Hannah Murphy

@murphyhs2019

Early modern science @kingshistory, Director @cemsKcl, PI @MMoR_KCL, "A New Order of Medicine" upittpress.org/books/97808229…

mmor.co.uk Joined March 2019

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Hannah Murphy @murphyhs2019 May 22, 2023

In 1611, four young boys were enslaved off the West Coast of Africa. The event was recounted by a barber-surgeon. Sources on Medicine, Slavery and Race-making is a new blog run by our @UKRI_News project @MMoR_KCL

Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 @MMoR_KCL May 22, 2023

Exciting announcement! We are starting our brand new blog series on the MMoR website TODAY, beginning with an introductory blog post from @murphyhs2019 Read it here! bit.ly/3Iz13TM #histmed #earlymodern #twitterstorians @kingshistory
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Hannah Murphy @murphyhs2019 Apr 30, 2025

A wonderful blog by @AdamJBrigden examining medical commentary on the Middle Passage, and revealing intersections between slavery, race, and disease...

Dr Adam Bridgen @AdamJBridgen Apr 29, 2025

Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)
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Hannah Murphy @murphyhs2019 Apr 28, 2025

Beyond excited to welcome Surekha Davies to King's today to talk monsters, humanity, humanities, and the future, with a very special comment by Philip Ball... mmor.co.uk/events/book-ta… Talk is followed by drinks and nibbles, so do stop by...

www.mmor.co.uk Book Talk - Humans: A Monstrous History — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 Join CEMS and MMoR for a talk with Dr. Surekha Davies ’ on her newly published book Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025) . Dr. Davies tells a history of how humans have...

Hannah Murphy @murphyhs2019 Apr 28, 2025

Trotter, scurvy, and slavery - read our latest blogpost by Adam Bridgen... mmor.co.uk/blog/thomas-tr…

www.mmor.co.uk Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786) — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 Throughout this blog series, medical practitioners’ involvement in the slave trade has been shown to be extensive but also varied. If sources often present the relationship as coincidental and...

Hannah Murphy @murphyhs2019 Mar 31, 2025

A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the @MMoR_KCL blog - read his work on Sandoval, conversion and the religious politics of race-making....

Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 @MMoR_KCL Mar 31, 2025

It's another new blog Monday! Read Michael Aidan Pope's 'Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans', now live on our website here: bit.ly/4j7BEkt @kingshistory @murphyhs2019 #earlymodern
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