Thinking about whether to leave our own little message before the plaster goes back on….

Another piece listing chemists local to Sheffield

One for fellow #histmed…

A screwed up piece of newspaper, with adverts for bone setting and cannon ales

Another piece, with an advert for a music player

Another piece with a list of riddles!

Bone setters, ales, music players, and riddles!

A hole in the brick wall of our hallway

A screwed up piece of newspaper with the date August 5 1928 at the top.

Last night, I spent a while trying to unfurl these screwed up bits of newspaper which we found stuffed between the bricks of our hallway wall… one is from August 1928(!)

Truly depressing that, like every other current ECR/PhD, I’ve never known an academia that is any different

A square of red tiled floor. You can also see someone’s feet standing on the tiles, as well as various other kinds of flooring.

Taking up the carpets in our hallway and found this! Our house was built c.1930 so I’m intrigued to know how old this might be…

Hand holding a slim green book. The spine is facing the camera.

I have a knack for finding library books that haven’t been taken out by anyone else for decades (so don’t register on the library system). Might start a thread. Today, it’s this…

Also hoping one day to not have to rely on translated versions….

Red book titled ‘Divided Island’ by Daniela Tarazona. The book is held up by my hand, in front of a window with Venetian blinds. Through the blinds, you can see a garden.

Plans for the long Easter weekend (my resolution for this year was to read Mexican lit and I’ve been particularly looking forward to this one)

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Very much looking forward to this!

then i should've developed encyclopedic knowledge by now

This is Helen L*wis, for anyone under a rock still taking her seriously as a feminist/thinking journalist.

What are some great examples of creative approaches to history writing? Not necessarily historical fiction!

Very weird to stand in the hall, thinking about how big it felt to me then but also about life as it was

Gainsborough Old Hall, a large house mostly built in the 15th century.

Interior of the hall. I remember sitting at that top table as a child!

Visited Gainsborough Hall today for the second time today. First was when I went here on a school trip, c.2001-2003. I remember volunteering to dress up as the lady of the house, and getting to sit at the top table. The time of my life

Really enjoying Jacob Alon’s album at the moment. Melancholy and soothing in equal measure. Their voice is also lovely and style reminiscent of John Martyn (another personal fave). Highly recommend!

Feel I am about to tumble down a rabbit hole, but I would like to read something about Nikola Tesla and his experiences, studies of pain…

Thinking of you, Claire! Very scary stuff

So interesting! Would love to hear more about your course @disabilitystor1.bsky.social

I want this book to map a path that I hope is critical (not taking experience for granted, or as self-evident) but generous (careful not to trample on or invalidate people’s hard-won experiential positions that are under attack from those who seek to erase them).

The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol.

Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Uncertainty: A Collection of Poems - Journal of Medical Humanities Journal of Medical Humanities -

Came across this collection by chance this lunchtime, and so glad I did. A really lovely illustration of how art, in this case poetry, ‘can offer a place where certainty and uncertainty mingle’ within medicine.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Screenshot of a BBC news article, which details the increasing number of ‘fit notes’ for mental health concerns

And this is… a bad thing?

Most definitely one for the reading list!

Will she be ready for a meeting at 10? Is she talking about herself or her laptop? Who can say

Each morning, laptop seems to be taking longer and longer to turn on, same

Has anyone written something historical on the ‘… for Dummies’ book series? Just seen that there is one on chronic pain(!) and now obsessed with figuring out what that means

Remembering that I actually don’t mind doing footnote formatting lol. What does that say about me

Left all my footnotes to the last minute. Will I ever learn (no)