Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
- Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social #online Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time) The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com #histmed
- 📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria #histmed
- SAHMS @histmedsouth.bsky.social update. Event is now online Deadline for proposals now 6 February 👇 #histmed #histSTM
- 📢 UPDATE SAHMS 2026: The event is now ONLINE, on April 9-10. This gives us the opportunity to showcase scholars who could not have been able to make the trip otherwise. CFP is BACK ON! Please consider submitting an abstract: sahms.wildapricot.org/submit Questions: sahmsconference@gmail.com
- Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven) This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities. #histmed
- @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social online event The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses with @monicamedhist.bsky.social 13 January 5:00pm (CET) #histmed
- As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026…… A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026) Deadline for abstracts: 11 January
- SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed 🏆£500 first prize Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025). For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇 #histmed
- Still time for mid-career SSHM members to sign up for the Wellcome funded Online Writing Retreat - deadline 17 December 📝💻
- ✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT This event is for SSHM members. To sign up and for more details see website Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) #histmed
- ✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT This event is for SSHM members. To sign up and for more details see website Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) #histmed
- 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 👇
- New Wellcome report examines how archives, manuscripts and material culture are currently used in life, health and wellbeing research, identifying 15 recommendations to enhance methodological innovation and cross-disciplinary experimentation. #histmed #medhumanities
- From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place. But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it. Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
- 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 @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist
- Physician's gallery @rcpedin.bsky.social new permanent gallery and learning centre that explores relationship with health, medicine and our bodies. Over 50 objects, manuscripts and books on display, sharing stories from medieval medicine to modern day treatments. Free and open to all #histmed
- Sharing forthcoming @roysocmed.bsky.social events (in person and online). Just search 'medicine' on the events page to find out more about these events in January and February and others www.rsm.ac.uk/events/ Please note fees may apply. #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
- Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award. @wellcometrust.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
- Black Cultural Archives have created a timeline, “Medicine, Race, and Activism,” in partnership with Royal Holloway, celebrating Black contributions to British healthcare, spotlighting the health workers, patients, & campaigners who challenged medical racism. #histmed
- CFPs History of Health in the Maghreb The organizers invite submissions for a workshop on the history of public health in the Maghreb region, to be hosted by the University of Maryland. #histmed #medhumanities
- The Royal Society of Medicine (London, UK) is hosting the Sarah Hughes Memorial Lecture: The power of 8: Understanding our senses for safety, regulation, and learning 📅Fri 5 Dec 2025 🕰️6:00pm – 8:00pm GMT Location: Royal Society of Medicine and online (charge applies) www.rsm.ac.uk/events/histo...
- 20 years! Happy anniversary to the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Join them on Weds 29 October for two public lectures #histmed
- Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed
- 📣New Issue Alert📣 Volume 38 Issue 3 of Social History of Medicine is now available online! with 12 original research articles (7 of which are #OpenAccess) plus #histmed book reviews
- The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/
- Fascinated by health and wellbeing? So were our medieval ancestors. Curious Cures exhibition brings together texts, diagrams and case-notes from special collections cared for by Cambridge University Library #histmed
- Sign up now for our AGM next week and stay for the SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history. Oct 6th 4-5.30pm BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agm-the-ss... #histmed #histSTM
- Check out the calls for papers on our website with abstract deadlines throughout the month. sshm.org/portfolio/up...
- Call for papers for the Womens HistoryNetwork Seminar Series. Deadline is the 10th November, email submissions to seminars@womenshistorynetwork.org
- The deadline is today! Get those applications in asap #histmed
- Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October. sshm.org/conference-f...
- Deadline approaching! Are you organising a #histmed conference or workshop in 2026? Applications for SSHM Conference funding awards close 1 October. sshm.org/conference-f...
- CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
- The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM
- 📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇 #histmed
- 👋Hello EAHMH - @eahmh.bsky.social Welcome to #histmed community on Bluesky Wishing you a great conference #eahmh25
- Programme for @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social Medical Education in Europe conference has been released 21-22 October 2025 (Hybrid) Registration open to attend in person at Domus Comeliana or online #histmed
- 📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed
- 🥳 The latest book in SSHM’s Social Histories of Medicine series Feeling Blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social #histmed
- SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence @britishacademy.bsky.social seeks engagement with individuals & organisations with expertise on the core public policy areas of focus identified in Covid Decade as being key for successful social and economic recovery: one being Health and wellbeing More info 👇
- ✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨ #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
- A new edition to SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine Series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Also available #OpenAccess @sarahcrook.bsky.social Unhappy Mothers: women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain #histmed #medhumanities
- Catch up on the latest #histmed conference reports written by SSHM members on our Blog page. SSHM as a charity supports global conferences through its funding. The next deadline for conference funding applications is 1 October sshm.org/conference-f...
- Online talk by Vivek Neelakantan at Institute for Chinese Studies, Delhi “The Monsoon Asia of Geographers”: The Cold War Beginnings of the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO), 1948-60 📅Weds 23 July 💻Online via Zoom 🕰️3pm IST (10.30am UK time, 11.30 am CET)
- Following announcement of the Roy Porter Essay Competition winner, two entrants have also been awarded Commended for their essays: Congratulations to Elena Danieli (Università di Bologna and Université Paris Cité) and Zhilin Chu (University of Cambridge) #histmed @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (1/2)
- 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 (1/2) #histmed #histSTM @rebeccawynter.bsky.social
- The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh @rcpedin.bsky.social has launched a digitised and transcribed collection of 18th century case notes of Edinburgh Public Dispensary. Over 10,000 pages of records offering details of the diseases, treatments and experiences of patients in 1700s. #histmed
- 📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
