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Registration now open: The Past as Nightmare

Posted on
4th March 2022

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN The Past as Nightmare: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK) 6-7 September 2022 Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach The gothic has a…Read More >

Registration now open: The Past as Nightmare

The Making of a Cheerful Ballad: Health, History, and Music Workshops in a Reading Council Care Home

Posted on
15th February 20221st March 2022
Amie Bolissian is the Postgraduate Representative and Social Media Manager at the Centre for Health Humanities, and is in the final year of her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD project on early...Read More >
The Making of a Cheerful Ballad: Health, History, and Music Workshops in a Reading Council Care Home

Call for Papers: The Past as Nightmare

Posted on
7th January 20227th January 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS The Past as Nightmare: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK) 6-7 September 2022 Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach The gothic has a…Read More >

Call for Papers: The Past as Nightmare

Introducing Space to Think: Rural Wellbeing, our latest student exhibition

Posted on
20th July 2021

Mental Health is increasingly becoming the subject of heritage interpretation and museum displays. In addition museums are becoming places of social prescribing and therapeutic engagement. In light of this Museum…Read More >

Introducing Space to Think: Rural Wellbeing, our latest student exhibition

Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis

Posted on
15th July 2021

Being a pre-modern historian of ageing health can be a little lonely. There are not very many of us, and we tend to be spread out across the globe. Perhaps…Read More >

Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis

Signs of the times: COVID-19 and public health notices

Posted on
13th May 202113th May 2021

Thanks to a CHH Fellowship, Stephen Hickson has been appointed as a research assistant to work on a cross-disciplinary research project investigating how verbal and graphic language is used to…Read More >

Signs of the times: COVID-19 and public health notices

2020 Publications Review

Posted on
20th April 202121st April 2021

Members of the Centre for Health Humanities published a wealth of journal articles, chapters and books in 2020; here are just some of the highlights. Books The Science of Starving…Read More >

2020 Publications Review

This 400-year-old botched nose job shows how little our feelings about transplants have changed

Posted on
15th April 202115th April 2021

In 1624, a physician called Jean-Baptiste van Helmont told a strange story in his book of “magnetic cures” about a man from Brussels who had lost his nose. Having had…Read More >

This 400-year-old botched nose job shows how little our feelings about transplants have changed

Recently published: Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Posted on
24th March 2021

We’re delighted to announce the recent publication of Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England by Dr Alanna Skuse, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the Department of English at the…Read More >

Recently published: Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

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