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📣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
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July 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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.
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wellcometrust.bsky.social Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · Nov 18
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...
Archives, manuscripts and material culture in health and wellbeing research | Reports | Wellcome
Archives, manuscripts and material culture collections hold profound potential for advancing knowledge about life, health and wellbeing. This report examines how these collections are currently used i...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨
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Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)
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August 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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
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kthabitproject.bsky.social Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Day 1 of @milwelfhist.bsky.social event 'War, Trauma and Emotional Injury', supported by a SSHM/Wellcome Network Grant Award.
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milwelfhist.bsky.social Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social · Nov 6
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment.
In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online

📆28 Apr 2026
🕰️16:30 – 18:30
To register 👇
Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 21, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
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sshmedicine.bsky.social Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Dec 18
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
Roy Porter Prize 2025-2026
Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. Downl…
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January 26, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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📣SSHM members 📣
Are you organising a #histmed #medhumanities conference later this year?
A reminder that the next application deadline for conference funding is
1 June 👇
Conference Funding
The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively…
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May 26, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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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
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Manchester University Press - Unhappy mothers
Unhappy mothers - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Unhappy mothers by Sarah Crook
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July 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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📢 Are you an artist with a connection to #MedEd? Get ready, because our fifth call for #CoverArt is launching early next year! 🎨 Whether you’re a #physician, #resident, #medstudent, #premed, or #patient, your art could be featured on our cover. #MedHumanities
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Definitely must follow #histpharma #medhist #healthhumanities #medhumanities
April 14, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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A list of truly exceptional scholars and their accomplishments here. Particularly excited to see Cindi Katz’s lifetime achievement and Kate Derickson & Tish Lopez’s important and inspiring work recognised! Congratulations!!! 🎉
#geosky #urbansky #medhumanities
January 31, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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A workshop for early-career researchers based in the UK on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities
Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project and Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR)
📆29-30 Oct 2026
University of Stirling
Applications by 15 April
Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research
Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...
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March 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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#envhist #medhist #medhumanities
June 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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
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For more details 👇
www.marsilius-kolleg.uni-heidelberg.de/de/studium/i...
A poster advertising a summer school 'Feel the Heat: Science and Histories of Fever', 20-25 September 2026 at International Marsilius Academy, Heidelberg
May 28, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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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.
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Image of a poster with picture of medicine jars on shelves and text 'Representing medicine in the past' Wednesday 4 February 2026 5:30-7.45pm at RSM, London or online. image of a poster showing a treatment room with blue walls containing medical equipment and a radiator. This advertises presentation 'Histories of Medical care in prisons'. Wednesday 14 January 2026 5:30-7:35pm at RSM London or online.
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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.
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Workshop: History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) | H-Net
CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop: History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) Workshop dates: May 5-6, 2026Deadline for submissio...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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New on our #Podcast! Incorporating #Art into #MedEd. 2 cover artists discuss how medicine has shaped their art & how art has shaped how they experience medicine. Listen anywhere podcasts are available. Find the transcript: academicmedicineblog.org/incorporatin.... #MedSky #MedHumanities
July 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Interested in a workshop for early-career UK researchers on challenging Western-centric perspectives in the #medhumanities? Facilitated by Global History of HIV Activism project & NNMHR.

📆 29-30 Oct 2026 | University of Stirling
Apply by 15 May

@npapadogian.bsky.social

nnmh.org.uk/decentring-t...
Decentring the Medical Humanities - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research
Decentring the Medical Humanities: NNMHR (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research) early career workshop Date: Starting on 29 October 2026 at 13.00, and concluding on 30 October at 13.00. Pla...
nnmh.org.uk
March 27, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Read about the Sanford Compassionate #Communication Academy Fellowship, an arts and humanities #fellowship that teaches compassionate communication to clinicians alongside artists: journals.lww.com/academicmedi.... #MedEd #MedHumanities #MedSky
April 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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📣CFPs 📣 Mediating Behaviours Symposium
The National Archives, Kew, London
📆Thurs 2 July 2026
Will be of interest to those interested in social history, queer history and #medhumanities #histmed
Deadline for CPPs is 30 April
claireljones.bsky.social Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · Apr 21
Check out this very interesting CFPs! Relevant to #histmed #histsex
Mediating Behaviours Symposium Call for Papers This one-day symposium will explore manifestations of behavioural mediation enforced through public perceptions, stereotypes, times of crisis and public messaging, propaganda and censorship. This symposium will explore how public messaging and imagery has been used to influence and control the narratives and lived life experiences of individuals, groups, communities and populations. Through its focus on the multitude of ways in which the personal and the communal are influenced, affected, proscribed and suppressed through state, social and culture influences, it will open new discussions on the notions of personal expression, agency and control through history and in the current moment. The symposium will be of particular interest to scholars interested in social history, queer history and the medical humanities. The symposium has a history focus, but we encourage applicants to apply from across range of disciplines to provide varied outlooks on the ways in which the way people present, live, respond and engage with one another. We will showcase a diverse range of subject-matter that explores how forces, institutions and conventions aim to mould and shape human behaviour, but equally how these might be contested, challenged and changed Topics can include but are not limited to: · Propaganda and public messaging · Policing behaviour · Controlled behaviours and responses to crises · Censorship of art, film, literature and print · Mediation of sex, sexuality, gender-expression and sexual relations · Behavioural mediation as racial, sexual or sexual stereotypes and discrimination · Decency and indecency in public space · Notions and fears of social contagion · Etiquette and manners · Making and breaking conventions of language · Colonial laws and indigenous lives · Decolonisation and challenging conventio…
April 24, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Being Human: A new article describes the purpose and design of a unique convention to catalyze the growth of museum-based education for health professionals and summarizes its key outcomes: journals.lww.com/academicmedi.... #MedEd #MedHumanities #MedSky
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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‘Did you ever see the ocean?’

The first humanities (renal reveries) piece in the KICR is up

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Let us know what you think, and submit your own pieces

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Did you ever see the ocean?
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August 13, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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🎨Only a few weeks left in our call for #CoverArt! 🎨🖼️ Whether you’re a #physician, #resident, #medstudent, #premed, or #patient, your art could be featured on our cover. Don't miss your chance to submit by March 16! https://bit.ly/4qFJuVB. #MedHumanities #MedEd #MedSky
Call for Cover Art: Open January 12 to March 16, 2026
Academic Medicine's 2026 call for submissions for the Cover Art feature will launch on January 12, 2026 and close March 16, 2026!
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February 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM