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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
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We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism.
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Medicine, Race and Activism - Black Cultural Archives.
This timeline focuses on the contribution of Black people to the British healthcare ecosystem over centuries. It underscores the experiences of these workers and Black service users and recognises the...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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ihr.bsky.social
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci
Jobs
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September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo!

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Buffalo 2026
Join us in Buffalo! Call for Papers 2026   The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) (https://histmed.org) invites abstracts for papers in any area of the history of health, healing,...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @eahmh.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social

Just a few weeks to go until the second event in our conference series. We very much look forward to it #histmed #trauma #milwelfhist
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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slagstadk.bsky.social
Hast du im Jahr 2024 oder 2025 einen medizinhistorischen Artikel veröffentlicht? Dann bewirb dich bis zum 28. Februar 2026 für den Förderpreis des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte. #histmed fachverband-medizingeschichte.de/foerderpreis/
Förderpreis – Fachverband Medizingeschichte e.V.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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johnmaiden.bsky.social
Our first @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar of the year is 15 October at 17.30 UK time. Our speaker is @alephross.bsky.social .

To book:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Skystorians #history @hannahelias.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @graceheaton.bsky.social
Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body
This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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cermes3.bsky.social
🔜 Soutenance de thèse de doctorat en sciences, techniques et sociétés de Celia Mir Alvarez "Building public health inaction. The chase for air quality data in Morocco"
🗓️ 16 octobre 2025
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October 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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cermes3.bsky.social
📚 Journées d’étude « La culture psychologique : actualités d’un concept »
Comment les savoirs psy façonnent-ils nos sociétés ?
📅 18–19 nov. 2025 – Campus Condorcet
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October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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eseh.bsky.social
Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!
tanjariekkinen.bsky.social Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · Sep 12
Call for Applications

The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

Please find the more detailed call text attached.
October 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

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Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST

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AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene
Notes from the trash-heap of medical history focuses on everyday technologies of health and medicine in the 20th century.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
It's here! Sign up for History Day 4 Nov 2025. #HistDay25 Together with @senatehouselib.bsky.social we are celebrating all things history with collections from galleries, libraries, archives, museums & more. Find out what it's all about and book your free spot. www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
History Day
History Day and the History Day: Discover Collections website bring together researchers and collections in-person and online
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September 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October.
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Conference Funding
The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively awar…
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September 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

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Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...
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September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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

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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Latin America's regional environmental history conference, SOLCHA, took place in July this year in lovely Rio de Janeiro. Read the report by ICEHO President Claudia Leal on our website! And take note: in 2027, SOLCHA will take place in Mendoza, Argentina.

#envhist #historiaambiental
Alive and Kicking: Solcha's 12th Symposium — ICEHO
The 12th symposium of SOLCHA in Rio de Janeiro, 2025, was a huge success boding well for the future of environmental history in Latin America.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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ihr.bsky.social
🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!

Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.

Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY
September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

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#envhist #archives
Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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aseh.bsky.social
Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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ubuffalohistory.bsky.social
New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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envhistnow.bsky.social
A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week: envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e... #envhist #envhum
EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective
A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and t…
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September 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM