Future history of medicine events

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

Friends of Millbank Present

Friday, 30 January 2026, 17.30-18.15 (AGM); 18.30 (talk) 

Lt Gen (retd) Martin Bricknell: Strategic medical lessons from the 20th Century to inform the 21st; The contemporary relevance of military medical history

Millbank (Chelsea College of Arts) 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU https://www.friendsofmillbank.org 

 

February 2026

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

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE

https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/history-of-medicine/2025-26/hsu04/

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, anniversary dinner 1930

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/

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