Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment.
In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online

📆28 Apr 2026
🕰️16:30 – 18:30
To register 👇

So glad to see that this edited volume by Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich to which I contributed a chapter is now available free-to-read on UPLOpen uplopen.com/books/e/10.7... 🗃️ #histmed #booksky

Please Note NEW TIME: 12pm BST (UK & Irl) / 1pm CET (Europe) Please join our Seminar series jointly organised between Working Group 1 & 4 on 16 April 2026 where Prof Barry Doyle will talk on 'What is a Hospital'.
Check your email for meeting links #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians #HealthHist

Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland. 24 april 2026. 5.30pm. picture of Dr Juliana Adelman

Delighted to welcome keynote Dr Juliana Adelman, DCU to our #HSTM 2026 Annual Meeting. The keynote: Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland will be hosted @unioflimerick.bsky.social 24 April 5.30pm #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians

Don't forget next Wed 15 April - WG5 lunchtime seminar series with @chendirl.bsky.social speaking on Voluntary Gravedigging as Living Heritage #DeathStudies #Heritage #GLAM #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth

Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain
18 June 2026 at Uni of Warwick
Hosted by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social &
Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology supported by @sslh.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Booking now open
#histmed #histSTM

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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...

Forthcoming publication in SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
Out September 2026!
#histmed

Call For Papers:
𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬.
𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝
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𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥: www.medici.org/cfp-tuscany-...
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#CSMBR #MediciArchive #KnowledgeCriculation #Tuscany #Florence #IberianPeninsula

We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care. ⁠
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Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship

#histmed #fellowship

Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England - Economic History Society This blog post by Rebecca Wynter (NIAS-KNAW and University of Birmingham) and Len Smith (University of Birmingham) is based on a paper presented to the ‘Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, a...

🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔

New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way.

#HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️

Military Communities' Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series - History Hub The Military Welfare History Network provides a networking and dissemination platform for scholars who are research active in military welfare history. Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome T...

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social It is with great pleasure that we present a selection of recorded papers from our recent funded conference series. Listen to them here #milwelfhist #histmed
#military #welfare #benefits

historyhub.ie/military-com...

VIDEOS Keynote speakers Who Cares? 2026 Andrew SCULL & Erika DYCK Please find below the videos of our keynote speakers’ presentations Professor Andrew SCULL (University of San Diego California):  “A Psychiatric Revolution” Chair: Marie DERRIEN (Université de Lille) ...

Who Cares? Conference 2026 : the videos of our keynote speakers, Andrew Scull & Erika Dyck are now available online :
whocares.hypotheses.org/keynote-spea...
Many thanks to both of them 🤗
@clairedeligny.bsky.social
@embfauquert.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social @creananterre.bsky.social

Sadly can't get beamed into Oxford for launch of this collection on antecedents of public health, edited by Guy Geltner et al. Perhaps another launch back in Melbourne, Guy?
#histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

For researchers: a useful list of techniques to sharpen your googling.

h/t @alondra.bsky.social

#skystorians #histsci #histmed #histtech

Applications are closing soon! ⏰

The 2026 History of Healthcare Awards offer funding to support research in uncovering the answers from the past that may shape tomorrow’s health care.

Deadline to submit applications is April 1 at 5:00 pm (ET).

Apply now:
buff.ly/wKwoSTP

#HistMed

🛎️ Postdoc opportunity 🛎️
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Deadline April 5th.
#histmed #histstm

hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j...

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"!

Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia

Program: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F...

Registration: forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQj...

#histmed #histstm

SSHM 2026: In/Out University of Leeds 30 June – 3 July 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling and Conference Committee: Dr Alex Bamji, Professor Shane Doyle, Megan Graham, Professor Robert Hornsby, Dr Will Jackson, Dr J…

📣Registration is now open 📣 for #SSHM2026
The Society's biennial conference In/Out will be held at University of Leeds 30 June -3 July 2026
#histmed

Working with medical and mental health records This session will explore the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma.

This free #online session from the research team at The National Archives explores the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma. Suitable for the archivist, researcher, or heritage professional
📆Weds 15 April
🕰️1:00 - 2:00 pm GMT+1
#histmed

This Wednesday! We wrap up our seminar series this term with:

'Medical Diasporas: Chinese Medicine in London and a Family Case Study' – Jieluan Huang
🗓️ Wednesday 25 March
🕰️ 15.30-17.00
📍8th floor, Strand building

#histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm

@kingshistory.bsky.social

Jamini Sen: The Bengali doctor who made medical history in Britain In 1912, Jamini Sen became the first woman Fellow of Glasgow’s Royal College, founded in 1599 and long closed to women.

Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, &
the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 2 of our #WhoCares2026 conference: a wonderful guided tour of the medical library at Ste Anne Hospital (bibliotheques.ghu-paris.fr/index.php?lv...), and then back to Nanterre for fascinating presentations 🤓
With the kind support of @sshmedicine.bsky.social & @creananterre.bsky.social

Who Cares 2026 Day 3: many thanks to our keynote Erika Dyck for such a great talk on psychedelics 🍄 & to @clairedeligny.bsky.social 👌
Deeply grateful to everyone for a fantastic 3-day conference!! See you next year for "Circulations & Transfers" @sshmedicine.bsky.social @creananterre.bsky.social

1st day of our #WhoCares2026 conference at Paris Nanterre! Pr Andrew Scull gave the opening lecture & the day was dedicated to fascinating presentations on theories & policies in the history of psychiatry! With the kind support of @sshmedicine.bsky.social & @creananterre.bsky.social

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

Santorio Award - CSMBR Santorio Award for Excellence in Research is a scheme designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD thesis in history of medicine and science with a focu...

Santorio Award for Excellence in Research!

This biannual award is designed to support and promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science, focusing on Europe and the Mediterranean, 500-1800.

See the link for more details: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/grants-and-a...

#histmed

📢 Join us for the CHSTM PG Seminar Series!
🗓️ Swapnil Chaudhary (IISER Mohali) — “Hindu Ayurveda, Medical Communalism and Body: Ayurvedic Revival Movement in United Provinces (1900-1925)”
🕐Tue 24 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link
#HistMed

Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...

A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities
Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR)
📆29-30 Oct 2026
University of Stirling
Applications by 15 April

A lovely workshop organized by @kindkovacs.bsky.social & Annina Gagyiova this spring in Budapest and online, as part of the @eurohealthhist.bsky.social COST action 22159! Something for #skystorians in #medhist and beyond.