Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850"

Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social)

Has now been published by @academic.oup.com

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A multidisciplinary summer school that brings together perspectives from the life and natural sciences and the humanities to re-examine the multifaceted nature of fever.
Deadline: 14 June 2026
#histmed #medhumanities

For more details 👇
www.marsilius-kolleg.uni-heidelberg.de/de/studium/i...

“As they waited for the winds … dysentery and other infections picked up in Batavia spread easily … Macartney began a list of those who had died or run away in his notebook, but his writing got smaller and smaller until he ran out of space … More men died than had in all the earlier storms.”

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

joanneedge.co.uk

More than thrilled to have been awarded a Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellowship 2025-26 and be going to visit Oxford next spring! Look forward to uncovering more relics of fever in the #Bodleian, and meeting with friends old and new 😎

Our FEVER Workshop wrapped up on Friday — what a pleasure and privilege it was! Huge thanks to all who joined us, and especially to our wonderful speakers, including Kevin Siena, @wraggem.bsky.social, Chris Hamlin, Margaret DeLacy, and Ricardo Cabral de Freitas.

We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Heidelberg next week and hearing your talk, dear Alex!
And if anyone interested on the history of fevers would like to join us (in person!) in Heidelberg on the 10 and 11 of July, do register at: [email protected].

A reminder that this fab conference is coming up on June 4th in Cambridge, with not one but two keynotes from myself and the brilliant Sussan Babaei. I'm talking about the smells of ink, printing, and advertising: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567...

Finally!

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of Galileo’s Fame!

The @upittpress.bsky.social has done an amazing job with the design, showcasing a stunning seventeenth-century depiction of the goddess Fama.

I can’t wait to hold the book in my hands in just a few months.

Nothing more therapeutic than returning to the archive but with new sorts of curiosity promising some fresh insights. First remark: c19 handwriting is truly another world to explore 🤓 #TheNationalArchives

More and more friends and colleagues are joining, so I quickly made a little starter pack.

For those ‘Didn’t know you’re here too!’ occasions.

Please suggest more!

#HistSci #HistMed 🗃️ #EarlyModern #c18 #c19

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Friends in Oxford and online, in case of your interest, I’ll give an online talk tomorrow at 5pm GMT on pulse diagnosis between early modern China and Europe. The event will be hybrid, both at 58a Banbury Road Oxford and on Teams. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

🔬How did artists and scientific practitioners visualize their work in the early modern period? That’s the main question behind the online exhibition of rare books curated by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, @ariellaminden.bsky.social and Leendert van der Miesen.
🔗https://rarebooks.biblhertz.it

My article on C18th/19th experiences of lightning at sea is out with Transactions.

This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.)

TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended!

#histmed #histSTM
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It’s happening today ✨ looking forward to another deep dive into Simon Forman and Richard Napier’s world of magic and medicine!