A history of medicine themed pub quiz at #SSHM2026 ‘The 5 Humours’ just claiming first spot ahead of a strong group of teams. A shout out to quiz master extraordinaire Kat Rawlings and her awesome sparkly trousers and @meggraham9.bsky.social for running such a fun event!! #histmed

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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Happy to share that ‘Remapping Black Women’s Health Activism Within and Beyond Australia’s International Women’s Year’ has been published open-access. It contributes to the Special Issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year. doi.org/10.1080/1031...

Remapping Black Women’s Health Activism Within and Beyond Australia’s International Women’s Year

Considering the work of Black women activists compels us to remap our understandings of International Women’s Year and the subsequent United Nations (UN) Decade for Women. Drawing on a series of wo...

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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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Alt: a black and white alarm clock counting down

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So excited to be on the conference organising committee for SSHM 2026!

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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/

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

Delighted to have been invited to share my doctoral research at the LSHTM Centre for Public Health Seminar tomorrow. Join online if you can make it. ⏰ 12.45 (UK time) 🗓️ 5th February 2025 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

In pursuit of justice and wellness: Aboriginal health activism as resistance in

This presentation explores the development of grassroots Aboriginal Medical Services in late twentieth century Indigenous Australia. Created by and for the community in 1971, these Aboriginal Medical

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Great to see my book review published in @cambridgeup.bsky.social Medical History journal today! You can read here: doi.org/10.1017/mdh.... #histmed #aushist

At last some coverage of the major cyber attack at the British Library and the impact this has had on researchers. It is a critical piece of national infrastructure. Worrying if they will have to spend 40% of their reserves on rebuilding their digital services on.ft.com/48FCP4T

British Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attack

London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

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