Future history of medicine events
NOVEMBER 2025
Royal College of Physicians Museum
Monday 10 November 2025 12.30 – 13.30 and Monday 15 December 17.30 – 18.30
Explore Making Visible, a striking new art installation by doctoral researcher Catherine James in the Royal College of Physicians Dorchester Library.
11 St Andrews Place London, NW1 4LE
Register free
Old Operating Theatre Museum
Wednesday 12 November 2025 18.00-20.30
Fragile Creatures: Live performance
St Thomas’ Church, 9a St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/fragile-creatures-live-at-the-old-operating-theatre/
Scottish Society for the History of Medicine
Saturday 15 November 2025, 14.00-17.00
Autumn meeting
Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place (central Edinburgh) Edinburgh EH3 6QE
https://sshm.ac.uk/
Hunterian Society
Monday 17 November 2025
Professor Sir Nick Black, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: James Lambert: Medicine’s neglected hero
Lettsom House, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Sq, London W1G 9EB
https://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/calendar/
Bristol Medico-Historical Society
Saturday 22 November, 10.00-16.00
History Around Us
Tyndale Baptist Church by Clifton Down shopping centre, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2QG
BMHS Next Event | Bristol Medico Chiru
Society of Apothecaries – Centre for Health Studies
Monday 24 November 2025, 18.30-19.30
Sydney Selwyn and Osler Lectures
Monica Aquilina: An argument for providing more detailed ethical guidelines for doctors giving medical advice to family and friends
Daniel Sokol: Error to Ethics: essential lessons from teaching clinicians in trouble
Society of Apothecaries, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ
https://www.apothecaries.org/events/category/cfhs-events/
Old Operating Theatre Museum
Monday 24 November 2025
Museum After Dark
St Thomas’ Church, 9a St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/museum-after-dark/
December 2025
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
Monday 1 December, 18.30-19.30 online
Halil Tekiner, Erciyes University School of Pharmacy, Turkey: A Dose of satire: Caricatures Tracing the History of Turkish Pharmacy
https://www.bshp.org/events
British Society for the History of ENT
4 Dec 2025 12:00PM – 17.00
Annual Meeting 2025
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, Westminster, London, W1G 0AE
https://www.entuk.org/events/312/bshent_british_society_for_the_history_of_ent_annual_meeting_2025/
Royal College of Physicians Museum
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 17.30-20.00
Museum late: A body of knowledge and festive crafts
11 St Andrews Place London NW1 4LE
https://history.rcp.ac.uk/events
History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine
Friday 5 December 2025, 18.00-20.00, in person and online
Sarah Hughes Memorial Lecture
Emily Hills, clinical specialist occupational therapist, and Lindsay Hardy, paediatric occupational therapist: The Power of 8: understanding our senses for safety, regulation and learning
1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/history-of-medicine/2025-26/hsu02/
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
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.
