6 Apr 1619: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury lays the foundation stone of The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, now better known as Abbot's Hospital at #Guildford #otd (Jack1956/NPG)

thank you, too kind!

A woman with a Bournemouth University hoodie looks over Bournemouth Pier. The tagline is Bournemouth: For Health and Pleasure, which is an old railway poster slogan

Our keynotes are @cemathieson.bsky.social (University of Surrey) on ‘From “seaside girls” to “the sun-tanning crowd”: Cultures of Suntanning in Britain, c.1900-1940’ and Professor Sam Goodman (@bournemouthuni.bsky.social ) on 'Wishful Drinking?: Alcohol, Medicine and Wellbeing, Past and Present'

The programme is now up and registration is now open for our Literatures & Medicines Online Symposium (April 23 2025)--please check it out and sign up! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

#medicalhumanities #literature #onlineevent @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

My piece for History Workshop looks back at what feels, I'm sure to me and so many other academics in the UK, like a decade-long crisis in universities. A crisis of politics, of a particularly venomous form of "education as market" ideology, and now a crisis of desperate, annihilating job cuts. 1/2

Things are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

A reminder that next week you can hear me talk about the smell history of Glasgow’s subway online or in person at the IHR!

Check out the ADM8 Database that @sarahspa.bsky.social and I have been working on together. We're getting very close to having all the deployment reports live. Maybe tomorrow.

If you know anybody who is working on/researching the Royal Navy between 1673-1691, let them know about this database.

Really looking forward to this!

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.

@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Could I be added please? Thank you!

Yes please, thank you!

An Avon banana tanning lotion on a bunch of bananas

Sindy doll lying on a doll-sized tanning bed toy

I’m also on Instagram @ Dr_Charlotte_Mathieson where I post some of the highlights of the research, and my ever-growing collection of 20th century vintage suntanning-culture items… (like this Avon Sunana tanning lotion from the 70s, and 1980s Sindy sunbed)

Photograph of men on top of church tower, looking towards smoke in the distance. N.S.A.S Yorkshire division delegation looking at railway smoke from York Minster on March 1950. (Copyright: Wellcome Collection, ref: SA/EPU/D/5.)

Next week!

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar:

Steam trains & the smoke abatement movement in Britain
@emilea.bsky.social

21 Nov 2024, 17.30 UK, Hybrid
All welcome!

📷@ExploreWellcome #Railway200

Register here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-fam...

Well it seems very nice around here and, 24 hours in, I should really say hello… I’m a Victorianist interested in mobilities in literature and culture, currently working on various things related to my project on “Cultures of suntanning” in the 19th to mid-20th centuries