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Leverhulme project Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality 1660-1832 Team @ClarkLawlor1, @helen189, @leighwd40, @historylitmed, @LozzySullivan

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Joined November 2018
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@writingdocs I hope you will take a look at my new anthology, published by Kent State University Press and available now at your independent bookstores or on Amazon: "So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature."
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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve passed with PhD Viva with no corrections! 🎉 Many thanks to my supportive team: @ClarkLawlor1, @historylitmed and Allan Ingram, my wonderful examiners Noelle Gallagher and @ClaudvanH, and my excellent chair @ein_haus! #PhDone #AcademicTwitter
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'Susanna Blamire, Medicine, and Romantic Women’s Poetry: An Exploration in Celebration of the Work of C H Maycock', with @writingdocs @NorthEnglishes is now available to view on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/6BhNwSddNuo
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Clark Lawlor's postponed online talk "Ideas of Contagion and Consumption: From Fashionable Disease to ‘Plague-stricken’ Tuberculosis" is at 16:00 Dutch time today. Email [email protected] for a Zoom link.
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Our last seminar of the academic year is tomorrow! Diana Volanakis's paper 'Making Time: The Women of the Waltham Watch Company at Work and on Strike, 1850-1914' will be delivered in person (LIP 121, 4.15pm) and online - DM for link - All welcome! #twitterstorians
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There's still time to join our Histories of Technology and Mind Control conference at the University of Groningen/online. Email [email protected] for details. bit.ly/3PCr4mY @jjeilenberg @caitlin__kelly @michellelegro @tomstafford @cabinetmagazine
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Join us next week for our final Affective Artefacts seminar of the year when world experts @HistoryElaine @ProfRankin @amandaeherbert @StefanHanss @leahastbury convene @TheJohnRylands to discuss The Renaissance of Recipes! Register 👇🏼 @UoMhistdept @UoMSALC
Join Amanda Herbert (@durham_uni) , Elaine Leong (@ucl) and Alisha Rankin (@TuftsUniversity) for the last #AffectiveArtefacts seminar and discover the newest research trends in Early Modern medical, cosmetic, and culinary recipes. Book your tickets at events.manchester.ac.uk/even…
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This Monday 25 April #RACSS Research & Comics collaborative online seminar series on #GraphicMedicine! @mlalanda @TheBadDr @terracottalily There's still time to sign up if you're interested! #medhums @UniofNewcastle @NorthumbriaUni
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📢Exciting @wellcometrust funded #PhD studentship at @UniofNewcastle examining the relation between place, space and health in literary/cultural representations of the North-South divide. Closing date 31 May 2022. For more info: ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-… #medhums
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Romantic poet Susanna Blamire (1747-1794) was a prolific Cumbria-based writer. Her writing captured both her lived experience of managing her own chronic-ill health and her work as a medical practitioner. Discover her story at this online event: bit.ly/37cCr3g
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On Sat 14 May we have our first ever in-person transcribe-a-thon, hosted @ucl! Gain hands-on experience of transcribing 18-19thC handwriting, learn from project leads incl. @SharonRuston about running a crowdsourced transcription project & the benefits of digitising manuscripts!
Happy publication day to my friend and collaborator, Allan Ingram brill.com/view/title/61340. The first of a series of @writingdocs publications, and it's only a whole bloody monograph! What a legend. Swift, Pope and the Doctors: Medicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century
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Fully-funded PhD in collaboration with @LSterneTrust: 'Experimental Fiction and the Literary Museum: The Legacy of Laurence Sterne'. Please forward to interested candidates! #phdchat #fundedphd @NorthEnglishes @BSECS @ahrcpress northernbridge.ac.uk/student…
@GeorgianPapers I will have a look at transcriptions and lend a hand!
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Congratulations to our Group member @DrSBonnerjee on her Fellowship - we’re excited to have you on the team - and to Northumbria’s other incoming Fellows too. So much great research being brought to life!
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Opportunity alert! @the_polyphony are looking for new Associate Editors - could you help shape the present and future of medical humanities in a role like this?
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For anyone interested in #histmed, check out this talk by Sarah Fox on #earlymodern midwives - this Thursday!
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Delighted that @leahastbury and @hrfletcher_ will join @UoMhistdept next year to work on my @wellcometrust project 'Sleeping well in the early modern world: an environmental approach to the history of sleep care'. Lucy Elliott (PhD student) & Laura Mitchell complete the team.
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📢THIS THURSDAY!📢 Excited to host a special lecture by @slread: The Materiality of the 17th Century Birthing Room as part of our 'Midwifery and the Humanities: New, Pasts, Presents and Futures' Online Series DM or email [email protected] to join us @NorthEnglishes
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One for @FashDisease and @writingdocs as well as @KatieAske
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