Social history of medicine

Heritage and History at the portside

Posted on 13 January 2025 by Keir Waddington

In November 2024, the Norwegian Church Arts Centre and the Cardiff Centre for Welsh History joined forces to host a fascinating workshop on the heritage and history of Welsh port […]

Archiecture, planning and health – why understanding the past helps the present

Posted on 15 July 2024 by Keir Waddington

Juliet Davis and Keir Waddington reflect on working together across disciplines to understand the interconnections between architecture, planning and health What started as a conversation in 2022 about Covid, planning, […]

Infinitely Obscure Lives: Disabled Convicts and their Loved Ones

Posted on 7 May 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this blog, Emily Cock reflects on her recent researching findings in Australia and giving voice to those disabled prisoners normally overlooked in our histories. This year I was lucky […]

Saving ‘the Lives and Limbs of many’: at sea with early modern ship’s surgeons

Posted on 22 January 2024 by Keir Waddington

John Woodall. Line engraving by G. Glover, 1639. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection In her new research, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin explores early modern ship's surgeons. She explains how in the early […]