The Centre runs a series of lectures throughout term time.  They will take place from 4pm to 5.30pm. The seminars are open to anyone who is interested: students, fellow academics and the wider public - all welcome.

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Seminar Series 2025/26

Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare 20th Anniversary Celebration

Wednesday 29th October 2025

3.30pm - 8pm

Room 106, Stenhouse Wing, Business School, University of Strathclyde

Please join us for a wine reception and public lectures from: 

Professor Tracey Loughran (Essex): 'The Ghost Child at the End of the Road Not Taken: Histories of What Never Was' 

Tracey Loughran is Professor of History at the University of Essex. Her current research aims to create an intersectional history of women’s ‘everyday health’ from the ground up, drawing on oral history interviews, Mass Observation directives, and mass-market magazines. Her publications include The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History: Approaches, Contexts and Perspectives (co-edited with Gayle Davis) and  Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950 (co-edited with Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy Payling).

Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck): 'Violent Women, Femininity, and the Medical Profession'

Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy, and OBE. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence and Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People. Her book entitled Evil Women will be published in 2025. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek.

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