'Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912' is just shy of its 4,000th download. If you are interested in the history of #pain, #emotion, and pre-anaesthetic #surgery, why not check it out and help push it over the line? You can access it for free here: bit.ly/3KwWtVS

Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her and I are so excited about our new project on the Victorian hand and can't wait to get started with all the exciting research and activities we have planned. I'm really pleased to be working with The Royal College of Surgeons of England again, as well as new project partenrs The Quilters' Guild.

An exciting new project involving former Surgery & Emotion PI Michael Brown exploring the history of the hand in Victorian Britain and working with both surgeons and crafters in the present.

More Liston myth debunking!

Delighted to share my new article 'Favouritism, Patronage and the ‘Family System’ in England, c.1700–1850' in EHR. Interested in the family, patronage and the professions? Then read on for my argument ⬇️academic.oup.com/ehr/article-ab…

📢NEW PUBLICATION ALERT📢 Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her & I are thrilled to announce the publication of our latest article in History of European Ideas. It's called 'Radical Exposure: Religion, Masculinity, and Politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal & we'd like to tell you about it: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Using the device of ‘exposure’, we focus on a little-known 1823 sex scandal involving a celebrity Congregational minister & his interaction with two young builders at a bathhouse in Camberwell.

The incident generated much press interest but Collyer came under particular scrutiny from Thomas Wakley, editor of The Lancet, whose investigation reported explicit revelations of sexual misconduct.

We shed light on the politics of masculinity, sexuality, and evangelical Christianity in the age of reform, demonstrating how radical reformers weaponised the politics of masculinity in their attacks on clerical ‘hypocrites’.

As such, it highlights broader patterns in C19 politics and culture whereby the middle classes (including evangelicals) increasingly styled themselves as morally unimpeachable bastions of domestic respectability and heterosexual normativity.

I'm delighted to read this lovely review of my latest book by Dolores Martín-Moruno in American Historical Review. I really appreciate the reviewer's support for my research & its suggestions for how we do the history of surgery, & even how we might do surgery itself. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

If you are inspired by this review to read my book, you can access it completely free of charge via Cambridge Core , here: cambridge.org/core/books/emo…

"The changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author Michael Brown and @cambridgeup! Subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

If you're in Manchester on 5 November, you can forgo the usual fireworks display for a display of intellectual fireworks* as I speak to CHSTM about Victorian medico-military modernity & the discourse of bloodshed *intellectual fireworks not guaranteed blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/09/…

It was a real pleasure to talk to Christine Slobogin and Spencer about my work on emotions and surgery for their excellent new podast. If you like what you hear, you can read the whole book for free here: cambridge.org/core/books/emo… #medhistory #emotionshist #historyofsurgery

Project PI Michael Brown talks to medical historian Christine Slobogin and medical student Spencer about surgery and emotion for their new podcast "In the Same Vein". You can check if out on Spotify, via the link, or on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-…

If you're in Manchester tomorrow, feel free to pop along to my seminar paper at CHSTM ...

I'm going to close my account on this morally bankrupt cesspit in a few days. Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her & I have one more announcement to make tomorrow about a job opportunity on the Victorian Hand project but, after that, if you want to stay in touch, you can follow me at medhistoryman.bsky.social.

📢 Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her and I are pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now on jobs.ac.uk - jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/res… Please spread the word!!!