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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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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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
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
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
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
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Really looking forward to roundtable on Plantation Goods happening at UoB this Friday. All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
Roundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - University of Birmingham
On Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown).
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Really looking forward to roundtable on Plantation Goods happening at UoB this Friday. All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
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Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
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I have signed up and I can't wait!
✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website
Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed
Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026
10am-5.30pm GMT
This event is for SSHM members.
To sign up and for more details see website
Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT)
#histmed
UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS
SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…
sshm.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I have signed up and I can't wait!
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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 👇
'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 👇
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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 👇
'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 👇
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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
@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.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social
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
@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.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social
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Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
DON'T FORGET to register for #BSECS2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026.
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Early bird rates apply until tomorrow (Saturday 15 November 2025)
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Conference Registration
Registration for the BSECS Annual Conference is now open. Please use the form below to register for the conference.
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!
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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!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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!
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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
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
My contribution explores how space, sociability & letter-writing were conceptualised as strategies of self care by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Many thanks to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & David Denison and the JECS team for all their hard work on the issue!
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My contribution explores how space, sociability & letter-writing were conceptualised as strategies of self care by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Many thanks to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & David Denison and the JECS team for all their hard work on the issue!
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
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‘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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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/...
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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
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...
journals.sagepub.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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
Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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November 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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.
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2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
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RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
RETHINKING RIGOUR: a two-day symposium on creative-critical research in medical humanities organised by the NNMHR.
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
Explore method, assessment, and new possibilities for scholar-practitioners.
🗓️ Dec 4–5, Durham + online
🎟️ Free via Eventbrite: nnmh.org.uk/rethinking-r...
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North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
Huntington Exchange Fellowship - University of Birmingham
Information for prospective applicants wishing to apply to the Huntington for a Fellowship to visit the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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We will return on 18th. November with Emma Marshall, who will present 'Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750'.
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750
www.history.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We will return on 18th. November with Emma Marshall, who will present 'Remote parenting across the life-cycle: evidence from letters about children's health, c.1650-1750'.
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Further details can be found through the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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
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...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
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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
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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
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Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1957 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live.
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
A substantial number of her works survive, they explore painful & traumatic family relationships, details of which are sometimes noted on the backs of her paintings
Reposted by Dr Anna Jamieson
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Reposted by Dr Anna Jamieson
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...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
Reposted by Dr Anna Jamieson
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Image caption: Levacher de la Feutrie, Traité du rakitis, ou l'art de redresser les enfants contrefaits, 1772. Wellcome images.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Image caption: Levacher de la Feutrie, Traité du rakitis, ou l'art de redresser les enfants contrefaits, 1772. Wellcome images.