Fantastic presentation by Naomi Samake-Backert of the RE:SHaRE team as part of the @cshhh.bsky.social seminar series this evening. Naomi spoke to us on her important research on virginity testing and reproductive surveillance at Heathrow airport in the late 70s. #histmed

Facilitating a conversation between some brilliant thinkers @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on Thursday around the material culture of childbirth. Expect scrolls, pools and talismanic objects!

Delighted to welcome Naomi Samake-Bäckert to share her research into Black woman's activism in the 1970s around the practice of state-mandated virginity testing at Heathrow with the @cshhh.bsky.social on Tuesday the 10th of March 4-5.30 pm in the Business School Cathedral Wing Room 408.

Looking forward to hosting Tom White next week for a co-hosted seminar with the Scottish Oral History Centre, Tuesday 3rd of March 4-5.30pm Graham Hills Building Room 222. Everyone welcome!

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Next CSHHH seminar on February 3rd in Strathclyde Business School CW408 4-5.30pm with Dr Francesca Lewis speaking on the fascinating history of Borderline Personality Disorder. All welcome!

Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Our first seminar of 2026 will take placeThursday 22nd of Jan 4-5.30 pm @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the CW406a where we will be joined by Dr Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen on 'Living with risk assessments. How direct-to-consumer genetic testing changes narratives of illness and health'. Come!

A reminder that the deadline to get your abstracts in for the nest Society for the Social History of Medicine conference Leeds 2026 is almost upon us!

Marek Eby@marekeby.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join us in Leeds!

Come along to the last @cshhh.bsky.social seminar of 2025! Saved the best to last, come hear @jdnott.bsky.social of @biomedselfsoc.bsky.social on the East African Medical Survey, mathematics, and modernism. 26th November, 4pm-5.30pm, Teaching & Learning Building 325, Strathclyde. Wine /crips

Thrilled to be hearing from @drflewis.bsky.social on the history of Borderline Personality Disorder @cshhh.bsky.social on Wednesday 19th November, 4pm-5.30pm in the Graham Hills Building 514, University of Strathclyde. Everyone welcome! No need to sign up just come along

One last reminder and then I promise I will stop but if you are anywhere near Glasgow on Wednesday do please come celebrate 20 years of the @cshhh.bsky.social with us! Talks from the fantastic Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social, drinks and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social's best snacks!

Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

We are thrilled to announce that @joannabourke.bsky.social and Tracey Loughran will be helping us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the @cshhh.bsky.social. Come along on the 29th of October to hear two fantastic public lectures and to raise a glass with us. Register here: tinyurl.com/4k98rn7w

Excited to be joining @ruairirobertson.bsky.social, @jenniepedley.bsky.social, Merrilees Roberts, Joanna Penso and Rhodri Hayward for an evening of gut based malarky. Thursday 12 June, free to attend, likely be refreshments of some kind, do come! @c19qmul.bsky.social @qmul-microbiome.bsky.social

Next week the CSHHH will host Sioban Nelson (University of Toronto) for the last of this term's seminars on 'The Tale of the Abandoned Trunk: Rockefeller Foundation Nursing Fellows and the Politics of a Global Vision for American Nursing in the Mid Twentieth Century' 4-5.30 TL565

Celebrating the retirement of the peerless Caroline Marley, @cshhh.bsky.social administrator and minder of Prof Mills.

Next Tuesday (4th of March) we welcome Merrilees Roberts (QMUL) to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for the next @cshhh.bsky.social seminar! 4-5.30 pm in TL565 to hear about 'Keats’s Blushing Bodies: Inflammation, Arousal and Critique'. All welcome, there will be wine and crisps obviously.