Dr Anna Jamieson
@annafranjam.bsky.social
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
My contribution explores how space, sociability & letter-writing were conceptualised as strategies of self care by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Many thanks to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & David Denison and the JECS team for all their hard work on the issue!
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My contribution explores how space, sociability & letter-writing were conceptualised as strategies of self care by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Many thanks to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & David Denison and the JECS team for all their hard work on the issue!
Image caption: Levacher de la Feutrie, Traité du rakitis, ou l'art de redresser les enfants contrefaits, 1772. Wellcome images.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Image caption: Levacher de la Feutrie, Traité du rakitis, ou l'art de redresser les enfants contrefaits, 1772. Wellcome images.