
Elaine Leong
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Historian of everyday science, tech & medicine @UCLHistory & @MPIWG. Author of Recipes and Everyday Knowledge bit.ly/30cXywe.
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-elaine-leong 28-01-2017 00:42:54
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This issue has taken a lot of time, thought, care and conversations - and I loved every minute of it. It was such a fulfilling experience. Thank you all, @LaetitiaLenel Hansun Hsiung #ErikaMilam @ehemmungswirten #Richardspiegel #ChristianFlow Shane R Butler #DrorWeil @jhokjournal

This #WorldAIDSDay2023 take part in this free online SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) event. We’ll hear from two ground-breaking historians exploring the impacts of HIV/AIDS among Black communities in America. Friday, 1 December, 4-5:30 pm UK time. I can’t wait!

As staff British Library work to restore services following the cyber attack, Royal Historical Society has a listing of guides, alternative content & workarounds for use by historians: bit.ly/3GoL8pA We also invite recommendations for additional content for use by #twitterstorians



Congratulations, Rebecca 🎊🎉 🎈 I can’t wait to celebrate with you and to read the fruits of your labour! Pls bring a copy to work 🥰 UCL History #History


Have you submitted your paper proposal for SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) 2024 yet? Deadline 2 February Looking forward to meeting all University of Strathclyde 🗓️16-19 July 2024 Pls share CHSTM HistMedJHU CSHHH Glasgow Oxford History of Science, Medicine and Technology Cambridge HPS AAHM HSTM Network strath.ac.uk/humanities/dep…


Just published by UCL Press: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading, with pieces from Anthony Grafton, Bill Sherman, the late Lisa Jardine, and many excellent others. Wonderfully, the online version is open-access. uclpress.co.uk/products/182702

Join the Consortium #HistSTM Objects, Images & Spaces of Health group on Fri Feb 9th @ 11 am EST to discuss Sharon Strocchia's fabulous paper on Indies Balsam in Renaissance Italy, comment by Mackenzie Cooley. Zoom link & paper @ tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx. #histmed #histstm #materialhistory


Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craft…

Five full-time, permanent academic positions available - apply now 👉 ucl.ac.uk/history/opport… @ucl_history UCL Social & Historical Sciences



🎉EVENT PROGRAMME🎉 We are thrilled to release the lineup for our ECR conference on Global Recipes in the Early Modern World (29-30 May, Cambridge/online)! A sincere thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support: SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social), British Society for the History of Science ARCHIVE, Renaissance SRS, Cambridge History! 👇



How did Parliament respond to the ‘clamour’ of petitioners over the course of the 17th century? Jason Peacey answers our questions about his new chapter on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England in our latest post: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/06/j…


📢CfP The Renaissance Society of America Boston 2025! Together with Maria Gloria Tumminelli, I am organising a panel on "Global Encounters: Sacred and Profane Spaces in the Early Modern Catholic World". Please, se details below for submissions. Deadline 01.08.2025 #earlymodern Cambridge Early Modernists


Wow! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing Michael D. Barton My first book is the free e-book this month UChicagoPress. Happy Reading!