Here’s a few of the things that are getting our reading attention this week…
- After we reTweeted Midwives on Horseback from @NYAMHistory, Shane Landrum (@cliotropic) sent us a Storify on midwives and birth registration in Texas.
- The Jisc sent out an invitation to tender for a new project based on the UK-MHL: Visualising Medical History.
- The Guardian newspaper asks how we should illustrate mental health.
- The Center for the History of Medicine (one of the MHL’s principal contributors and founding partners) has had some great posts on its blog lately, including Staff Finds: IPPNW Anti-War Efforts Recognized by World Leaders, From the Ludlow Santo Domingo Collection: Satire and Sobriety, and Tour an “ultramodern” hospital in the year 1900. The book mentioned in the last post, A Quarter of a Century with the Free Hospital for Women is available in the MHL collection.
- The Cost of Living blog has a piece on the cost of mental health stigma.
- Digital Humanities Now linked us to the announcement of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting website.
- Play the Past opens a four-part series on Big History.
What have you been reading lately?
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