Chaired a great panel at #SSHM2026 on Global Health and Documentation. @alexandra-ward.bsky.social and silences in ship voyage health reports @jdnott.bsky.social explored the East African Medical Survey And Yue Cui - documented but untreated medical exclusion in colonial Manchuria #histmed

Great mentoring session with the SSHM EC team at #SSHM2026 postgraduate and EC workshop.Thank you to Yuliya Hilevych @beapichel.bsky.social @ecrichardson.bsky.social @hpsvanessa.bsky.social Organised by @meggraham9.bsky.social & @alexandra-ward.bsky.social (Leeds organising team) #histmed

Delighted to have co-organised the ‘Routes and Roots’ PGR Workshop yesterday with Amy, Toby & Joseph. Thanks to everyone who travelled to Sheffield and shared such wide-ranging and important work. Grateful to WRoCAH for funding, and to Dr Michael Bennett for his support and keynote.

🚨 Final week! Call for Papers closes next Friday, 20th Feb.

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Excited to share the CfP for an event I’m co-organising: “Routes and Roots: Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Abolition, and their Legacies” — a PGR workshop at the University of Sheffield (keynote: Dr Michael Bennett) CfP deadline: Friday 20th February 👉 Apply here: forms.gle/DVR9uUSnbqGE... Please share!

Excited to share the CfP for an event I’m co-organising: “Routes and Roots: Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Abolition, and their Legacies” — a PGR workshop at the University of Sheffield (keynote: Dr Michael Bennett) CfP deadline: Friday 20th February 👉 Apply here: forms.gle/DVR9uUSnbqGE... Please share!

Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds! Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to sshm2026leeds@leeds.ac.uk More details at: sshm.org/sshm-2026-in... @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historynerdess.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #histmed

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Tomorrow! Wed, 3 Dec, 6pm GMT How do you abolish slavery on a remote island, governed by a trading company, where everybody knows everybody else? St Helenian history is always intriguing - and always different! Free webinar with author Colin Fox. bit.ly/StH0312

Job Opportunity! Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF977/t...

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Thank you to the Friends of St Helena for inviting me to speak at their annual meeting where I discussed my PhD research, my recent trip to the island, and the family history I undertook while there. Also delighted to have been published in FoSH's journal, the Wirebird!

Reminder! Call for Papers for the School of History PGR Seminar closes next week (Monday 20th October). Apply here: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd #History #PGR #CfP

Alex Ward@alexandra-ward.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Call for Papers! Applications to present at the University of Leeds' School of History Postgraduate Research Seminar for the 2025-26 year are now open. If you are a postgraduate with work-in-progress on any time period or aspect of historical study, please do apply: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

SSHM 2026: In/Out

Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…

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Call for Papers! Applications to present at the University of Leeds' School of History Postgraduate Research Seminar for the 2025-26 year are now open. If you are a postgraduate with work-in-progress on any time period or aspect of historical study, please do apply: forms.office.com/e/vgxD8Tgizd

Happy to share that my review of Mary Hicks' 'Captive Cosmopolitans; Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery' book has been published on H-Net, you can read here! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Looking forward to presenting a paper at the 'Voices of the Marginalised' conference in 2 weeks, based on some of my PhD research on 'liberated African' migration www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

Home for the next month! So excited to be working with the Museum, National Trust and schools here on St Helena alongside my PhD research

Thank you to Dulwich College History Society for inviting me to speak on my research on Friday! It was great to meet some future historians & reflect on lots of interesting questions they had.