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Dr Laura Smith
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Interested in Late Antiquity, asceticism, gender and sexuality.
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Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors.

Our new exhibition, Curious Cures, takes us back hundreds of years to a world of ritual healing and herbal recipes, stargazing, and surgery.

🔗Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/kVqsPRY

#CuriousCures
Social media graphic with information for the forthcoming Curious Cures exhibition at Cambridge University Library. We see the event logo and a medieval image of a ill man being examined by a doctor.
March 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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theul.bsky.social
Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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imc-leeds.bsky.social
It's been less than a week since #IMC2025 finished and already our #IMC2026 Padlet page is being filled with so many Call for Papers.😁

Visit the link tinyurl.com/IMC2026Padle... to view sessions and roundtables which want your abstracts! 🎉

Email us your CfP's at imc@leeds.ac.uk

#Medievalsky
July 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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OPPORTUNITY 📯

Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!

Deadline: 3 September 2025

More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the three historic collections of Durham — those held by Durham University, Durham Cathedral and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, all of which have internationally significant collections of books and other materials that deserve to be brought to a wider scholarly and public audience. In addition to libraries this includes archives, collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets.
July 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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womenshistscot.bsky.social
📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!

🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Please share widely!
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
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May 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Our #siteoftheweek is Atlomy. This is an open access atlas and lexicon of Greco-Roman anatomical ideas, terminology and research. The team studies ancient texts by combining historical and philological analysis with empirical research and high-quality digital and visual design.
ATLOMY
Discover ancient human anatomies with ATLOMY’s scientific 3D interactive atlas and lexicon.
www.atlomy.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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womenshistscot.bsky.social
📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝

Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out!

🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

#WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding
WHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland
womenshistoryscotland.org
May 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social
We will soon be introducing you to the first acquisitions of 2025, but first here is an overview of our most important heritage acquisitions of the past year. bib.kuleuven.be/english/spec...
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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remedhe.bsky.social
Nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize!
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
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February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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We're meeting for a #WCCWiki #Wikipedia editing session this Friday 21 Feb, 12.00-14.00 GMT. You're welcome to join us online!

Join Zoom Meeting
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For more info on #WCCWiki, see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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February 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Heads up #ancientsky and please RS:

ReMeDHe is accepting nominations for the Heidi Marx Prize for the best article published in the last 3 years on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean

Deadline is firm at March 1

Details here:
www.remedhe.com/the-heidi-ma...
The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
www.remedhe.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM