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Rob Ellis
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Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
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cfp Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester 21 July 2026 deadline 15 January royalhistsoc.org/calendar/lif...
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Manchester Metropolitan University | Tuesday 21st July 2026 (Plus, a second reserve day of Wednesday 22nd July, subject to ...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
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A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends
This article develops academic literature on the history of the Hospital League of Friends, using the Halifax League as a case study. The League of Friends of the Halifax Hospitals was one of the f...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026!
Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) &
Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick)
For more details 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives

Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page:
'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context'
Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball
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History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick admin@sshm.org Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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LD Club meets the Heritage Open Day at Pennine Heritage. Thanks to @mctom.bsky.social, Penny and the pottery team for a fun, interesting and inclusive session.
A selection of house modelled in clay. Each one sits on a small wooden board on a table covered in newspaper.
September 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I’ve received another enquiry about the mental health resource kit developed with @suemoffat.bsky.social @nvborderlines.bsky.social. The ‘Bag of Tricks’ was such a great project but I had forgotten about the website we put together. An incentive to write this up! rflight7.wixsite.com/bagoftricks/...
BAG OF TRICKS | Bagoftricks
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September 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - ⏰ extended deadline 8 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 28
Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB

'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
Cover for: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Drumroll please🥁🥁
For announcement of the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2024/5 winning essay!
Congratulations to Charlotte Stobart, studying at University of Manchester @manchstm.bsky.social
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#histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🎉📚 Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by @rehistories.bsky.social

#Inclusion #LearningDisability #Arts #Humanities #OpenAccess #UniversityPress @huddersfielduni.bsky.social
Our newest publication is now available! "In Our Own Words: Creative Approaches to Inclusion through an Arts and Humanities Intellectual Disability Project" by Rob Ellis.
July 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A bit more detail on ‘In Our Own Words’. Not really meant as a detailed academic contribution but it explains our rationale in aligning knowledge taken from the histories of LD with the needs of everyone involved. unipress.hud.ac.uk/news/163/
Author Spotlight - Rob Ellis discusses 'In Our Own Words'
In Our Own Words brings together a collection of essays from a group that became affectionately known as LD (Learning Disability) Club. The project arose from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership …
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July 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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A public history project, a student project, and a co-produced LD project all rolled into one. Primarily a reminder for everyone involved but some insights into what worked for us and some of the ongoing challenges. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...
In Our Own Words
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June 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026
“The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers –  International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world  #2 Theories and P...
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June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Some co-produced art from the final LD club of the year. Inspired by @ionamurphy.bsky.social and input from everyone inc @mctom.bsky.social and @lucyorkate.bsky.social. Might be of interest @roryduplessis.bsky.social
A long piece of white paper is covered with colourful drawings. There are blocks of colour as well as images of buildings, people and trees, to the top right someone has written LD Club 2025.
June 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
Notices
Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…
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May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Exciting news from Jozefien, one of the Research Fellows on the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. More to follow but I’m jealous of a trip that included the former asylum at Amiens.
A three storey brick building with a pitched roof and two lower level wings to either side. To the left are trees in full lead and grassed area with hedges.
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A view of Manchester from MMU’s Oxford Road campus.
To the front are a number of trees in full green leaf. Part of the building (windows framed in orange) can be seen to the right. On the horizon and under cloudy skies are building of different heights and shapes.
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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If you are in Liverpool on Thursday and are interested in how history can help solve the mental health crisis, please come along!
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Henry Cohen History of Medicine Lecture 2025
Rates of mental illness are rising, waiting lists are lengthy and recent BBC programmes have revealed scandalous conditions and abuse at psychiatric facilities. Apart from demanding more funds to supp...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Congrats to @leoniechesworth.bsky.social who has been awarded hugely competitive funding by www.nwcdtp.ac.uk to study towards a PhD. Her focus will be on post war mental health services and she’ll join @manmetuni.bsky.social later this year.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Your semi-regular reminder that registration for this year's conference is currently open!

Get your FREE tickets, and browse our programme, at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/register2025/
May 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The Aliens Act of 1905 created a new type of immigrant to the UK and a new means of controlling them.

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

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Building Britain’s Borders
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May 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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In Göteborg at an event organised by the wonderful Verusca Calabria at the city’s Medical History Museum. Lots of lovely presentations and workshops and a chance to showcase the ‘bag of tricks’, which resulted from a collaboration with the brilliant @suemoffat.bsky.social and New Vic Borderlines
A cloth mat with colourful artwork and the phrase ‘Bag of Tricks’ at the bottom. There are sever items in the mat including an artist’s mode, a pencil and a mini blackbird on to which someone has chalked a smiley face.
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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A quick update on the latest project with @yorkshireccc.bsky.social from @manmetuni.bsky.social undergrad, Jamie. Thanks as ever to Charlotte, the Heritage Manager, the cricket foundation and the club. yorkshireccc.com/news/hidden-...
Hidden Histories exhibition series: Disability League in Yorkshire and the UK - Researcher Reflections - Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire Cricket Heritage is excited to announce our second year partnering with students to research, develop, discover and curate an exhibition centering around underrepresented and marginalised gr...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2
March 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM