Dr Paige Donaghy

This image is the cover of Donaghy's book, which features a 17th century Dutch oil painting of a doctor inspecting a pregnant woman's urine.

Returning from holidays to the delightful news that my book, based on my PhD, has just been published 🌟

Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550–1850

Buy from Boydell & Brewer for 35% off with code BB135 ⬇️

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#earlymodern #medhums

Anne Summers: Living in the Seventies | Australian Women's History Network Vera Mackie joins Michelle Arrow and Zora Simic in commemorating fifty years of Anne Summers' 1975 feminist blockbuster, Damned Whores and God's Police.

As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later.

Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave!

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex

The next seminar in the Early Modern Circle is on Tuesday 19 August at 6pm at UniMelb ✨

Professor Timothy McCall from Villanova University will be presenting on the topic ‘Fighting for Anghiari’s Standards: Leonardo da Vinci and the Material Culture of War’ ⚔️

We hope to see you there!

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week, Australia and Britain mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week 📣

Learn more about the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence from #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social.

#BirthTraumaAwareness #BirthTrauma #ObstetricViolence

Read it here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰

Check out Lauren's fabulous new blog for @auswhn.bsky.social on history and tradwives 🔦

🏆The 2025 Hughes Prize for the best book in #histSTM, first published in 2023 or 2024, which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists.
Deadline Friday 11 April
Nominations are invited from both individuals and publishers via form at www.bshs.org.uk/submissions-...
#skystorians #histmed

PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage at University of Leeds Discover a PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other P...

PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
University of Leeds - School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP178/p...

This image is a poster advertising the upcoming Early Modern Circle seminar by Sarah Bendall. It states that the talk will take place at the Chisholm Theatrette at the University of Melbourne on 16 April at 6.15pm

Our first EMC seminar for the year takes place on Tuesday 15 April with Dr Sarah Bendall (@sarahabendall.bsky.social) ✨

Sarah is presenting “Celebrity, Scandal and Friendship: The social and business networks of female milliners in late 17th century London” 👒

All Melbourne-based folks welcome!

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

Ottoman map of Marseille with the title of the project UNSEEN, spelt as the acronym of “Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European ENcounter with Islamic Material Culture”, with the European Research Committee logo.

📢 JOB OPENING 📢
I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live!

This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

My colleagues at Uni Melb kindly
interviewed me about my PhD research and current postdoc project ✨

You can read here! 🤓

blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-resear...

The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...

In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...

The image is a poster advertising a talk for Paula Michaels' seminar on the history of "miracle cures, medical internationalism and US-Soviet relations, 1943-48". The poster states the talk occurs on 16 April at 7pm AEST and the zoom link is accessible via anzshm@anzshm.org.au

❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗

The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST

The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟

For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au

Check out @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social and I’s paper in the latest special issue of Health & History! Here we review some histories of reproduction and try to think through what might come next. Big thanks to Gayle Davis and Linda Bryder for steering the issue! ✨

muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

Queer Straight Alliance Against Hate- DC Gay Pride Parade 2012. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Stockwell: PhD candidate with the Centre for Heritage and Culture, and the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland.

In our latest blog VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them.

Fin it here: www.auswhn.com.au/blog/vilific...

Truly I shuddered when I read this 😫

An old document with handwritten case notes recording a patient who had a caterpillar crawl from their nose.

A gross but interesting archive find this morning in the Wellcome! 19th century case notes of a patient who had ‘a caterpillar’ crawl from their nose whilst in hospital! 🐛😖

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2024 Honorable Mention Cara Delay ​For Nursing Clio’s fifth annual best article prize competition, we awarded an honorable mention to Cara Delay, Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, for her …

Today @cethompson.bsky.social interviews our 2024 NC prize runner-up Cara Delay. Learn more about Cara’s work on domestic health care and home births in Ireland by reading this fantastic interview! nursingclio.org/2025/03/05/i...

HDR members of the AHA are invited to take part in weekly Shut Up and Write sessions, beginning 17 March on Zoom! Contact aha.postgrad@gmail.com for more info!

Amazing!! I’m currently in London so very keen to come along to this!

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7!
#STS #histstm #medanthro

The cover of my beautiful new book, Conceiving Histories. Black and white photo collage of a naked woman arms crossed riding a guppy side-saddle, in front of a moon. Title is in coral pink. Names of author and illustrator in white.

Dear BlueSky,

Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere.

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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens