Dr Anne Hanley
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Dr Anne Hanley
@drannehanley.bsky.social
#Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
I greatly enjoyed filming for this series. If you want to know which notorious gangster lived with #syphilis for many years, check out #OriginalGangsters with Sean Bean.

Starts Tuesday 4 November 9pm on Sky HISTORY. (Catchup afterwards on Now TV and Apple TV+)
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Don't forget to register by 2 June for our hybrid workshop, #SexualHealth: Past Present and Future, at the #UniversityofBirmingham on 2-3 July.

All welcome but registration essential!

#histsex #histmed #medhums #HIV
Registration is open for our workshop, #SexualHealth: Past Present and Future, at #UniversityofBirmingham. Join us in person or online. For those joining in person, delicious lunch will be provided. Registration is free but essential.

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#histsex #histmed #medhums #HIV
May 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Registration is open for our workshop, #SexualHealth: Past Present and Future, at #UniversityofBirmingham. Join us in person or online. For those joining in person, delicious lunch will be provided. Registration is free but essential.

forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ

#histsex #histmed #medhums #HIV
March 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Don't forget to submit your abstracts for 'Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future' by Friday (14 February).

♥️♥️ What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day ♥️♥️

#sexualhealth #SRH #GUM #histsex #histmed #medhums
A Happy New Year! And some cheeky promo for the workshop — Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future — that @claireplmartin.bsky.social and I are organising for 2-3 July. Please share widely!

⏰ Deadline for abstracts: Valentine's Day 💋

#histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM
February 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The next OA article from our project, 'Histories of Sexual Health in Britain', is out now — a microhistory about medical harm inflicted on a newborn by a GP who wrongly diagnosed congenital syphilis and the family's very public search for reparation.

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‘We All of Us Make Mistakes’: Medical Negligence in Interwar General Practice
Summary. In August 1920, Dr Lysander Maybury began a course of weekly injections into the longitudinal sinus of newborn Leslie Shewry. Although Maybury tol
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January 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A Happy New Year! And some cheeky promo for the workshop — Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future — that @claireplmartin.bsky.social and I are organising for 2-3 July. Please share widely!

⏰ Deadline for abstracts: Valentine's Day 💋

#histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM
January 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by Dr Anne Hanley
Hello Bluesky! I’m a historian of sexuality, currently working with @drannehanley.bsky.social on the history of #sexualhealth in Britain, 1918-1980. Finally left the hellsite, and looking forward to (re)connecting with people on here!
December 9, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Dr Anne Hanley
Looking for recommendations for memoirs that deal with health and gender (and/or sexuality, disability) that have come out in last couple of years. Updating my masters class syllabus (session/assessment on health narratives) so please let me know if you’ve read a good one recently! #histmed #medhums
November 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Hello to everyone on these sunlit uplands! 👋🏼 I'm a historian working on sexual and #repro health, modern Britain and the medical humanities. Supported by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship, my team are running a 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 inclusive project on #sexualhealth in the twentieth century. #medhums
November 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM