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We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
I passed my viva! Huge thanks to my examiners for such a constructive viva.
MancHSTM@manchstm.bsky.social · 3w agoCongratulations to Xinyue Li, who passed her viva today. Her PhD was on The Transformation of Meteorological Knowledge in China, 1840-1934. The photo shows her with the examiners, Dr Chris Courtney and Dr Amelia Bonea.
Please join us on 29 October for the 2nd Biennial Pickstone Lecture. Our speaker will be Prof Roberta Bivins (Warwick) on A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
Pickstone Lecture 2026
Professor Roberta Bivins A Positive Difference: Minoritised Communities in British Healthcare and Innovation 29 October 2026
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Congratulations to Xinyue Li, who passed her viva today. Her PhD was on The Transformation of Meteorological Knowledge in China, 1840-1934. The photo shows her with the examiners, Dr Chris Courtney and Dr Amelia Bonea.
Join CHSTM PhD Alumna Dr Eleanor Shaw at the British Library!
Dr Eleanor Shaw@eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 4w agoFancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
I don't think I have mentioned this fabulous article by one of our PhD students yet: Sally Cross, ‘Transforming Biomedical Uncertainty: The Sociohistorical Origins of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)’, Medical Humanities, 14 August 2026, doi.org/10.1136/medh....
Transforming biomedical uncertainty: the sociohistorical origins of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious and disabling long-term conditions characterised by uncertainty surrounding their aetiology, diagnosis and treatment. Peop...
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Congratulations to Joe Manock who was awarded the Faculty of Humanities Postgraduate Research Dean’s Prize for his thesis on Sites of Feeling: An Emotional History of Famine in Colonial India, supervised by Anindita Gosh in History and CHSTM's Amelia Bonea. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/j...
Joseph Manock
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Liang Wan, Simon Huxtable, and Sarah Marks. Brief Encounter: Acupuncture, Pavlov, and Scientific Exchange Between China and the Soviet Union, 1949-1961. Liang did a Masters in Medical Humanities with us. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Tom Quick, Securing the Monkey Supply Chain: Towards a Critical Logistical History of Laboratory Animal Science. Tom was a postdoc at CHSTM in the 2010s. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Securing the Monkey Supply Chain: Towards a Critical Logistical History of Laboratory Animal Science | Isis: Vol 0, No ja
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Great to hear that two papers by @manchstm.bsky.social alumni have just been accepted for publication in Isis.
Happy to announce that we've got two new exhibits in our Museum of Medicine and Health digital exhibition, Instruments of Change. Both were curated by @manchester.ac.uk Museum and Art Gallery Studies postgrads. (1/3) www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/instrument...
Both authors were based at CHSTM when the book was published. #HistMed #HistSTM
Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 5mo agoCheck out this #OpenAccess book on the history of our dealings with fungal disease, by Aya Homei and Mick Worboys. Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000: Mycoses and Modernity link.springer.com/book/10.1057...
A series of excellent #PintOfScience events curated by this year’s cohort of students doing our MSc course in Science Communication. #SciComm pintofscience.co.uk/events/manch...
We're excited to welcome @bschillace.brandyschillace.com back to Manchester. Join us on 18 May for a couple of events, one online, the other f2f: - Coming Out As Disabled - How Typical is Typical All welcome; attendance free; registration via the link below. blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
Brandy Schillace Visit
Visiting Scholar: Brandy Schillace, 11–24 May 2026 Coming Out as Disabled. 18 May, 1-2pm How typical is typical? 18 May, 4-5:30pm
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📢 Join us for CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Dyuti Gupta (University of Manchester) “'Sister Morphine': Care, Pain, and Painkilling in First World War Nursing Narratives” Tue 12 May, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
Next Tuesday: Mary Brazelton on the Chinese response to Sputnik. #HistSTM #HistSci
MancHSTM@manchstm.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor your diaries: CHSTM Seminar, 12 May 2026 - Professor Mary Augusta Brazelton will be speaking on Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
The invitation to the launch party for the next issue of Planet Bee 🐝, our science magazine run by students, edited by students, and with content by students. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/bicent...
MancHSTM colleague Simone Turchetti on his NEWORLD@A project, in the online newsletter of the @erc.europa.eu erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
A world of data in a few hands
Drawing on the ERC-funded research project NEWORLDatA, Simone Turchetti explains why EU science dip
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New article by MancHSTM PhD Alumna Dr Michaela Clark, on: Surface Tensions: Race, Photography, and the Making of Universal Medical Knowledge in Segregationist South Africa. #HistMed #HistSTM muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Check out this article by Peter Mohr on a historical collection of microscope slides held at the @manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social Museum of Medicine and Health. #HistSTM #HistMed #MaterialCulture academic.oup.com/jhc/article/...
The Gibson microscope slide collection in the Museum of Medicine and Health, University of Manchester
Abstract. The Gibson microscope slide collection was donated to the Medical History Museum in Manchester (later the Museum of Medicine and Health) in 1977
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Interesting piece by friend of @manchstm.bsky.social, Prof Robert Poole: how does the Artemis II Earthset photo compare to the iconic Earthrise photo from 1968? theconversation.com/how-artemis-...
How Artemis II’s Earthset photo compares with the iconic Earthrise image from 1968
Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.
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New ISIS article by MancHSTM colleague Prof Simone Turchetti: The World United in Studying Itself? Data and the Coloniality of the International Geophysical Year, 1957–1958. #HistSTM #HistSci www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The World United in Studying Itself? Data and the Coloniality of the International Geophysical Year, 1957–1958 | Isis: Vol 117, No 1
Abstract The International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957–1958) pioneered worldwide collaborative research by uniting sixty-seven national committees in a data-gathering exercise across sixteen subdiscip...
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Please join us on 29 April 2026 for PLANTS, an online workshop and the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia. #HistSTM blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
Workshop: Plants
Join us for Plants, the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.
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Tomorrow: Nigeria in the the Antimicrobial Eras Stakeholder Workshop blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
Nigeria in the Antimicrobial Eras Stakeholders Workshop
We are pleased to announce our first stakeholder workshop for the Wellcome Trust funded project Nigeria in the Antimicrobial Eras on 24 March 2026.
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Co-organiser Krittapak Ngamvaseenont talking about his research on Decolonizing the Rural Thai Mind, ghosts, spirits, Buddhism, and the framework of transcultural psychiatry as applied in Cold-War Thailand, in theory and practice
This is happening today - but without online access. (sorry) blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2026/0...
History of ‘Psy’ Disciplines: Psychiatry, Mental Health, and Neuroscience
We are pleased to announce the first CHSTM PhD Workshop on the history of ‘psy’ disciplines on 12 March 2026.
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Here is the PG Seminar programme for this semester.
@chstmphds.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 Join us this spring for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact: krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk #HistSTM #histmed
TODAY
@chstmphds.bsky.social · 7mo ago📢 Join us for PG Seminar Series 25/26! 🗓️ Sara Bassanelli (Politecnico di Torino) “Scientific Standards and International Cooperation in the Interwar Period: The Case of Fundamental Electrical Units” Tue 10 Mar, 1–2 pm (UK) Email krittapak.ngamvaseenont@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for the link #HistSTM
