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Barry Doyle
@profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
Sorting books to sell. Got to this. Very reluctant to let it go even if I’ll never make use of it again! (Also it’s in good condition somehow 🧐)
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m delighted to say that my 1st article on healthcare in West Africa has been published today in Historia Hospitalium. Thanks to Axel von Huntelmann & Fritz Dross for inviting me to take part in the SI. Afraid it isn’t OA but let me know if you’d like a copy

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Who’s your favourite Womble? 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m dealing with both by walks in the hills!
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Save the Dates in your planners!
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.

Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social

Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Nice to see this in a solid copy to accompany its open access version @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social Thanks to the editors Romain Fathi and Melanie Oppenheimer for sorting it.
July 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Continuing the local theme “enjoy cold on Fyn and other fine places’!
July 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
July 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Tonight I’m back in England at #GlasshouseInternational Gateshead to see @Spellsongs Let the Light In. Looking forward to it v much!
May 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ocelot’s Spleen, Badgers’ Noses!
May 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Me with AJP Taylor in Salamanca? Apparently not - but Gonzalo Torrente Ballester en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo...
May 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Shombody shay port wine tour 🍷 🥴
May 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today in our tour of Al Andalus we are at the Mesquita in Cordoba.
May 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Sssshh, Secret Squirrel! 🐿️ (younger viewers might want to look that up!)
April 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Think I’ve discovered what happened to the power in Spain and Portugal!
April 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Fancy fast train to Granada 💃
April 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Hello Madrid! Holiday started properly now! 🍺 🍷 🌞
April 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sitting outside having coffee and cake in Easingwold, North Yorkshire! I’ve even taken my coat off!
March 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Very springy in Slingsby this morning. 🐇 🌼
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
With his blond highlights it’s looking increasingly like Alfie Hairbeary! #BthvGlo @bathrugby.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Kinsky Palace in Old Town Square, Prague and a bit of Czech history/myth from Milan Kundera
March 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Shoulda gone to SpecSavers! 🤓
March 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Arrived in Prague for tomorrow’s @eurohealthhist.bsky.social event on Architecture and Space. I’m leading a session on Hospitals and/versus Health Centres in the early 20th century.
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Met another hero today in Edinburgh! #Paddington
March 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
At the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for the Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Attwell Much Ado About Nothing 🎭
March 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM