Janet Weston
@janetweston.bsky.social
Historian in London for money (histories of modern British health, mental illness, law, and such: I wrote a book called 'Looking after Miss Alexander').
Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, likes both cats *and* dogs.
Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, likes both cats *and* dogs.
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Join us for our next seminar on Thursday 20 November, when Hohee Cho will be talking about intercolonial medical institutions in the Pacific Islands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Details below:
Location: Keppel St. (LG81), Hybrid
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: Keppel St. (LG81), Hybrid
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Intercolonial health institutions in the Pacific Islands | LSHTM
This presentation examines the formation and development of intercolonial medical institutions in the Pacific Islands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its target audience is student and
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Join us for our next seminar on Thursday 20 November, when Hohee Cho will be talking about intercolonial medical institutions in the Pacific Islands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Details below:
Location: Keppel St. (LG81), Hybrid
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: Keppel St. (LG81), Hybrid
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
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Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 27 October and Sunday 9 November 2025.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Some of our Reading Rooms will be closed between 27 October and 9 November due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site, and there may be other short notice disruption.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
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📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
~ 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...
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We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!)
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
July 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!)
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
open letter published today on Gaza - initiated by fantastic colleagues at LSHTM:
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action
For nearly 20 months, since October 2023, Palestinians in Gaza have endured a relentless campaign of annihilation. The statistics alone defy comprehension: over 56 000 people killed—one third of them ...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
open letter published today on Gaza - initiated by fantastic colleagues at LSHTM:
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨
#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!
Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.
#HistSTM
#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!
Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.
#HistSTM
Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM
Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM
www.lshtm.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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So many true crime podcasts out there and this is the one I actually want
imagine being loved and accepted for who you are like this wow
May 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So many true crime podcasts out there and this is the one I actually want
Next week: join us!
Join us for our next CHIPH seminar on Tuesday 8th April, when Dr Manikarnika Dutta will be talking about British seamen and tropical medicine in the 1800s. Details and event listings (inc. Zoom link) are below:
Location: G40, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: G40, Keppel St.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
British naval surgeons and tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century |
This presentation explores how the treatment of British seamen aided the development of tropical hygiene in the long nineteenth century. The paper will be of interest to staff and students who want to
www.lshtm.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Next week: join us!
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History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
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Delighted to have been invited to share my doctoral research at the LSHTM Centre for Public Health Seminar tomorrow. Join online if you can make it.
⏰ 12.45 (UK time)
🗓️ 5th February 2025
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
⏰ 12.45 (UK time)
🗓️ 5th February 2025
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
In pursuit of justice and wellness: Aboriginal health activism as resistance in
This presentation explores the development of grassroots Aboriginal Medical Services in late twentieth century Indigenous Australia. Created by and for the community in 1971, these Aboriginal Medical
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February 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Delighted to have been invited to share my doctoral research at the LSHTM Centre for Public Health Seminar tomorrow. Join online if you can make it.
⏰ 12.45 (UK time)
🗓️ 5th February 2025
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
⏰ 12.45 (UK time)
🗓️ 5th February 2025
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
might adopt 'avoiding mould, pneumonia and capitalism' as my mantra for 2025
The 12v electronics in my are out of action taking the underfloor heater with it for six weeks, with wet tree planting stuff in there. It got dangerously damp.
Avoiding mold, pneumonia, and capitalism, I borrowed a dehumidifier from the Bath Library of Things. £1.07 for one day. Sorted!
Avoiding mold, pneumonia, and capitalism, I borrowed a dehumidifier from the Bath Library of Things. £1.07 for one day. Sorted!
January 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
might adopt 'avoiding mould, pneumonia and capitalism' as my mantra for 2025
Spring. It's a-comin
January 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Spring. It's a-comin
Tuesday 28 Jan is a big day for great seminars online:
The IHR History of Sexuality seminar is at 17.30 GMT with Dr Samuel Vermote: ‘A Sterile Syringe, a Book, and a Towel to Lie On: The History of Lesbian Motherhood and Donor Insemination in England throughout the 1970s and 1980s’ #histsex
The IHR History of Sexuality seminar is at 17.30 GMT with Dr Samuel Vermote: ‘A Sterile Syringe, a Book, and a Towel to Lie On: The History of Lesbian Motherhood and Donor Insemination in England throughout the 1970s and 1980s’ #histsex
January 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tuesday 28 Jan is a big day for great seminars online:
The IHR History of Sexuality seminar is at 17.30 GMT with Dr Samuel Vermote: ‘A Sterile Syringe, a Book, and a Towel to Lie On: The History of Lesbian Motherhood and Donor Insemination in England throughout the 1970s and 1980s’ #histsex
The IHR History of Sexuality seminar is at 17.30 GMT with Dr Samuel Vermote: ‘A Sterile Syringe, a Book, and a Towel to Lie On: The History of Lesbian Motherhood and Donor Insemination in England throughout the 1970s and 1980s’ #histsex
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NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE
* getting locked in the office by mistake and having to stay there all night
* missing a huge funding deadline by jotting down 21 Feb instead of 12 Feb
* "we couldn't find any results for your search 'book draft final'"
* redundancies, dept closures, job losses
* getting invited to parties
* missing a huge funding deadline by jotting down 21 Feb instead of 12 Feb
* "we couldn't find any results for your search 'book draft final'"
* redundancies, dept closures, job losses
* getting invited to parties
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
* getting locked in the office by mistake and having to stay there all night
* missing a huge funding deadline by jotting down 21 Feb instead of 12 Feb
* "we couldn't find any results for your search 'book draft final'"
* redundancies, dept closures, job losses
* getting invited to parties
* missing a huge funding deadline by jotting down 21 Feb instead of 12 Feb
* "we couldn't find any results for your search 'book draft final'"
* redundancies, dept closures, job losses
* getting invited to parties
Deadline incoming for the SHS annual conference at the Black Country Living Museum...
📢You have less than a week to make a paper or panel submission to our 2025 conference!
⏰Apply by 17 January!
socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
⏰Apply by 17 January!
socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
socialhistory.org.uk
January 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Deadline incoming for the SHS annual conference at the Black Country Living Museum...
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My favourite account over here so far. The mushrooms, they're always nice. Perfect content. 🍄
January 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My favourite account over here so far. The mushrooms, they're always nice. Perfect content. 🍄
Envious of whoever gets this job: what a great project
Come and work on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project about the history of ‘hurt feelings’ & the law with @katieebarclay.bsky.social Alice Krzanich and me! We’re looking for a historian of medicine (or similar) for a 4 yr postdoctoral research fellow position elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...
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January 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Envious of whoever gets this job: what a great project