Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
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The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
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✨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
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
UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS
SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…
sshm.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
✨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
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
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🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟
Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970
with Prof Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle (or Sydney-based)
Domestic students only
Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗
More information ⬇️
www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
#histSTM #histmed
Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970
with Prof Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle (or Sydney-based)
Domestic students only
Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗
More information ⬇️
www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
#histSTM #histmed
A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s
www.newcastle.edu.au
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟
Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970
with Prof Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle (or Sydney-based)
Domestic students only
Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗
More information ⬇️
www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
#histSTM #histmed
Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970
with Prof Catharine Coleborne
Newcastle (or Sydney-based)
Domestic students only
Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗
More information ⬇️
www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
#histSTM #histmed
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WG5 Seminar Series: Worldmaking through Health: Notes on Yugoslav Social Medicine and the Moral Imagination of Global Health speaker Jelena Kupsjak (University of Zadar, Croatia)
12 Dec 2025
12.30pm CET
#Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159
12 Dec 2025
12.30pm CET
#Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
WG5 Seminar Series: Worldmaking through Health: Notes on Yugoslav Social Medicine and the Moral Imagination of Global Health speaker Jelena Kupsjak (University of Zadar, Croatia)
12 Dec 2025
12.30pm CET
#Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159
12 Dec 2025
12.30pm CET
#Skystorians #HistMed #HealthHist #MedHums #CA22159
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Working Group 1 seminar 10 December 2025 1pm CET
Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962
Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet)
ONLINE - link via email / bulletin
#Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History
Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962
Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet)
ONLINE - link via email / bulletin
#Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Working Group 1 seminar 10 December 2025 1pm CET
Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962
Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet)
ONLINE - link via email / bulletin
#Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History
Providing Healthcare in the Periphery: The Role of Provincial Doctors in Sweden, 1850–1962
Helene Castenbrant (Lunds Universitet)
ONLINE - link via email / bulletin
#Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed #CA22159 #History
✨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
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
UPCOMING SSHM EVENTS
SSHM Mid-Career Writing Retreat funded by Wellcome Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) Led by Professor Rowena Murra…
sshm.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
✨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
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
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Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s
www.newcastle.edu.au
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Amazing History of Medicine PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Newcastle (Australia), part of Prof Cathy Coleborne's ARC grant on Australian experiences of polio: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...
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Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS annual conference. See our post for a breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern #publichealth across Italy, Mughal India, and England. premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568
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Dcember 2025/ ANZAMEMS Conference: “Possibilities” | Premodern Healthscaping
premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS annual conference. See our post for a breakdown of our panels, focusing on premodern #publichealth across Italy, Mughal India, and England. premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1568
#histmed
#histmed
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Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
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Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Online this Wednesday, 3-4pm Florence time @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
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 👇
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 👇
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context Location:…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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 👇
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 👇
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Call for Statements of Interest - open now!
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Call for Statements of Interest - open now!
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
In 2026 the MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. Full details attached #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
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
#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...
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
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
#histmed #medhumanities
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#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#Lazyweb Does anyone have a good introductory reading on perspectives on disability in Victorian Britain? #HistMed #DisabilityHistory
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Im looking for other scholars in #DisHist #HistMed or #VastEarlyAmerica for a SHEAR 2026 panel. Tim Holliday and I are hoping to put a panel together on how patient knowledge shaped medicine in the early republic 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Im looking for other scholars in #DisHist #HistMed or #VastEarlyAmerica for a SHEAR 2026 panel. Tim Holliday and I are hoping to put a panel together on how patient knowledge shaped medicine in the early republic 1/3
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Together with the RCN History of Nursing Forum and HIVstory, we're remembering the experiences of nursing workers during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Discover their stories and learn more about the project at our event on 27 November.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Together with the RCN History of Nursing Forum and HIVstory, we're remembering the experiences of nursing workers during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Discover their stories and learn more about the project at our event on 27 November.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4nBiXXI
📷 Historical Nursing Journals, 1985.
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Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals .
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Sensing Spaces: The History of Colour, Art and Care | Royal College of Nursing
Join us for an online talk on the history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals.
www.rcn.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Interested in the history of hospitals ? #histnursing #histmed #histhospitals. Free online 19th Nov 17.30 UK time - open to all @rcnlibraries.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social The history of colour in twentieth-century British hospitals .
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social
Recovery Histories – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
shra.bbk.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Take a look at the elegant 'Recovery Histories' website for how ideas about trauma and recovery from child sexual abuse have developed over the 2nd half of the C20th: shra.bbk.ac.uk/projects/rec... @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @crispp.bsky.social @cultsochistory.bsky.social
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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
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
'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
History of Medicine CFPs
If you wish to share your CFPs on the SSHM website please contact the Exec Sec, Dr Justine Pick [email protected] Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism Location…
sshm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
Free and open to all
#histmed
Joyce Grainger Learning Centre
Joyce Grainger Learning Centre
www.rcpe.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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
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
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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
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
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We want to hear your memories of birth. As part of projects by
@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We want to hear your memories of birth. As part of projects by
@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
@voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social we'll be travelling around Worcestershire gathering all of your stories. Our first venue is Perdiswell Young People's Leisure Centre, Worcester on Friday 21 November 10:30am to 12:30pm. Join us!
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📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970”
🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistMed
🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970”
🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistMed
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📢 Join us for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970”
🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistMed
🗓️ Deborah Cohen (University of Birmingham) — “The Voices of Psychiatric Patients on BBC Radio: 1945–1970”
🕐 Tue 11 Nov, 1–2 pm (UK) · Zoom
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistMed
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#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.
Reminder
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐭' 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #OnlineLectures #CompoundMedicamentes #ConstantinetheAphrican
The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR
This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#MedievalSky #histmed Please welcome Anna Gili (@gi-anna97.bsky.social) to Bluesky. And check out her talk on 11 November, too! She talking about my favorite guy in #MedievalMedicine, Constantinus Africanus.
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A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A selection of great papers by Robert Dale, Eri Nakamura and Owen Rees on day 1 of this symposium. The second event in the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded (via @sshmedicine.bsky.social) 'Military Communities’ Medical Welfare and Care History Conference Series‘. More tomorrow #milwelfhist