Future history of medicine events

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

Friends of Millbank

Friday, 13 March 2026, 18.30

Haywood Memorial Lecture

The Evolution of Military Emergency Medicine: are we ready for the next war? Major General (rtd) Timothy Hodgetts Millbank, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU and Zoom https://www.friendsofmillbank.org/programme-2026/

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 Medicine and collecting in early modern London, Katrina Maydom, pharmaceutical historian 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

Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

Saturday 28 March 2026, lunch 13.00-14.00, presentations 14.00-17.00

Spring meeting, Merchants House, George Square, Glasgow https://www.sshm.co.uk/  

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