Claire Turner
@claireturner.bsky.social
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...
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historians, every day:
what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this information???
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
historians, every day:
Does anyone happen to have a digital copy of Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse)? TIA!
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Does anyone happen to have a digital copy of Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse)? TIA!
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We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project! Welcome Xiao!
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
New Editor: Polyphony Meets China
We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project.
thepolyphony.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project! Welcome Xiao!
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
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it’s that time of the year again where I reiterate my strong belief that we should ban fireworks because they’re stupid, pointless, and harmful.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
it’s that time of the year again where I reiterate my strong belief that we should ban fireworks because they’re stupid, pointless, and harmful.
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📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Transformative Humanities PhD Scheme - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Happy Halloween!
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Happy Halloween!
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
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You can SMELL the point-and-click game Foolish Mortals by @inklingwood.bsky.social!
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You can SMELL the point-and-click game Foolish Mortals by @inklingwood.bsky.social!
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
why is it that it's always when you've got an important deadline or event that your body decides it's the right time to get covid
October 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
why is it that it's always when you've got an important deadline or event that your body decides it's the right time to get covid
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📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
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Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
events.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Reposted by Claire Turner
Why did it have to be snakes?
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why did it have to be snakes?
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
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I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
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New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
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Running a test, and now the parlour smells like the Alton Manor graveyard 🪦
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Running a test, and now the parlour smells like the Alton Manor graveyard 🪦
Interesting to see how entertainment industries are tackling sensory-based sensitivities including intense smells and sounds. @aromaprime.bsky.social doing a great job as always with the various themed smellscapes! Examples from Alton Towers this weekend.
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Interesting to see how entertainment industries are tackling sensory-based sensitivities including intense smells and sounds. @aromaprime.bsky.social doing a great job as always with the various themed smellscapes! Examples from Alton Towers this weekend.
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We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
📅 Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺
Here's to making art! 🌟
(Photos from previous work!)
Here's to making art! 🌟
(Photos from previous work!)
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Tomorrow marks the start of my #Dance Residency with Dance City. I'll be exploring #urban #affect and its impact on the Tourettic body, and considering the value of tics in performance spaces for translating experiences of #TouretteSyndrome! 🕺
Here's to making art! 🌟
(Photos from previous work!)
Here's to making art! 🌟
(Photos from previous work!)
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Welcome to @claireturner.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Affective Experience Lab 🎉
Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!
Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!
Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Introducing Claire Turner: New Bridging Fellow
Read our interview with new Bridging Fellow Claire about her research and interests.
medhumsplatform.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Welcome to @claireturner.bsky.social, who joins us as a Bridging Fellow in the Affective Experience Lab 🎉
Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!
Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
Claire is a historian of medicine and the senses. We're excited to work with her!
Find out about Claire's research in this written interview 👇
medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...
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📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
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An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +
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Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.
This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.
Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39
Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39
BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press
BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.