. I wish I could see the answers of students who wrote on “If I were a Dictator” question.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
At British Optical Association Museum in London today where you can see the full range of spectacles offered as part of the NHS in 1948
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Lucky I’m not in the quiet coach, as my book and the ad in this train carriage are striking up quite a conversation
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Medicine in multicultural Birmingham in 1970. Simple Urdu for dental students as published in the student medical magazine.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New taxis for Bham or just here for Easter? I know I’d sooner take one of these than an Uber.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congrats to Pieter on this interesting and relevant volume that has come out in the Clio Medica series I edit with Cathy McClive and Bogdan Iacob.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Bored my daughter on the way to the REP theatre in Brum last night by telling her all about Birmingham’s history as represented in this new painted egg.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Social Medicine emerged in the second half of the 20thC. In the 1970s medical school started adding community medicine to the revised curriculum. This interesting article by students in Bham published in 1970.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ad for Warwickshire County Dental Service in spring 1970. Luncheon allowances and car loan scheme.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
You can’t be more clear about it. They’ve showed their true colours.
Newspaper headline indicating that Musk and Trump are outraged by ruling of French court against Le Pen.
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Have you published a book in 2023/24 on a #histmed topic concerning Europe or Europe’s relationship with the wider world? Ask your publisher to send your book to the Book Committee for the EAHMH 2025 Book Award before May 1! We'll announce the winner at the Berlin conference. eahmh.org/prizes/
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Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
📣Midlands researchers 📣 Call for Papers for Housing, Homes and Households in the Midlands Deadline for abstracts 30 April👇
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My neighbours don’t deserve that tree. Full magnolia explosion already.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Getting to know more of the midlands via its less travelled roads this weekend. Pleased to discover Copper Beech brewery at the end of this ride.
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Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📣Registration is open for our workshop, 'Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future'! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential. ⏰ 2-3 July 2025 🏛️ University of Birmingham / online 👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ #histmed #histsex #medhums #sexualhealth #SRH #HIV
Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future
A multidisciplinary workshop
Join us in person or online
Room WG17, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Birmingham, 2-3 July 2025
The prevention, treatment and control of sexually transmissible infections, including HIV, has a complex history. It has been the catalyst for significant developments in medicine and public health. But it has also been stigmatised, occupying a grey area between quackery and reputable medicine. Sexual health embodied fears about social disorder, at times seen as a ‘racial poison’ and a threat to colonial, state and military authority. And it was used as an excuse for human experimentation, draconian legislation and the persecution of minoritised and marginalised communities.
Yet event with such a turbulent history, sexual health currently faces one of its greatest crises. Rates of syphilis are at their highest since 1948 and there are more cases of gonorrhoea than at any other point since records began. Barriers to PrEP uptake persist. While RSE has improved, significant shortcomings remain. The impact of mental health, poverty and domestic violence on sexual-health outcomes are not adequately addressed. Services decimated by underfunding are no longer accessible to many who need them. And a lack of culturally competent, inclusive provisions means that many service users feel alienated by the services that are available. All of this is exacerbating deep inequalities in health outcomes and wellbeing.
This multidisciplinary workshop is an opportunity for researchers and health professionals to explore the historical legacies and challenges facing sexual health today and in the future. It is supported by the UKRI project ‘Histories of Sexual Health in Britain’ and is CPD accredited by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians.
Scan the QR code to register. 
Registration is free but essential.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interesting trend as we enter a cashless economy. One for the future cultural historians. Tooth fairy might also have to find a way to go cashless. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects
Figures reveal 29% fall in operations in England to remove foreign bodies from children’s airways, noses and throats
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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Enjoyed a talk on #Birmingham pioneer, Dame Hilda Lloyd, by Prof Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social at The Exchange, UoB. She established obstetrical ‘Flying Squads’ in the city and in a small exhibition in the rear foyer you can see one of the flying squad cases on display plus a short film.
A person standing in front of presentation screen talking into microphone.A group of people seated facing a person talking with a microphone standing in front of two large screens
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I find myself sounding a lot like Danny Glover these days.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I often think of the time I saw a large ballroom at a Hyatt Regency on a trip abroad that had been booked for a very expensive event for offer holders of a British university. I’ve never attended something as well catered at any university.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Next Tuesday: Tom Haigh on the history of AI. If you want to join us online, a streaming link will be available on the day of the seminar.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Two articles about theft and chocolate next to each other in the online newspaper. That’s the sign of a good editor.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
From the New Yorker
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Volume 108 on Dealing with Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine now out in Brill’s Clio Medica series. brill.com/display/titl...
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Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine
"Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in and through the History of Medicine" published on 10 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Revelation. At Chancellors Building Edinburgh Medical School for tour of the medical simulation suite today. Free parking, coffees for under £2 and a bacon roll. Scotland is different, and in a good way.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
R.D. Laing on his first visit to an asylum from his 1985 autobiography. Typical and amusing iconoclastic story by a central figure in the anti-psychiatry movement.
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Elaine Mitchell @elaineamitchell.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Pounds and publication from @midlandhistory.bsky.social.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I really do not care who shot JFK, but I think we all need to know what happened to Stephen Lawrence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Stephen Lawrence killer’s ‘admission’ could offer breakthrough, police believe
Exclusive: David Norris may be asked to name other gang members after reportedly admitting his role in attack
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’m speaking about Hilda Lloyd at the Exchange, Birmingham on 26 March at 5:30pm. An attendance register from her student days, her honorary degree from Leeds Uni and a tour of Egypt are some of the items I’ll discuss.
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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We will be joining our @histparl.bsky.social and @georgianlords.bsky.social colleagues to speak about the resources our projects have to offer those interested in Midlands history on Thurs 3 April, 7-8 p.m. This online event is free to attend. Full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...
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The History of Parliament: Resources for Researchers
The History of Parliament Team will introduce their work and detail the Midland specific resources across the centuries.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lilian Lindsay was the first woman appointed Pres. of the British Dental Association and passionate about hist. of dentistry, so her 1946 Pres. Address bound to be full of history.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Dental work in a WW2 POW camp from Brit Dental Journal (1946) with drawing of bamboo dental chair by Lt Gimpson. Enjoy!
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Some great lines on addiction in Kaveh Akbar’s novel, Martyr! If his Portrait of the Alcoholic is anything like this, it should be ideal for a humanities course on drugs and alcohol.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The set of the Birmingham REP’s current production of Death of a Salesman. My A-level-studying companion says she enjoyed it, I thought the American accents were surprisingly good.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My attempt at a graphic novel on the right. Ideas by Lucas and colouring by Rowan two West School Primary students in Paisley
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Guess who said this in his autobiography? And if his country thinks other nations, including Canada, do not feel the same way about their countries, they will sow the seeds for long-term difficulties in foreign relations.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Working with Primary 6s in Paisley this week. Discussing remembrance in the run up of a red plaque ceremony at the school on 6 May to commemorate the service of two fallen firefighters.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Finished my day in London on Lupus Street in Pimlico, giving my third talk on War and Medicine to the PTI, an organisation that runs CPD courses for newly-qualified teachers. I’m glad Medicine through Time is still in the UK History curriculum.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Spent my weekend going through the records of the Casualties Union at Wellcome. The CU were formed in 1942 by Eric Claxton and perform as expert made-up simulated “casualties” often in collaboration with the Red Cross, Order of St John or many other organisations.
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Smell and surgery, and the latest chapter of Covid and anosmia www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery
Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients
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Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hold on…pizza in a basement in Washington? But, I thought…
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