Dr Helen Esfandiary

Historian early mod/long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, domestic knowledge. @IHR_LifeCycles & @Long18thsem. Book forthcoming with MUP

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

So immensely proud to have received this award and to be contributing something new to scholarship on smallpox inoculation in children

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

The Pollard Prize is awarded to Helen Esfandiary (@kingshistory) for a paper at the Life Cycles seminar on Smallpox inoculation in 18th C Elite Society

[Sarah Knott @knott_sarah]

This Thursday pm I head to my former undergraduate college to talk about the history of maternal labour. A return of sorts, both to Magdalen and to an earlier body of research. All welcome! https://t.co/jEbkMKKa8W

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

Welcome on board @SocialBodiesUoB Emma!!!

[Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma]

Thrilled to be on board to help bring this fantastic project to the public! I'm looking forward to working with brilliant partners and learners, and talking all things C18th letters, over the next few months 📝📨

[IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem]

Our fortnightly seminar series continues next Wed 9/10 at 17:30 at the IHR Wolfson Room (as well as online via Zoom) as @sarahfoxhistory of Edge Hill University will discuss the role of food in the formation of British identities.
@ihr_history
https://t.co/u58S85zSc2

[HistoryLab @IHRHistoryLab]

📢CFP!

We are excited to announce our #cfp for our annual seminar series! If you are a PG student wanting to present your research in a friendly environment then please consider applying!

We particularly welcome first-time presenters!

Read below to find out more! #History 🤩

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

My happy place - especially on a sunny October Friday afternoon!

@long18thsem
@IHR_LifeCycles
@ihr_history

[IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem]

ICYMI 👇
Sign up to join us tomorrow (Weds 25) in-person/online to hear @Brycchan talking about 'The 'rational study of God's works': Eighteenth century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences' at the @long18thsem
@ihr_history

https://t.co/OuBua34EGw

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

@agnesjuliet @sally_holloway Yes please Agnes!

[Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @SocialBodiesUoB]

No longer in the employ of her once strict & demanding former mistress, Elizabeth encounters a rather different Mrs Eyre upon returning to the town for a brief visit; demonstrating the often complicated dynamic between mistress and servant:

Elizabeth Clift to William Clift, 1799

[IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem]

Apply by 6 Sept to become our new PG convenor! 👇

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

A fantastic opportunity to become part of our vibrant research culture. Deadline 6 Sept. Don’t delay!!!

[IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem]

History PhD students around London: the 'British History in the Long 18th Century’ seminar at @ihr_history is looking for a postgraduate convenor for the academic year 2024/25. A stipend of £200 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! @long18thsem
#18thcentury
Apply ⬇️

[Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @SocialBodiesUoB]

Heading back to London shortly after a fantastic conference on the History of Medicine and Resistance. Plenty to think about in terms of embodiment and negotiation. Thank you @SSHMedicine & @CSHHH_Glasgow #histmed #bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters

[CSMBR @csmbr_pisa]

𝐂𝐒𝐌𝐁𝐑 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
Forthcoming this autumn...
#csmbr #onlinelectures

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

@SocialBodiesUoB No, the daughter’s husband, Anne’s son-in-law

[Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @SocialBodiesUoB]

The material power of the letter in helping to process grief when separated:

‘I have often perused your letter, and oftener gone thro’ every scene it describes with you, for that, you are never absent from my mind.’

A. Robertson to her daughter, 1809

#18thc #letters #grief

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

Well said!

[Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet]

This is one of the more personal things I’ve written recently.

It’s about the birth of my baby, “natural” childbirth, the inadvertent harms of some feminist activism, and a strange nostalgia for the world of reproduction before medicalisation.

[Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns1]

Its thrilling to see my book Maladies of Empire, which is about how slavery, colonialism and war led to the development of epidemiology, translated in another language. The Japanese version arrived today! Thanks to everyone at Harvard UP who made this & the other translations available to a global readership.

[SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) @SSHMedicine]

Registration is now open for Age and Health 1500-1800
🗓️24 June 2024
Open to All
#histmed

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

Ooh interesting! I’ll definitely submit an abstract for this!

[Dr Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary]

Delighted to discover I have been nominated for an award for my teaching on the history of medicine at King’s College London! #histmed

[SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) @SSHMedicine]

🎉 🎉Congratulations to @SSHMedicine trustee and committee member @mckee_felicity who successfully defended their thesis today #PhDone