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Dr Beatriz Pichel

@beapichel.bsky.social

Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her

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

The latest issue of SSHM's The Gazette is available via the website (no. 111 July 2026). #histmed #histSTM CFPs, conference reports and the latest from the journal and book series.

Stay Informed with The Gazette of SSHM

The Gazette of the SSHM was launched in 1990 to keep subscribers of Social History of Medicine informed about professional events within as well as outside the SSHM. It not only provides a means to…

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Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com · 3d ago

Where's the righteous anger the news about Exeter has engendered? Where are the think pieces about learning loss and unconscionable redundancies? The problem will never be understood or *addressed* if we do not, collectively, respond to the full scale of it.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Dr. Heather Dichter@hdichter.bsky.social · 6d ago

UK 🇬🇧 people - I’ll be on Channel 4 this Saturday night at 8 pm in this documentary on the 1936 Olympic Games #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️

International Centre for Sports History and Culture@icshc.bsky.social · 6d ago

'Hitler's Games: Berlin 1936 In Colour'. Look out for @icshc.bsky.social Dr Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social who is an academic contributor to this major Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Saturday 1st August 2026 at 8pm - www.channel4.com/programmes/h... #sportshistory #olympics

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of my first proper articles was published in History of the Human Sciences and I can't recommend it enough. It was a great experience and the little article is still being cited 10 years later. Do submit!

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are keen to encourage paper/special submissions to History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social — particularly on topics our journal less frequently addresses. Please get in touch w @sarahvmarks.bsky.social or me; we are happy to discuss in person at Edinburgh conf or afterwards #eshs-hss

Helen Zaltzman@helenzaltzman.bsky.social · 3w ago

there still seem to be far too many people who don't know/care that JKR has been funding and promoting anti-trans bigotry for the past several years. It's not a "difference of opinion" - LOOK, she is now even trying to take down Amnesty, for fuck's sake. www.erininthemorning.com/p/terf-activ...

TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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Leonie V. Hicks@lvhicks.bsky.social · 4w ago

He means institutions like mine. Would Birmingham be on the list to close its research? Doubt it. People are not automatically better researchers because they work at the Birminghams of this world.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Concentrating research in fewer UK universities splits vice-chancellors. Birmingham leader’s call to focus on 20-30 institutions amid surging applications contested by fellow VCs. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Kim A. Wagner@kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 4w ago

Following up on this, it would appear that there are hallucinated references in at least three publications by Dr Hadas Zahavi, Founding Director of Columbia University Global Center for Peace - including an article in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications published by Nature...

Kim A. Wagner@kimatiwagner.bsky.social · last mo.

Interesting to see a reference in this article to Daniel Foliard 'Dislocations: The Photography of War in the Middle East' (London: Verso, 2023) - a book that sounds incredible but which doesn't actually exist. Wonder what else has been hallucinated...?

Greg Walker@gregmw4.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an absolutely astonishing and disgraceful situation, not just for the brilliant scholars and teachers involved, but for the young people of the region, now and on the future, and for the discipline nationally.

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 4w ago

The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · last mo.

Bright and early on my way to Leeds! If it's your first time at #SSHM26 or don't know many people, come and talk with me! If you want to know more about the Society, come talk to me! If you work on photography, ethics, archives or 19C France guess what? Come talk to me!

A photo of a train at a train station
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last mo.

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · last mo.

Reposting with alt text split over images b/c I think this is really important information for #skystorians There's plenty of productive conversation to have about the differences in citation/credit practices between popular/trade and academic publishing, but this is egregious, deliberate and wrong.

To all the readers out there: My deep love for Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, the subjects of my 2014 biography Charity and Sylvia, has kept me silent, up to this point, about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel by the same title. Charity and Sylvia's story has been so deeply meaningful to so many people their story has, without exaggeration, saved lives that I've tried to be happy that Walden's book is making their story more widely known, even if she chose to take my title and my cover design as well as my narrative and my research with only a single sentence of acknowledgement at the end of her book in her notes section. Walden's illustrations and storytelling are wonderful, as I told her when she reached out to me during the writing process. It would take nothing away from her hard work to be honest about how it is built on my hard work. But in Walden's publicity tour, she has repeatedly made the claim to have based her book on her extensive research in the archive without acknowledging that her book is, in fact, based on my book. This false representation demands response not only for my sake, but for the sake of all the hard-working historians out there whose work has similarly been taken without credit. No, Walden has not "uncovered a chapter of queer history" in the archives, as her media interviews have claimed. She has adapted my book without credit or compensation, and claimed my research for her own. I don't doubt that Walden spent time looking at letters at the Henry Sheldon Museum, but the story that Walden tells is not to be found there. It is a story that I pieced together from years of visits to at least twenty different archives and locations across the United States, not only in Vermont but in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington State, as well. This is not just a question of facts but of story: the story of how Charity and Sylvia built a life together based in tailoring, struggled with their faith, and maintained relationships with their family is one that I constructed from the countless fragments that I gathered through painstaking research. Many of the details of that story which appeared in my book, and re-appear in Walden's, do not come from the Henry Sheldon Museum, where she claims to have done her research. They come from the countless additional archives I visited. For just a few examples: the story about Charity's siblings' deaths was built on my tracking down a forgotten graveyard enclosed in a chain link fence behind a Burger King in Brockton, Massachusetts. The story about Charity learning to sew from her spinster aunt Charity Howard comes from a textile fragment that I tracked down in the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. The story about Charity buying a ring for Sylvia comes from a letter I found in an archive in Long Island, New York. And the story of how Charity and Sylvia rented their property in Vermont comes from town records that were at the village hall in Weybridge, Vermont. I could go on. It saddens me that Walden's media blitz will make my book harder for readers to find, not easier, and diminish its continuing power to have the enormously positive impact it has had to this point, which is why I feel the need to correct the record. Sincerely, Rachel Hope Cleves
Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · last mo.

Working on my paper for #SSHM in Leeds and I realised this is the first in person conference* I do since 2022!! It's also going to be my second night away from my child, so I'm between doing all the things and having fun at the conference dinner or just SLEEP *that I haven't organised myself lol

Will Clement@historywill.bsky.social · last mo.

Call for chapters: "The Aesthetics of Modern Monarchies: c. 1842-1952" @livsmitch.bsky.social and I are inviting chapter proposals for a volume on the ways that global 'modern monarchies' (defined broadly) self-presented and were presented through visual culture. Full details below - please share!

Call for Chapters: The Aesthetics of Modern Monarchies: c. 1842-1952 (This volume is being proposed as a submission to the Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy series at Palgrave MacMillan) This is an invitation for proposals for chapters for an innovative, forthcoming collection on the connected aesthetic histories of rulers, royalty, monarchs and consorts. In 1842, the French king Louis-Philippe I was the first reigning monarch to be photographed, with the British Prince Albert photographed in the same year. Over a century after these first royal photographs, the aesthetics of modern monarchies now had to contend with the advent of televisual media, which covered moments of triumph as much as of weakness. The referendum on Belgian king Leopold III’s rule in 1950 and his abdication the following year was widely covered by the international media; just a year later, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms was the first monarch to have their coronation ceremony fully broadcast on television. Between these two moments of mediatised royal presentation, this was a period of seismic change for royalty and rulers across the world who were subject to expanding and diminishing empires, the threat of revolutions and nationalism, the fall of dynasties as well as the ongoing impact of wars, trade and politics. Visual culture, including but certainly not limited to photography and televisual media, became increasingly integral to the image of monarchy as the rise of new technologies and communications shaped the way rulers were presented and could present themselves to broad audiences, domestically and globally. This collection will assess varied forms of visual culture during this transitional period, exploring the ways that royalty could be defined and redefined as well as connected on a global scale.The editors define ‘modern monarchies’ for this collection as including absolute or constitutional monarchs, members of royal families, emperors/empresses, deposed monarchs, ceremonial/puppet monarchs and consorts. Studies of non-European royals are particularly welcomed. This excludes histories of recent remembrance of these royals. Chapter proposals must contain a visual component to this study inclusive of but not limited to: • Photographs • Paintings/drawings/illustrations • Prints (including newspaper print) • Caricatures • Clothing • Loot • Architecture • Coinage • Cinema/television • Theatre/pantomime • Posters • Medals/jewels Studies on royals are inclusive but not limited to: • Displays of gender • Politics and authority • Resistance and revolution • Charity and humanitarianism • Nationalism • Colonialism and empire • Religion • Race and racism • Succession, coronation, and abdication • Scandal and public image • Domesticity • Modernity • Class/poverty Please send detailed chapter proposals of 350 words and a 100-word biography to Dr Olivia Mitchell and Dr Will Clement at aestheticsmonarchy@gmail.com with the header ‘Aesthetics of Modern Monarchies’ by 1 October 2026. Informal enquiries may also be sent to the editors at this address. Contributors will be notified of the outcome by 1 December 2026 with full chapters of 8,000-10,000 words due from accepted proposals by summer 2027.
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · last mo.

Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · last mo.

Again and again and again, a person losing their job at a Post-92 uni is every bit the equal of a person losing their job at a Russell Group uni. They might even be their collaborator. Or their editor. But hierarchy gets headlines.

Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · last mo.

My slides are ready! I'll only talk for 10/15 min because we want to encourage discussion but I could talk foreeeever about my favourite topic #histmed #photohist

a power point slide, title says: Medical Photography, Ethics and Care, a Historical Perspective, author is Dr Beatriz Pichel, Photographic History REsearch Centre, DMU. Logos of UKRI AHRC and Leverhulme Trust. The background is a picture of a glass plate negative with a fingerprint
Dr Beatriz Pichel@beapichel.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us on Thursday! MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, ETHICS AND CARE Date: Thursday 25 June 2026 Time: 2-3.30 pm UK time Platform: Ms Teams Speakers: Liz Orton (artist) Dr Maria Berghs (University of Cambridge) Dr Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University) Register here: forms.gle/LcLqcewWd2LU...

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last mo.

Each uni has a consultancy in that tells them how to run a degree cheaply. They all simply say 'mega lectures' (LOL, infrastructure) & 'generic modules staff is interchangeable on'. It's pitched as rationalising, creating a 'sustainable' portfolio. But its destroying what university actually is.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · last mo.

I don’t know the details but they may well targeting modules with lower registration, where a world expert gets to teach their research to a relatively small number of the keenest students. You know. Those modules that stick in the students’ minds for the rest of their lives.