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Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c.1600-1800

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Rebekah Higgitt r.higgitt@nms.ac.uk Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin Kilburn-ToppinJ@cardiff.ac.uk with Noah Moxham When you think of scientific activity in seventeenth century London your thoughts probably turn to learned societies and their experiments, like those conducted by the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, witnessed by gentleman natural philosophers. Our book Metropolitan Science suggests that such learned, … Continued

“Ito ang aming mga kwento”: building an oral history archive of Filipino migration to Britain, 1974-present

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Oral History Project Led by Francesca Humi: Information and Call for Participants In Spring 2020, 22% of Covid-19 related deaths amongst NHS nurses were Filipino, despite them representing only 3.8% of NHS nurses. The pandemic threw health, care, and domestic work into the limelight and exposed the precarious working and visa conditions of many of … Continued

Pat Thane: Reflections on history, policy and action

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On Friday 8th November 2024 a workshop was held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London in honour of Professor Pat Thane. This workshop was generously funded by the Royal Historical Society and the Social History Society and with the support of the IHR. Pat is a pathbreaking figure in the historical profession, spearheading … Continued

Age and Health 1500-1800 Conference

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Jennifer McFarland and Olivia Formby, University of Cambridge jmm269@cam.ac.uk occf2@cam.ac.uk   Held at St John’s College, University of Cambridge on 24 June 2024, Age and Health 1500-1800 brought together nine postgraduate and early career speakers working on various aspects of health and the life cycle, with a further thirty attendees in person and online. In … Continued

Animals and the Holocaust Workshop

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Dr Roseanna Ramsden, University of Leeds R.Ramsden@leeds.ac.uk @RosieRamsden92   In July of this year, Barnabas Balint and Charlotte Gibbs, of the University of Oxford and the University of Southern California respectively, together hosted an academic workshop on the topic of animals and the Holocaust. Held at Magdalen College, Oxford, with the generous support of the … Continued

Organise! Organise! Organise!

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Conference Review: Organise! Organise! Organise! Collective Action, Associational Culture and the Politics of Organisation in the British Isles, c.1790-1914, 20-21 July 2023 Dr Dave Steele, University of Warwick @dr_davesteele This conference was supported by a Social History Society Small Grant. It was also supported by the British Agricultural History Society,  the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, … Continued

Alcohol, psychiatry and society: Comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s

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Waltraud Ernst, Oxford Brookes University wernst@brookes.ac.uk Thomas Müller, Ulm University th.mueller@zfp-zentrum.de This new book addresses one of the central debates in the history of alcohol and intoxication: the supposed ‘medicalisation’ of alcohol use from the nineteenth century onwards. The editors argue that many cultures understood the link between overconsumption of intoxicating beverages and the deterioration … Continued