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Explore our posts where you can find updates from the Centre and information about our events.
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Workshop: Plants
Join us on 29 April 2026 for Plants, the third event in our Manchester Workshop Series on Natural Archives and the History of Science in Asia.
HSTM Collections at our University Library: recent accessions
A list of accessions in 2024 and 2025, of archives and books, in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, at the University of Manchester Library.
Nigeria in the Antimicrobial Eras Stakeholders Workshop
We are pleased to announce our first stakeholder workshop for the Wellcome Trust funded project Nigeria in the Antimicrobial Eras on 24 March 2026.
History of ‘Psy’ Disciplines: Psychiatry, Mental Health, and Neuroscience
We are pleased to announce the first CHSTM PhD Workshop on the history of ‘psy’ disciplines on 12 March 2026.
CHSTM Research Seminar, 12 May 2026
Prof Mary Augusta Brazelton
Looking up at the ‘Little Moon’: Media and Mass Participation in Astronomy Under Mao
CHSTM Research Seminar, 21 April 2026
Dr Sarah Qidway
Aligarh’s Scientific Society (est. 1864)
CHSTM Research Seminar, 17 March 2026
Dr Siobhán Hearne
Soviet Healthcare Diplomacy in the Global South
CHSTM Research Seminar, 3 February 2026
Prof Matthew Cobb
The life and times of Francis Crick, or why it sometimes matters who does science
CHSTM Research Seminar, 9 December 2025
Dr Angela Cassidy
From shared to separated health – and back again? The multiple lives of modern mycobacteria
NEW DATE: CHSTM Research Seminar, 2 December 2025
Dr Gemma Cirac-Claveras
Data Wars: International Data Sharing (or not) in Meteorology, 1980s-1990s





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