#Edinburgh has a rich medical history. Check out our new virtual tour – with maps, photos, stories and videos – to help you explore Edinburgh’s hospitals and asylums – as well as the discoveries, experiments and crimes that put us on the (virtual) map! rcpe.ac.uk/walkingtour/

Our exhibition is now open! ‘FOOD: Recipe or Remedy’ explores the relationship between food and medicine over 600 years rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/food-…

GIVEAWAY: Like and share to WIN! On Saturday 7th May a name will be picked at random. The winner will receive a signed paperback of my book 'Magical House Protection: The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft' and also an Apotropaios recycled leather bookmark and enamel badge.

I mean, you have to draw me as I am! Thank you for this beautiful piece!!

🚨📖BOOK GIVEAWAY!📖🚨 My Edinburgh University Press book 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' is finally out in paperback!! To celebrate, I'm giving a copy away - all you need to do to enter is RT this tweet, and I'll draw a winner in a week's time!

Join us for a free open day on Sat 13 Aug for workshops, tours and displays. Taste-test some historical medicinal sweets, check out our short talks and take part in interactive displays from @GladstonesLand SCCR (Cyrenians) and Cyrenians Find out more eventbrite.com/e/exhibitions-…

I'm not very good at celebrating my successes, but I officially became a Dr on Friday! Thank you to my supervisors (who do not have accounts) and to my examiners, Gayle Davis (who also does not have an account) and @Chris_R_Langley

I'll be there too! Come say hi!

This website is awesome! 10/10 recommend for some productive procrastination. Great job Dr Lindsay Middleton is Well Fed&Well Read!! dishesforthesickroom.com

The paperback is here! And if you cannot wait until 28 September, we have two signed copies available, post-free worldwide. To be eligible, follow Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen and Profile Books and retweet this post before 16 September. Good luck!

My favourite movie of all time! Wish I were back in America for Myrna Loy night on TCM.

Things I wish I knew during my PhD: apparently, if you sign up for email notifications with some academic publishers, they give you discount codes!

I think I need to do a better job recognizing when I’m having a bad day and being kind to myself when I am

In today's blog post, Charlotte Holmes (Charlotte Holmes) writes about the first cookbook to be printed in Scotland, 'Mrs McLintock’s Receipts for Cookery and Pastry Work' (Edinburgh, 1736) - of which our Archives and Special Collections hold the only copies! …versityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2022/10/25/mrs…

Hi, my name is Charlotte. I'm old enough to remember dial-up. And my day is still ruined after realising a small error in an important email.

Fabulous event for a fantastic exhibition! Physicians' Gallery

William Buchan in his Domestic Medicine (1769): ‘The medicine of the mind is too little regarded. In vain do we apply medicines to the body to remove diseases which proceed from the mind’.

Another successful launch from Physicians' Gallery. I promise the exhibition is magical! pic.x.com/5nSiXbUKUt