Heather Ellis
@heatherellis.bsky.social
Canadian historian of gender, medicine, and trauma | Learning Specialist | Collector of books and cats
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Heather Ellis
@heatherellis.bsky.social
· Nov 11
👋🏻 hello new friends!! I am currently finishing my PhD in history at Western University. My dissertation explores the lived experiences of Canadian shell-shocked veterans and their families. I am in the final stages of writing and will be submitting soon!
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I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...
No Right to Return or Remain: French Colonial Soldiers and Discriminatory Demobilization
This post explores experiences of veterancy for those who had served in France’s colonial Forces.
returningsoldier.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I wrote this short blog on the discriminatory demobilisation of French colonial troops for the Returning Soldier network: returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/n...
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An important advisory from AAUP. The advisory contains information for immediate support, tips for engaging with social media, and online digital tools. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
An important advisory from AAUP. The advisory contains information for immediate support, tips for engaging with social media, and online digital tools. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
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This ticks so many rightwing boxes: not only do we get to pathologize disability but we get to blame women for mismanaging their bodies during pregnancy.
WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.
Exclusive | RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies
Kennedy’s autism report, touted by Trump, will suggest that using the pain reliever during pregnancy may be linked to the developmental disorder.
www.wsj.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This ticks so many rightwing boxes: not only do we get to pathologize disability but we get to blame women for mismanaging their bodies during pregnancy.
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100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/06/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/06/m...
Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s Viral Legacy
100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.
thepolyphony.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/06/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/06/m...
One more week until we’re back at the cottage 🌅
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
One more week until we’re back at the cottage 🌅
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I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.
July 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.
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Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors!
We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.
Please share widely!
We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.
Please share widely!
July 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors!
We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.
Please share widely!
We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.
Please share widely!
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"C'est une véritable vie de village" : de l'asile pour aliénés à l'hôpital psychiatrique, l'histoire tumultueuse de l'établissement Philippe-Pinel share.google/SFE6tAhFMG4t...
"C'est une véritable vie de village" : de l'asile pour aliénés à l'hôpital psychiatrique, l'histoire tumultueuse de l'établissement Philippe-Pinel
L'Établissement public de santé mentale (EPSM) de la Somme, anciennement centre hospitalier Philippe-Pinel à Amiens, est désormais classé au titre des monuments historiques. Construit au XIXᵉ siècle, ...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"C'est une véritable vie de village" : de l'asile pour aliénés à l'hôpital psychiatrique, l'histoire tumultueuse de l'établissement Philippe-Pinel share.google/SFE6tAhFMG4t...
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📢📢📢 We’re looking for scholars who could write pieces on the following topics: RFK and miasma, the potential legislation of asbestos, and the backlash against sunscreen. Preferably for Clio ER. #histmed Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
📢📢📢 We’re looking for scholars who could write pieces on the following topics: RFK and miasma, the potential legislation of asbestos, and the backlash against sunscreen. Preferably for Clio ER. #histmed Please share widely! nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
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🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
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Many nursing students at Johns Hopkins cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic of 1980s and 90s. Poems, like this one from the Summer 1992 Nurses Alumnae Magazine, illuminate the emotional experience of caring for and befriending patients who are terminally ill.
National #Poetry Month
National #Poetry Month
April 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Many nursing students at Johns Hopkins cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic of 1980s and 90s. Poems, like this one from the Summer 1992 Nurses Alumnae Magazine, illuminate the emotional experience of caring for and befriending patients who are terminally ill.
National #Poetry Month
National #Poetry Month
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The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
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We're ridiculously excited to have acquired the archive of surgeon Helen McMillan, who became our third female Fellow in 1921. Her collection is a #WomenInSurgery treasure trove of photographs, letters, diaries & artwork. Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay!
March 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We're ridiculously excited to have acquired the archive of surgeon Helen McMillan, who became our third female Fellow in 1921. Her collection is a #WomenInSurgery treasure trove of photographs, letters, diaries & artwork. Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay!
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📚📚📚 Do you like free books? We want to give them to you! Our team is currently looking for folks to write a review or an author interview for Abortion Stories and Abortion: History. You can DM this account or @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
📚📚📚 Do you like free books? We want to give them to you! Our team is currently looking for folks to write a review or an author interview for Abortion Stories and Abortion: History. You can DM this account or @sarahbelle721.bsky.social
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Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
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Join us on Thursday, February 6th at 10:00am (ET) to support Heather Ellis, PhD candidate, at her public lecture. Heather will be speaking on, "Aftershocks: The Psychological Cost of the Great War." Email [email protected] for the zoom link. #westernu
February 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Join us on Thursday, February 6th at 10:00am (ET) to support Heather Ellis, PhD candidate, at her public lecture. Heather will be speaking on, "Aftershocks: The Psychological Cost of the Great War." Email [email protected] for the zoom link. #westernu
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"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Calling all editors! ✍🏻 The Nursing Clio collective is seeking applications for our Acquisitions Editor. Applications are due February 15. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/about/staff/...
Join Our Team!
The editing collective at Nursing Clio is seeking an Acquisitions Editor! Nursing Clio is a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current politi…
nursingclio.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Calling all editors! ✍🏻 The Nursing Clio collective is seeking applications for our Acquisitions Editor. Applications are due February 15. Please share widely! nursingclio.org/about/staff/...
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Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...
I know what I’m doing on my lunch break this week.
Our Cities of the Dead posters (History 4218F) will be mounted in the History Department in Lawson Hall for the next few months. Come check them out!
December 9, 2024 at 8:42 PM
I know what I’m doing on my lunch break this week.
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📢Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 📢
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
Prizes
2024/5 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION 2024-roy-porter-prize-entry-formDownload Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2024/5 Roy …
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November 22, 2024 at 9:46 AM
📢Roy Porter Student Essay Prize 📢
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃
Winner = opportunity to present plenary @sshmedicine.bsky.social's conference.
Winner/shortlisted = cash prizes and publication mentoring. Most promising entries = exclusive Masterclass with a journal editor.
Deadline: 1 Feb 2025. Details 👇
#HistMed #HistSTM 🗃