Historian. Currently researching Californian experiences of the 1918-19 Flu. Strolling in St Andrews and finding my future in the past.#envirohist
Saint Andrews, Scotland
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If anyone was curious about my background and current research trajectory, here’s your chance to find out! I am so grateful for the opportunity to be the @StAndrewsHist Postgrad Spotlight for March!
This month's Postgraduate Spotlight is on Islay Shelbourne, a 2nd-year Environmental History PhD student. Learn more about her fascinating research on the 1918 influenza pandemic in California here! @IslayShelbourne standrewsschoolofhistory.wor…
Come along next Tuesday to hear all about Californian health myths and their impact on perceptions of TB and the 1918-19 Flu. I'm excited to share my findings and delve into all the details that didn't fit into my recently submitted PhD thesis
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Adam Dixon will be giving our November seminar on the 12th on the transport history of Tyneside viewed through the prism of fluidity. To join us, and read Adam's abstract, please see our eventbrite page:
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Miniatures is back and better than ever, featuring a new look and new episodes every alternate Monday this fall! Tune in today for a fascinating discussion on food history and the everyday. If it makes you as hungry listening as it did me editing you'll want a snack handy too!
This #MiniaturesMonday we invite you to pack your lunch and set the table for a fascinating discussion about all things food history. Check out the full synopsis below and tune in via Spotify at the following link, or search for us on Apple Music!
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Miniatures is back with a brand new look and brand new episodes coming soon! Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud to catch up on previous seasons and check out new episodes, coming Mondays this Fall #MiniaturesMonday
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An early image of the Colorado Street Bridge across the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena for today's #ArchivesOntheroad #ArchivesHashtagParty. It opened in 1913.
Don't forget that this season of our podcast, Western Edition, is all about the hidden histories of Pasadena! The final episode drops Tuesday:
dornsife.usc.edu/icw/season-…
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We're really looking forward to the next paper in our seminar series, on the 24th of September, given by Blake Johnston on Cosmologies and Indigenous Resistance. More details, and sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/reorienti…
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If you’re interested in research about #epidemics and #pandemics take a look at our blog which features work on historic and reemergent epidemics of #COVID19, HIV/AIDS, influenza and others: mediaepidemics.com/blog/
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9 pandemic webinars on COVID-19, "Spanish" flu, Germs and Plague this fall. Check them out here: uni.oslomet.no/pansoc/2024/0… @ewrigleyfield @MerleEisenberg @nitanother @OptionsIX @srijitacpal @benmschneider @PSIOxford @history2wheeler
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🎧 Season four of our podcast is almost here! Western Edition: Hidden Pasadena launches Tuesday, September 3, 2024.
More than 50 million viewers begin each new year looking to Pasadena, tuning into the Rose Parade to see flower and seed-coated floats cruise slowly down Colorado Boulevard. But to nearly 140,000 of those viewers, the “City of Roses” is home, a complex suburb of downtown Los Angeles with a deep history.
Western Edition: Hidden Pasadena shares six little-known Pasadena stories, from Simons brickyard to Vroman’s bookstore, St. Barnabas church to the Shoya House at The Huntington. It also considers Pasadenans from the past, from John Brown’s children to John Birch’s followers.
Internationally known for the Rose Bowl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Playhouse, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Jackie Robinson, Julia Child, Octavia Butler, Mildred Pierce, its little old ladies, the Arroyo Seco, and so much more, Pasadena has played a greater role in American and Pacific histories than most of its residents even know.
🎧 Listen to Western Edition: Hidden Pasadena September 3 wherever you find podcasts.
@uscdornsife @thehuntingtonlibrary
#westernhistory #cahistory #californiahistory #pasadena #pasadenahistory
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On our @EDACS_UoB gothic writing day with @EllieCDobson @jfpackham @jan_katrina @RossConway12, I’m researching influenza & alternative healing in spiritualism periodicals for an upcoming article. Check out the ghostly apparition of Joseph Lister in the advert for Yadil Antiseptic
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US public health campaign poster from the 1920s attempting to limit spread of TB #histmed #tuberculosis #publichealth #stopspitting #historyofmedicine #pastmedicalhistory
For a glimpse into my research on Southern Californian medical-media relations and mask wearing as a visible marker of popular understandings of contagion, check out my blog below!
The 1918 influenza #pandemic was a key topic at the Media and Epidemics conference. Take a look at fascinating research from @IslayShelbourne about Southern-Californian media responses to medical authority and mask wearing during the 1918 outbreak: bit.ly/3AhRWW1
Two months on and the fascinating discussions at this conference still sit with me and regularly inform my research. The MEDEP project is doing vital work in bringing together academics and their ideas for how to forge new paths in historical pandemic research.
“Delegates encouraged researchers to navigate a societal urge to forget or repress the trauma of #pandemics past to avoid distorting historical realities”.
See the full report of our @EUCHANSE Media and Epidemics conference now live on @hsozkult - bit.ly/3WCE40q
It was great to present some of my research on resistance to and from mainstream medical authority in California during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic at this year’s #SSHM2024. An enriching conference so far and still more to come!
Good Morning #SSHM2024
Day 2 and a packed programme of panels across 8 rooms, plus workshops, 2 keynotes and the Conference dinner! @CSHHH_Glasgow #histmed
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Excited to present our @MEDEP_CHANSE @EUCHANSE research poster on influenza in literature and newspapers 1889-1920 @PSIOxford #PandemicSciences2024
Media and Epidemics is excited to attend the @PSIOxford International #Pandemic Sciences Conference next week. We will be sharing a research poster from our UK team on representations of influenza in 19th & 20th century fiction & newspapers. Here’s 1 image we’ll be discussing ⬇️
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We are all set up for the Everyday Dictatorship Project 2024 Workshop: Extending the Comparative Frame of ‘Everyday Life History’ Aproaches (to Dictatorship, Colonial and Illiberal Regimes): Southern Europe, Southern Africa, South America’ arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyd… #EDP2024
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We wanted to extend a big thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and organised the Media and Epidemics #MEDEP24 conference in Bucharest last week! We had attendees from all over the globe who made important contributions to research on epidemics #histsci #litsci @EUCHANSE
