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Dr Anna Jamieson

@annafranjam.bsky.social

Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum

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Natasha Simonova@philistella.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As @caroladlam.bsky.social isn't on here much these days, I feel like I need to blow the trumpet about her brilliant graphic novel about the life of Eliza Raine (the first lover of Anne Lister, but also so much more than that), forthcoming with Virago! www.thebookseller.com/rights/graph...

Graphic novel inspired by Anne Lister’s first ‘wife’ signed by Virago

Virago has acquired a graphic novel inspired by Anne Lister’s first “wife”, by award-winning author-illustrator Carol Adlam.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)@sshmedicine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Final week to register for #SSHM2026! Registration Closes 15 June The Society’s biennial conference takes place 30 June - 3 July at University of Leeds The theme is In/Out

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…

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027. Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid

The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.

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Kristof Smeyers@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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Helen Esfandiary@helenesfandiary.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join me online at 10am GMT this Friday for my talk: 'Straightening Childhood: The Le Vacher Machine and Maternal Regulation of the Body in Georgian England.' I’ll be exploring how mothers read, managed & reshaped children’s bodies through the corrective device featured below, and others like it 👇

Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!  www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Still time to sign up for our online event *Object Stories in Health and Medicine* on Friday 5 December! We've got a fantastic programme with panels on Wearable Objects, Object Biographies, Representing the Body, Personal Papers and Domestic Health. One week today @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.

birmingham.ac.uk

Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Still time to sign up for our online event *Object Stories in Health and Medicine* on Friday 5 December! We've got a fantastic programme with panels on Wearable Objects, Object Biographies, Representing the Body, Personal Papers and Domestic Health. One week today @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social

Object stories in health and medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

This event is aimed at researchers across the medical humanities and histories of medicine and psychiatry working with material culture.

birmingham.ac.uk

Sophie Coulombeau@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers@maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4
Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled to be part of this special issue and to see my article, "I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers' now online #openaccess @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social #mentalhealth #womenshist onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health, and Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers

This article examines how space, sociability, and letter-writing are conceptualised as self-care strategies by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Building on a recent proliferation of int....

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Dr Hannah Blythe@hanblythe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025

Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...

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Mila Daskalova@miladaskalova.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A few more tickets remain for the poetry reading at the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov 19, 1.30-3.30pm. We'll talk about the ways in which poets represented their experiences as patients and doctors throughout history.

The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness

Eventbrite - Scottish Poetry Library presents The Mind in Verse: Reading Poetry about Madness - Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Find event and ticket inf...

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Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I was the recipient of the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship to Women's History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk in 2023 - and can't recommend this fellowship enough. An amazing place to research, read and write. Deadline 28th Nov 2025 for applications #womenshist

Sarah Knott@sarahknott.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Helen Esfandiary@helenesfandiary.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ll be speaking about the very object featured below - the Le Vacher machine - and how mothers in Georgian England used devices like it to 'straighten' children’s bodies. #HistMed #MaterialCulture #MedicalHumanities #18thCentury

Dr Anna Jamieson@annafranjam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!  www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...