JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely!
CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
🎧 #Wissenschaftsgeschichte auf die Ohren: Heute startet der neue Leopoldina-Podcast "1652" – benannt nach dem Gründungsjahr der Akademie. Es geht um Schätze aus mehr als 370 Jahren Wissenschaftsgeschichte – zu finden im Archiv und der Bibliothek der Leopoldina.
Looking forward to giving this paper virtually at the Bill Brock memorial conference being held in Oxford tomorrow. #HSTM #STS #blackstudies #HPS
@africanarchives.bsky.social
@bho.bsky.social
@global-ih.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social
@euchems-histchem.bsky.social
Just in case you missed it!
April isssue of The Gazette is now available to download with news of #histmed events and #SSHM2026 plus links to our latest publications
sshm.org/wp-content/u...
Some of the archives we'll be using for this strand of the project include...
📜Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social
📜Warwick Modern Records Centre @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
...plus oral history interviews 🗣️🎙️
The image displays a variety of book covers related to nursing and care homes. A banner reads "Care home subject guide" with a subtitle "Explore key resources, books, journals and more."
We have over 50 subject guides linking out to key resources, books and journals - all curated with the support of topic experts.
Have a look at our Care home subject guide: www.rcn.org.uk/library/Subject-Guides/c...
Thinking about submitting to the BSHS Singer Prize?
The prize recognises an outstanding essay based on original research in the history of science, technology, or medicine.
Open to postgraduate researchers and recent PhDs (within 5 years).
Learn more:
@smh-historians.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social @vahs.bsky.social @societyarmy.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social
#histmed #nursinghist
Opportunity | Become our new Policy Officer 👤
We're looking for a part-time policy officer (22.5 hours per week) to play a leading role in developing our policy and campaigns work.
Scroll/tap to find out more 👇
Wonderful new open access book on Hildegard of Bingen by Minji Lee! #medievalsky #HistSTM
nursingclio.org/2026/03/18/r...
Check out @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social
YouTube channel with recordings of their lecture series
For example, January’s lecture by @monicamedhist.bsky.social 👇
#histmed @eahmh.bsky.social
youtu.be/hHErGu2nRzs
New Comment:
"I am researching book on the Saugeen Ojibway at Saugeen Chippewa Village near Southampton. Is there any record of the smallpox epidemic in that area?" - Keith Stelling
niche-canada.org/2020/04/03/q...
#histmed #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #envhist
📚 BSHS Singer Prize
The BSHS invites submissions from early careers for the Singer Prize, awarded for an outstanding essay based on original research in the history of science, technology, or medicine.
Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/grants/#sing...
We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
New collection on Layers of London created using fieldwork, photography, stamp-based prints, and digital mapping to records overlooked historical artefacts in contemporary London. #digitalhumanities
cutting from Daily Express 9/9/1914, p. 4, photo of young woman wearing form of nursing uniform, captioned: A member of the "Daily Express" Nursing Corps photographed yesterday at Selfridge's wearing the special badge with the regulation overall and cap. Inset is an enlarged reproduction of the badge.
Does anyone know of any work on the ‘Daily Express Nursing Corps’, formed in August 1914? I’m researching someone who apparently paid for the training, exams, & uniform but then was unable to secure relevant employment. #WW1 #NursingHistory #histmed #medicalhistory
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
Welcome to the community!
This looks like a brilliant role with the #MedHums team at Durham (2 year postdoc, 28 hours/week) ‘Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry’: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ154/p...
Great opportunity here for historians of voluntary action and child poverty to have their say, as the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees reviews the government's plans, record and level of ambition on ending child poverty
committees.parliament.uk/work/9581/re...
New page! Our "Environmental History Around the World" section is expanding, and we have now added a page with podcasts, interviews, lectures, and talks. This is just the beginning; Help us expand it by suggesting other series on environmental history! www.iceho.org/talk-series
#EnvHist
In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here:
mailchi.mp/a115dcbd44a0...
Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History
What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback?
February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST)
Zoom details:
lnkd.in/g77JzGdg...
Password: 534412
Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6
Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!
A page of cursive handwriting featuring a flourish about the final D of each word.
Title page of "A Syllabus of the Lectures on Midwifery, Delivered at Guy's Hospital, 1813 and 1814" by Dr. Haighton.
The book open at two page. The left shows a printed syllabus with information about the placenta, the righthand page is filled with handwritten notes on the topic.
Image shows the marbled cover of the book.
For #HandwritingDay, step into an 1813 classroom. This book belonged to a student who attended Dr Haighton’s midwifery lectures at Guy’s. The writing is in a flowing cursive. Look for the flourish on the letter D. It’s interleaved: a printed syllabus bound together with blank pages for notes.
#Spain is where all the action is in 2026!! Following our Madrid event, our University of Granada hosts welcome #ReproHist scholars to #HistMed #MedHums workshop. Zoom link will issue to registered attendees only. #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Skystorians #GenderHist #WomensHistory #HistHealth
We have been watching #Amadeus and the opening titles piqued our interest. The animations show the making of catgut, a material used for both musical instruments and for surgical suturing. We've paired some stills with images from our collection to show how catgut was made 🧵🪡
CW: Gore, needles
There's still time to get your materials in for some AAHM prizes! If you're an early career scholar, consider applying for the Pressman-Burroughs Early Career Development award by Jan 31: histmed.org/pressman-bur... #histmed
There's also still time to apply for the Osler Medal, which is awarded for the best essay in the history of medicine written by a medical student: histmed.org/william-osle... #histmed
