Dr Hannah Blythe
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
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Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social:
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)
30 January 2026 deadline!
History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26
All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career...
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History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26
All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career...
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Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences
Credit: A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
www.histhum.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)
Sounds like a great idea to make use of these wonderful rooms
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Sounds like a great idea to make use of these wonderful rooms
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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
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
a black and white alarm clock shows that it is almost 5:00
Alt: a black and white alarm clock counting down
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January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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
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
So useful!
If someone earned 50 shillings a week 100 years ago, was that... good or bad?
Our handy guide 'What could you buy with a working class wage?', c.1900s-1920s, may be able to help!
Explore examples of weekly budgets, ads for consumer goods and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Our handy guide 'What could you buy with a working class wage?', c.1900s-1920s, may be able to help!
Explore examples of weekly budgets, ads for consumer goods and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
So useful!
Reposted by Dr Hannah Blythe
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
It's advent, so here's a blog I wrote last year about how NHS hospitals have used charity to observe Christmas @bharchives.bsky.social
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
Essential Comforts | Blogs from the Archives-Barts Health NHS Trust
Christmas Charity in the Early NHS
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It's advent, so here's a blog I wrote last year about how NHS hospitals have used charity to observe Christmas @bharchives.bsky.social
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles.
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Here’s our co-authored Intro:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Here’s our co-authored Intro:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles.
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Here’s our co-authored Intro:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Here’s our co-authored Intro:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social:
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Latest writing, with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social. Intro to our special issue of @histhum.bsky.social:
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Dr Hannah Blythe
Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!
The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.
Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.
Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Applications are now open for our 2026 International Medical Humanities PhD Summer School!
The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.
Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
The Summer School is held jointly with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at @liu.se.
Apply by 16 February 2026 👉 tinyurl.com/Phd-summer-s...
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/...
Reposted by Dr Hannah Blythe
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue 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 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The cost of living in London (six years ago) was the primary reason I did not do my PhD in London. Even with a stipend more generous than the UKRI’s, it would have been financially a ludicrous, practically unviable, decision. PhD students need to be treated and paid like independent adults
'Drawing attention to the diminished real-terms value of the London weighting set by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – which has remained at £2,000 a year since at least 2006 – students’ unions...have called on the funder to massively increase the allowance'.
Increase London PhD allowance by £2,500, UKRI urged
Decades-long freeze on London weighting is making PhD study unaffordable despite recent record stipend increase, student groups warn
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The cost of living in London (six years ago) was the primary reason I did not do my PhD in London. Even with a stipend more generous than the UKRI’s, it would have been financially a ludicrous, practically unviable, decision. PhD students need to be treated and paid like independent adults
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Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
@re-histories.bsky.social
#DisHist
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
sshm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Thanks @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
@mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.
@mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGY: Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare, edited by Mikkel Kenni Bruun and Rebecca Hutten @rhutten.bsky.social has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3VhGHV7
#Anthropology #MedicalAnthropology
Find out more here: bit.ly/3VhGHV7
#Anthropology #MedicalAnthropology
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thanks @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
@mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.
@mkbruun.bsky.social and I are of course delighted to see it out in the world.
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Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday 6 October!
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~ Public Health Humanities Toolkit ~
Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!)
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!)
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Public Health Humanities | LSHTM
Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice.
www.lshtm.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
~ Public Health Humanities Toolkit ~
Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!)
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Are you a researcher / educator / practitioner with overlapping interests in public health, and the arts/humanities/social sciences? Have a look at our call for proposals (non-text based modes of presentation very welcome!)
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Reposted by Dr Hannah Blythe
Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences!
Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been...
Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been...
Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences!
Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been...
Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been...
Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Is there some unspoken university policy where job rejection emails are sent late on a Friday afternoon, just as you’re trying to wind down and enjoy the weekend? Like guys, it’s miserable enough without you raining on my little Friday parade. Let me enjoy my ignorance for a few days.
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Is there some unspoken university policy where job rejection emails are sent late on a Friday afternoon, just as you’re trying to wind down and enjoy the weekend? Like guys, it’s miserable enough without you raining on my little Friday parade. Let me enjoy my ignorance for a few days.
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🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now:
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 - Ulrich Koch, 2025
This article uses the early history of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a lens to draw out the epistemic and ethical-political stakes of rehabilitation ...
journals.sagepub.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now:
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory - Rachael I. Rosner, 2025
This article offers historical context for psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck's creation of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely celebrated patient-rated ...
journals.sagepub.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
We have a Human geography PhD place available via an AHRC studentship.
Fast deadline May 29th, 2025!
A wonderful project on the Art in Healthcare collection -supervised by Cheryl McGeachan and myself
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fast deadline May 29th, 2025!
A wonderful project on the Art in Healthcare collection -supervised by Cheryl McGeachan and myself
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD in Human Geography - Where have you been? Exploring the historical geographies of The Art in Healthcare Collection at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Human Geography - Where have you been? Exploring the historical geographies of The Art in Healthcare Collection at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Join us for the next CHIPH seminar (in collab. with @psglshtm.bsky.social) on Thursday 15 May, when Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will be discussing state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico. Details below:
Location: G24, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: G24, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
State-sponsored population control programmes: A new ph(f)ace of eugenics in
In this seminar, Dr. Sánchez-Rivera discusses the changeover from eugenics to population control programs and capitalist ventures during the second half of the 20th Century in Mexico. Special
www.lshtm.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Join us for the next CHIPH seminar (in collab. with @psglshtm.bsky.social) on Thursday 15 May, when Dr. Rachell Sánchez-Rivera will be discussing state-sponsored population control in 20th century Mexico. Details below:
Location: G24, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: G24, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...