We are delighted to share that Prof Sally Shuttleworth has received a #CBE for services to the study of English Literature! Learn more about the project (inc. the award-winning Light Night event): diseasesofmodernlife.web.ox.ac.uk/#/ #QueensHonours TORCH Oxford St Anne's College Faculty of English

Good morning, #shotnola The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) conference goers! Now freely available online, from the latest issue of Technology and Culture: Amelia Bonea's "Contagion by Telephone: Print Media and Knowledge about Infectious Diseases in Britain, 1880s–1914": bit.ly/3Hv98Xk

My book "Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology & the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935" is finally out & free to read—to anyone, forever! 🔬🦟📚 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #histmed #medhums #litsci #scicomm #ronaldross

It’s lecture weekend at Science Gallery Bengaluru! Historian Amelia Bonea Uni Heidelberg will illustrate how communication technology became the focus of our anxieties around infectious diseases.

A pleasure to listen to Professor Chris Whitty speak on generalism, multi-morbidity and medical education at #DEMEC21 #DEMEC2021 this afternoon. As an historian of medicine, I particularly relished the nod to the long history of the relationship/tensions between specialism and generalism.

Pleasure to help represent AoMRC in this important work to support the SAS community. Thanks Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 and Anton Emmanuel for your commitment and enthusiasm.

Nothing is off the table in this cheeky musical performance devised by @ChippyTheatre and University of Oxford! The Contagion Cabaret takes an irreverent look at plagues past with pieces from Mary Shelley to satirical 90s cabaret songs.

*Friday, 17 December, 5:00 PM IST* Watch The Contagion Cabaret by The Theatre Chipping Norton! A panel discussion follows with the cast, scientists, and literary researchers for a witty take on the crisis of the moment. Sign up: bit.ly/contagion-caba…

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Former project member Amelia Bonea awarded the inaugural Mercurians Prize by the Mercurians SIG of The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for her paper on telephones, print media and infectious diseases in Britain. mercurians.org/news-and-annou…

Former team member Emilie Taylor-Pirie’s book has just hit 10k downloads!

Interested in history? medicine? Want to know who Alphonso is & how he travelled across the Indian Ocean in a bag of knitting? Then come to my public talk next Wednesday at the RCPSG & hear all about Britain's first Nobel laureate, Ronald Ross, the poet who conquered malaria!

Another update from us! As part of the 'Friends of the Angus' seminar at the Angus library, Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford) will be giving her talk 'Charles Spurgeon and Wintering in Menton'. Sign up for the online seminar below: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

Interested in the history of medicine? Want to know how a poet conquered malaria, or who Alphonso was & how he could fit into a handbag? Then tune into the recorded version of my RCPSG talk for the 120th anniversary of the first British Nobel prize #malaria #medhums #histmed

My latest article (for the BMJ: Medical Humanities)—"The Poet Who Conquered Malaria: Medical Humanities and the Public Understanding of Science" #histmed #litsci #ronaldross go.shr.lc/3kDEcgP

We are pleased to announce that the following titles have been shortlisted for the BSLS Book Prize 2022. The winner will be announced on 14 April 2023 at the annual BSLS conference Edinburgh Napier University. In alphabetical order . . . #LitSci #BookPrize #medhum #sts #scifi #BSLS2023 1/6

Emilie Taylor-Pirie (Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie dretaylorpirie.bsky.social), Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 (published by Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature). 5/6

After some difficult personal news this week, I am thrilled & humbled to receive some really lovely professional news! 🥰 #BSLS2023