Claire Turner
@claireturner.bsky.social
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
Gibson Library
gibsonlibrary.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
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My latest article is now available on advanced access. Huge thanks to @claireturner.bsky.social and @leannecalvert.bsky.social for all of there support in getting it over the line.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
My latest article is now available on advanced access. Huge thanks to @claireturner.bsky.social and @leannecalvert.bsky.social for all of there support in getting it over the line.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
Today marks my first day as a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social! I’ll be using the time to develop my research on sensory experiences of cancer in the past. If you’re in Manchester between now and June, drop me a line - I’d love to connect!
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today marks my first day as a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social! I’ll be using the time to develop my research on sensory experiences of cancer in the past. If you’re in Manchester between now and June, drop me a line - I’d love to connect!
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A thoughtful review of Cancer Virus Hunters in BJHS by
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
#cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury
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@ctimmermann.bsky.social
#cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50.00 (hardcover). | The British Journal for the...
Gregory J. Morgan, Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 978-1-4214-4401-7. $50.00 (hardcover).
www.cambridge.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A thoughtful review of Cancer Virus Hunters in BJHS by
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
#cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
#cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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@jbhist.bsky.social & I are pleased to see that our article on the sensory, emotional, & material history of the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 is now formally out in November's issue of Historical Research. It's completely Open Access, so please check it out ...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain
Abstract. This article considers the conjunction of senses, emotions and objects in the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 to deepen our understanding of po
academic.oup.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@jbhist.bsky.social & I are pleased to see that our article on the sensory, emotional, & material history of the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 is now formally out in November's issue of Historical Research. It's completely Open Access, so please check it out ...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
medhumsplatform.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
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📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
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Join us for our next seminar on Thursday 27 November, when @claireturner.bsky.social will be discussing the gendered construction of cancer amongst men during the long nineteenth century. Details below:
Location: Virtual (link in event listing).
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: Virtual (link in event listing).
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Cancer and the male body, c.1759-1913 | LSHTM
This presentation examines the gendered construction of cancer amongst men in the long nineteenth century. Its target audience are students and staff interested in the history of cancer, as well all
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Join us for our next seminar on Thursday 27 November, when @claireturner.bsky.social will be discussing the gendered construction of cancer amongst men during the long nineteenth century. Details below:
Location: Virtual (link in event listing).
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Location: Virtual (link in event listing).
Time: 12:45 - 14:00
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Places almost completely filled for this! Let me know if you'd like a spot reserving before they run out.
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Places almost completely filled for this! Let me know if you'd like a spot reserving before they run out.
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We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...
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historians, every day:
what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this information???
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
historians, every day:
Does anyone happen to have a digital copy of Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse)? TIA!
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Does anyone happen to have a digital copy of Religion and life cycles in early modern England (Edited by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine and Tessa Whitehouse)? TIA!
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We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project! Welcome Xiao!
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
New Editor: Polyphony Meets China
We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project.
thepolyphony.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project! Welcome Xiao!
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/10/n...
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it’s that time of the year again where I reiterate my strong belief that we should ban fireworks because they’re stupid, pointless, and harmful.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
it’s that time of the year again where I reiterate my strong belief that we should ban fireworks because they’re stupid, pointless, and harmful.
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📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Transformative Humanities PhD Scheme - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Find out more 👇
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Happy Halloween!
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Happy Halloween!
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
Here is a picture from when I took my book of spooky smells, The Doom Town Dummies, to the house of spooky smells. ☂️
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You can SMELL the point-and-click game Foolish Mortals by @inklingwood.bsky.social!
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You can SMELL the point-and-click game Foolish Mortals by @inklingwood.bsky.social!
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
It was a delightful opportunity to develop smells, through @aromaprime.bsky.social, for players to sniff as they explore.
why is it that it's always when you've got an important deadline or event that your body decides it's the right time to get covid
October 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
why is it that it's always when you've got an important deadline or event that your body decides it's the right time to get covid
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📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...
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Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
events.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Reposted by Claire Turner
Why did it have to be snakes?
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why did it have to be snakes?
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
The greatest fear of antiquity-hunting adventurers is the focus of this temporary display case for Halloween half term's "Fears and Phobias" theme.
(Which means spending my last afternoon before the school holidays putting a bunch of cheap plastic snakes on display).
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I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
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New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...
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Running a test, and now the parlour smells like the Alton Manor graveyard 🪦
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Running a test, and now the parlour smells like the Alton Manor graveyard 🪦