Future history of medicine events
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
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/
Friends of Millbank
Friday, 27 February, from 17.30
Sir John Pringle (1707-1782) bringing Enlightenment thinking to the battlefield, Mr Iain Macintyre, joint editor
Scotland’s Contribution to Naval and Military Medicine and Surgery
Millbank (Chelsea College of Arts) 16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU
https://www.friendsofmillbank.org
March 2026
History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine
Wednesday 11 March 2026, from 17.30
Nora Schuster Prize evening
Keynote: “
Medical Missionaries in China: a multi-generational family perspective,” Professor Sir Mark Walport
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE
https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/history-of-medicine/2025-26/hsu05/
Bristol Medico-Historical Society
Saturday, 14 March 2026, 10.00-16.00
History around us
Tyndale Baptist Church, Whiteladies Rd, Redland, Bristol
https://www.bristolmedchi.co.uk/about-6-3
Centre for Health Studies, Society of Apothecaries
Monday 16 March 2026, 18.30-19.30: Gideon De Laune Lecture and Monckton Copeman Lecture
Alligators, carboys and green crosses – pharmacy symbols, part, present and future, Briony Hudson, pharmaceutical historian
Monckton Copeman lecturer to be announced
Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ
https://www.apothecaries.org/events/category/cfhs-events/
Hunterian Society
Monday 16 March 2026, scientific meeting and council
Hunterian Lecture
Prof. James Larkin, Medical Oncologist, Royal Marsden Hospital.
The History and Recent Developments of Immunotherapy in Solid Tumour Management’
Lettsom House 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square,, London, United Kingdom
https://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/calendar/
Osler Club of London
Thursday 19 March 2026, from 18.30
“Samuel Purchas and the Anatomy of Virginia,” Dr Peter Mitchell, University of Wales
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
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