Elaine Leong
@HistoryElaine
Historian of everyday science, tech & medicine @UCLHistory & @MPIWG. Author of Recipes and Everyday Knowledge https://t.co/RedYYOFWJK.
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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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Five full-time, permanent academic positions available - apply now 👉 ucl.ac.uk/history/opport…
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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…
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
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
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
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My newest article, 'Ottoman Plants, Nature Studies, and the Attentiveness of Translational Labor' is just out! 🌿
It is part of a special issue on labor history of science in the journal History of Science! #twitterstorians
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
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
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!
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, Laetitia Lenel Hansun Hsiung #ErikaMilam Eva Hemmungs Wirtén #Richardspiegel #ChristianFlow Shane R Butler #DrorWeil Journal for the History of Knowledge
So excited to be part of this SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) forum with my colleague Antoine J., PhD for World AIDS Day! Join us if you are available! The event is free and virtual.
It was such fun to transcribe with my undergrad students from UCL History & wonderful to introduce them to 17c book objects. Thank you to Wellcome Collection and RCP museum for hosting us and EMROC for organizing! #bookhistory #histsci #histmed
Super excited to transcribe with you! A UCL History group will be joining too and we look forward to meeting you all at 1 tomorrow 🥰. #histmed #earlymodern Wellcome Collection RCP museum EMROC
Fancy learning more about #earlymodern beauty recipes? Join EMROC's annual transcribathon on Friday to learn more about the Wellcome Collection manuscript below and a fabulous Rx book from RCP museum. Details: tinyurl.com/yes2d3h2. #histmed #histsci UCL History
This Friday 10th November @ 11 EST on Zoom! Claire Burridge on 'Marginal Recipes, Major Insights' at the Consortium #HistSTM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histstm #medieval #recipestudies #bookhistory