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Former theatre sister. OU history graduate. MA and PhD from C2DH University of Luxembourg. Visual culture of facial trauma in WWI. The medical portrait. History of medicine/surgery. Social history.
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Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

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Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people! Weds 25 June 10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online #skystorians

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🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay) #histmed #histstm jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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Gooseberry tart!

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(Call for Papers) Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/06/mede... #histSTM #medhum

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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

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Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? The graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/i...

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Here is a portrait of a facially-injured French soldier from #WWI drawn by the very skilled artist #RaphaelFreida, born #OTD in 1877. He collaborated with #AlbericPont, a dentist who opened one of the first specialist units for facial trauma in Lyon. 23 of Freida’s portraits of these men survive.

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My nautical lino prints have been flying out lately (thank you! 🪸), but my food & drink prints are feeling a bit… neglected. 🍋 oysters, gin, lemons, etc for your kitchen wall! (Plus more) If you’d like to support a small artist, please do share my work. Thank you! sundownerstudio.co.uk

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A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...

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If you're in Freiburg and interested in colonial memory, come take a look at the great work my students have done! This Friday (23rd May, 4.30-7.30pm) at University College Freiburg, we will show the zines they worked on as a final assignment, and everyone is most welcome.

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#OTD 1964, my father’s diary entry. I think the reason I get a mention before all the other farm activities is related to my arrival in the small hours…

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