Dr Victoria Bates
@victoriabates.bsky.social
Historian at University of Bristol, but not representing my employer etc etc etc
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Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals .
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Sensing Spaces: The History of Colour, Art and Care | Royal College of Nursing
Join us for an online talk on the history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals.
www.rcn.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals .
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
My years of research give me the authority to say that the most realistic part of Down Cemetery Road (ep1) is Ruth Wilson's character getting lost while trying to chase someone through an NHS hospital.
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My years of research give me the authority to say that the most realistic part of Down Cemetery Road (ep1) is Ruth Wilson's character getting lost while trying to chase someone through an NHS hospital.
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Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖
Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖
Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!
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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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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...
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📜 #histmed job opportunity in London
The Old Operating Theatre Museum is looking for a Marketing Officer and a Retail Officer.
If you’re creative and passionate about medical history, we’d love to hear from you!
More details here: oldoperatingtheatre.com/vacancies/
If you’re creative and passionate about medical history, we’d love to hear from you!
More details here: oldoperatingtheatre.com/vacancies/
September 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
📜 #histmed job opportunity in London
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'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2
Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK
Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2
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Very excited to be giving a Thackray Insights lecture on February 7 with the wonderful @victoriabates.bsky.social! Our event is titled 'The Sick Sense', and will centre on the significance of the senses and colour in experiences of illness and recovery.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
September 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very excited to be giving a Thackray Insights lecture on February 7 with the wonderful @victoriabates.bsky.social! Our event is titled 'The Sick Sense', and will centre on the significance of the senses and colour in experiences of illness and recovery.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
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It goes without saying: if you work on literature or other environmental humanities, you're welcome to join us. We have room for 1-2 more. // Por supuesto, invitamos a nuestrxs colegas en literatura y en humanidades del medio ambiente.
Hi! We're putting a panel together for LASA 2026 on minerals and metals in Latin American history. So, if you do mining history, environmental history, riparian/waterway history, or history of science, get in contact!
September 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It goes without saying: if you work on literature or other environmental humanities, you're welcome to join us. We have room for 1-2 more. // Por supuesto, invitamos a nuestrxs colegas en literatura y en humanidades del medio ambiente.
It's in the wild! Thanks @historicalmeredith.bsky.social for bringing it to Berlin.
Very excited to see a hard copy of @victoriabates.bsky.social new book ‘Feeling Blue’ on the MUP stand at #eahmh25 - and in great company too 🤩
August 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's in the wild! Thanks @historicalmeredith.bsky.social for bringing it to Berlin.
Great to be at European Association for the History of Medicine #EAHMH2025 in Berlin this week. Have been busy & terrible at sharing on here, but having a lovely time! First #histmed conference since 2019 as I've been going to health/design stuff instead, and it's so nice to reconnect with people.
@victoriabates.bsky.social and @drhick.bsky.social start the panel pleading for a "more-than-human" approach bringing environmental and medical histories together
August 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great to be at European Association for the History of Medicine #EAHMH2025 in Berlin this week. Have been busy & terrible at sharing on here, but having a lovely time! First #histmed conference since 2019 as I've been going to health/design stuff instead, and it's so nice to reconnect with people.
If you have 2 minutes, please watch this lovely video by @reubenarmstrong.bsky.social based on the book 'Feeling Blue: Colour and the modern British hospital', we released the film today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5L2... (free link to the book in the post below)
August 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you have 2 minutes, please watch this lovely video by @reubenarmstrong.bsky.social based on the book 'Feeling Blue: Colour and the modern British hospital', we released the film today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5L2... (free link to the book in the post below)
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Despite the stereotypes, Bristol Uni is not just for the well-off. The English Dept does great outreach work and, this part-time, evening class, whole-ass degree, should be treated as the jewel in their crown (to upend a metaphorical hierarchy!)
Please sign the letter.
Please sign the letter.
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
forms.gle
August 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Despite the stereotypes, Bristol Uni is not just for the well-off. The English Dept does great outreach work and, this part-time, evening class, whole-ass degree, should be treated as the jewel in their crown (to upend a metaphorical hierarchy!)
Please sign the letter.
Please sign the letter.
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🥳 The latest book in SSHM’s Social Histories of Medicine series
Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
#histmed
Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
#histmed
Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
August 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🥳 The latest book in SSHM’s Social Histories of Medicine series
Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
#histmed
Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
#histmed
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Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
August 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
'Feeling blue: Colour and the modern British hospital' is out! And it's free online (or a relatively affordable £25 hardback if you prefer print)! Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the research for this, from supporting site visits to reading drafts. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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2) Handbook submitted! So proud to have followed Victoria Bates on this quest! Amber Abrams is an incredible scholar and colleague! A true superwoman! Overall, working with these two women has been incredible and getting to know them has been the best part of the journey. ❤️ bsky.app/profile/vict...
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
2) Handbook submitted! So proud to have followed Victoria Bates on this quest! Amber Abrams is an incredible scholar and colleague! A true superwoman! Overall, working with these two women has been incredible and getting to know them has been the best part of the journey. ❤️ bsky.app/profile/vict...
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Our next 'Think While You Drink' (24 June, 6.30pm, Greenbank, Easton) features Bristol-based writers, @boakandbailey.bsky.social on 20th C pubs in 21st C Bristol & Dafydd Wiliam, Principal Curator, St Fagans on re-building The Vulcan Hotel.
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
Think While You Drink
Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our next 'Think While You Drink' (24 June, 6.30pm, Greenbank, Easton) features Bristol-based writers, @boakandbailey.bsky.social on 20th C pubs in 21st C Bristol & Dafydd Wiliam, Principal Curator, St Fagans on re-building The Vulcan Hotel.
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
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Really enjoyed doing this - my first of a recorded conversation series with UoB academics - have a listen, and join Pam and Kelly at some of the upcoming Think While You Drink events in June and July!
@victoriabates.bsky.social kindly interviewed @kellygcb.bsky.social & I for her new podcast on impact activities at Uni of Bristol. We talk about the ongoing collaboration with Professor Sam Goodman & re-launched series of talks: Think While You Drink
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
Think While You Drink (and beyond!) – School of Humanities: Impact and Engagement
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Really enjoyed doing this - my first of a recorded conversation series with UoB academics - have a listen, and join Pam and Kelly at some of the upcoming Think While You Drink events in June and July!
Reposted by Dr Victoria Bates
@victoriabates.bsky.social kindly interviewed @kellygcb.bsky.social & I for her new podcast on impact activities at Uni of Bristol. We talk about the ongoing collaboration with Professor Sam Goodman & re-launched series of talks: Think While You Drink
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
Think While You Drink (and beyond!) – School of Humanities: Impact and Engagement
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@victoriabates.bsky.social kindly interviewed @kellygcb.bsky.social & I for her new podcast on impact activities at Uni of Bristol. We talk about the ongoing collaboration with Professor Sam Goodman & re-launched series of talks: Think While You Drink
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
humsimpact.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/29/t...
Having a ball today at this creative health methods workshop in Maastricht, enjoying hanging out with the ethnographers and learning so much from them. Thanks to Anna Harris for organising!
May 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Having a ball today at this creative health methods workshop in Maastricht, enjoying hanging out with the ethnographers and learning so much from them. Thanks to Anna Harris for organising!
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Thanks to @kellygcb.bsky.social and @victoriabates.bsky.social for my first introduction to podcast recording. So fun to chat about our Think While You Drink talks series in local pubs and all the other great stuff that we are doing together with Prof Sam Goodman. Link to recording to follow.
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks to @kellygcb.bsky.social and @victoriabates.bsky.social for my first introduction to podcast recording. So fun to chat about our Think While You Drink talks series in local pubs and all the other great stuff that we are doing together with Prof Sam Goodman. Link to recording to follow.
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Want more? 👀
There are two other #SocialHistoriesofMedicine books coming out this summer!
UNHAPPY MOTHERS by @sarahcrook.bsky.social
FEELING BLUE by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Stay tuned for their release on manchesterhive.com 🐝
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
There are two other #SocialHistoriesofMedicine books coming out this summer!
UNHAPPY MOTHERS by @sarahcrook.bsky.social
FEELING BLUE by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Stay tuned for their release on manchesterhive.com 🐝
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
May 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Want more? 👀
There are two other #SocialHistoriesofMedicine books coming out this summer!
UNHAPPY MOTHERS by @sarahcrook.bsky.social
FEELING BLUE by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Stay tuned for their release on manchesterhive.com 🐝
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
There are two other #SocialHistoriesofMedicine books coming out this summer!
UNHAPPY MOTHERS by @sarahcrook.bsky.social
FEELING BLUE by @victoriabates.bsky.social
Stay tuned for their release on manchesterhive.com 🐝
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed