Future history of medicine events
December 2025
The Osler Club of London
Thursday 11 December 2025, 19.00
Professor Piers Mitchell, University of Cambridge: Disease and Medicine in the Crusades
Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St Andrews Pl, London NW1 4LE
https://www.osler.org.uk/events/blog-post-four-hyyfe
January 2026
History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 18.30
Bynum Event, History of Medical Care in Prisons
Professor Dan Healey, Gulag doctors and the practice of medicine in Stalin’s labour camps
Professor Hilary Marland, Disorder contained: Mental illness and medical management in nineteenth-century prisons
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE,
https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/history-of-medicine/2025-26/hsu03/
Hunterian Society
Monday, 19 January 2026, 19.00
Scientific dinner meeting
Professor Prokar Dasgupta, Professor of Robotic Surgery, AI in Surgery
Lettsom House 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square,, London, United Kingdom
https://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/event/scientific-meeting-and-council-2/
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
Thursday, 29 January 2026 (Rescheduled from 2025), 18.30-19.30, online
Lucy Jane Santos, author and researcher, Radioactive Remedies: The Unlikely History of Uranium and Radium in Pharmaceuticals
https://www.bshp.org/events
History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine
Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17.30-19.45
Representing Medicine in the Past
Richard Ormond, art historian and great nephew of John Singer Sargent, and Stephanie Snow, Professor of Health, History and Policy
February 2026
Osler Club of London
Thursday 5 February 2026, 19.00
Professor Neil Vickers, King’s College London, Being Ill: on Sickness, Care and Abandonment
Royal College of Physicians of London, 1 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE
https://www.osler.org.uk/events/blog-post-four-hyyfe
Hunterian Society
Monday, 16 February 2026, dinner 1930
Anniversary dinner
Principle guest Professor Roger Kirkby
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE
https://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/event/anniversary-dinner-5/
BSHM does not organise these events. Please check the official websites to confirm the date, time and location of the events listed and for any queries.
Organisations affiliated to the BSHM may send details of events here.
