May 2013
Our colleagues and collaborators at Northampton General Hospital have set up an Archive page on the Hospital’s website. Why not visit the website and see what they have to support your research interests?
For more information visit: http://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk/AboutUs/Ourhistory/HistoryNEW.aspx
or contact Sue Longworth to plan a visit at Sue.Longworth@NGH.NHS.UK
April 2013
Jonathan Reinarz and new Birmingham Fellow Vanessa Heggie (MESH) hosted the International Network for the History of Hospitals’ 7th biennial conference on 26-27 April. The event was the first ever conference on the history of hospital food, and took place at the University of Birmingham’s Brussels Office. Over two days, delegates presented some 15 papers on aspects related to the culture of food in medical institutions from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Delegates came from universities in North America, India, continental Europe and Britain, and explored hospitals, workhouses and asylums in India, Russia, Britain, France and the Caribbean, to name just a few of the contexts explored over the two days. A selection of the papers will be published as a special issue of the journal Food & History.
February 2013
Dr Vanessa Heggie joins the History of Medicine Unit this month. Dr Heggie has been appointed under the Birmingham fellows scheme and begins a five-year period of research and will then become a permanent member of the Unit’s staff. Her research focuses on the history of sports medicine and physiology. She is currently working on a book on the history of scientific expeditions and exploration physiology.
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Day School:
From Home to Hospital: Healthcare in 18th and 19th Century Birmingham
Location: Birmingham Museum
23rd February 2013 - 23rd February 2013
A Dayschool organised by Birmingham Museums supported by the Centre for West Midlands History, Birmingham University.
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