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We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
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Another seminar for your diaries: on 9 December we are welcoming Dr Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social for a talk on the multiple lives of modern mycobacteria.
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CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025
Dr Angela Cassidy
From shared to separated health - and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Another seminar for your diaries: on 9 December we are welcoming Dr Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social for a talk on the multiple lives of modern mycobacteria.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
Another seminar date for your diary: we're looking forward to Dr Gemma Cirac Claveras speaking on 25 Nov on Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s.
#HistSTM #EnvHist
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#HistSTM #EnvHist
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CHSTM Research Seminar, 25 November 2025
Dr Gemma Cirac-Claveras
Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Another seminar date for your diary: we're looking forward to Dr Gemma Cirac Claveras speaking on 25 Nov on Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s.
#HistSTM #EnvHist
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#HistSTM #EnvHist
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Our colleague Dr Bonnie Evans (2nd from left) visiting No 10 Downing Street, as part of a group invited to create a more diverse network of advisors.
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our colleague Dr Bonnie Evans (2nd from left) visiting No 10 Downing Street, as part of a group invited to create a more diverse network of advisors.
Next week
If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.
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Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025
The Future of the Autism Concept
Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Next week
Please mark your diaries for an online workshop on the history of glaciology and polar science in Asia. *(Melting) Ice* - 17 Nov 2025. Attendance is free, but please register for the event.
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#histstm #histsci
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#histstm #histsci
Online Workshop: (Melting) Ice. 17 November 2025
Jointly with the JRRI and the MCI: Second event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.
17 November 2025, 2-4:30pm
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October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Please mark your diaries for an online workshop on the history of glaciology and polar science in Asia. *(Melting) Ice* - 17 Nov 2025. Attendance is free, but please register for the event.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/1...
#histstm #histsci
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#histstm #histsci
Congratulations to Peter Eveleigh, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the democratisation of private flight this morning. Also in the picture: thesis supervisor Simone Turchetti and examiners Robert Naylor and Alan D. Meyer.
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations to Peter Eveleigh, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the democratisation of private flight this morning. Also in the picture: thesis supervisor Simone Turchetti and examiners Robert Naylor and Alan D. Meyer.
Tomorrow
The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025
Dr Alan D. Meyer
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tomorrow
If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025
The Future of the Autism Concept
Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Reminder: next Tuesday!
The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025
Dr Alan D. Meyer
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Reminder: next Tuesday!
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And again I've got a @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague who has published on it: Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
And again I've got a @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague who has published on it: Dr James Sumner in Nature Reviews Physics.
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
doi.org/10.1038/s422...
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Please follow our @manchstm.bsky.social PhD students, @chstmphds.bsky.social, for updates on the excellent lunchtime-work-in-progress online seminar series they host.
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Please follow our @manchstm.bsky.social PhD students, @chstmphds.bsky.social, for updates on the excellent lunchtime-work-in-progress online seminar series they host.
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I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.
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How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013
This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Or read one of Dr Evans' journal articles on the issue - you can access a list of publications through this link.
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Bonnie Evans
research.manchester.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Or read one of Dr Evans' journal articles on the issue - you can access a list of publications through this link.
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/b...
research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/b...
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Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
CHSTM Research Seminar, 7 October 2025
Dr Alan D. Meyer
Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The new academic year is kicking off! Please join us on 7 October for our first seminar of the semester. Our speaker will be Alan D. Meyer (Auburn University), on Flying While Black: The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0... #HistSTM
Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
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Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum
Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
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Great presentation by @manchstm.bsky.social’s own Krittapak Ngamvaseenont on psychiatrists and psychologists shaping the modern Thai mind in the mid 20th century. #eahmh25
August 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Great presentation by @manchstm.bsky.social’s own Krittapak Ngamvaseenont on psychiatrists and psychologists shaping the modern Thai mind in the mid 20th century. #eahmh25
Reminder: we are welcoming the European Society for the History of Science to Manchester next month, for their Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings from 9 to 12 September 2025.
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ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings, 9-12 September 2025 – European Society for the History of Science
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August 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder: we are welcoming the European Society for the History of Science to Manchester next month, for their Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings from 9 to 12 September 2025.
eshs.org/2025/07/11/e...
eshs.org/2025/07/11/e...
Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.
Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.
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Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.
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Planetary Futures: Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene
Conference, 18-19 September 2025, at the University of Manchester.
Call for Papers
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August 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Conference: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025.
Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Registration is free - please register your interest in attending by Friday 22 August.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century.
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci
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#HistSTM #HistSci
August 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century.
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci
August 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century.
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci
doi.org/10.7765/9781...
#HistSTM #HistSci
New article by CHSTM PhD and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Leah De Quattro:
De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538
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De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538
www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...
Frontiers | Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work
Distressing and harmful birth experiences are the norm even in well-resourced countries, and conventional antenatal education struggles to adequately prepare...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New article by CHSTM PhD and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Leah De Quattro:
De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538
www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...
De Quattro L (2025) Antenatal preparation as care: birth stories and collective learning at work. Front. Glob. Women's Health 6:1592538. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1592538
www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...
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Brandy will be in Manchester on 21 Oct, hosted by @manchstm.bsky.social and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at @manchester.ac.uk. Watch this space (and blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/) for details.
Hello to my #UK friends! My book THE INTERMEDIARIES is out in the UK now and I’ll be there in Oct for a tour—check out this podcast on Neil Denny’s LITTLE ATOMS RADIO!
#transgender #transrights
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#transgender #transrights
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Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries | Little Atoms
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July 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Brandy will be in Manchester on 21 Oct, hosted by @manchstm.bsky.social and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at @manchester.ac.uk. Watch this space (and blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/) for details.
Great to have you here!
I'm spending July and August in Manchester as a visiting scholar at Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. Grateful for the opportunity to pursue my research here.
July 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Great to have you here!