A quarter of a century: it is hard to believe -- even as a now 'senior' member of the Centre, having joined in 2008 -- that CHM has been a community, a site of scholarship, and a platform for public meaning-making and personal mentorship for twenty-five years. This positions the Centre a something of a survivor in the current academic climate. So we are marking 2024 as the milestone that it is, and taking a moment to reflect and celebrate what the Centre has done and how it has done it from circa (of course! What is history without periodisation perils?) academic year 1998-1999 until 2023-24.

Across these pages, you can meet our CHM Anniversary Fellows and look at the monographs (many now open-access thanks to the generosity of the Wellcome Trust), edited collections and open access articles CHM scholars have produced drawing upon their time here at Warwick. You will see examples of some of our outward looking public engagement and policy work as well. This is certainly appropriate: for some, and perhaps for many of you, working with wider publics is a hallmark of the 'CHM School'!

Here, too, we celebrate CHM as a community whose members have, over the course of decades, worked to support each other across a far wider terrain than can be encompassed by modules and monographs. So you will also find CHM babies as well as CHM 'shelfies', CHM parties, gatherings and plain tomfoolery as well as serious scholarly work and issue-driven engagement. Have fun, and please share your memories and reflections with us all in the comments on our pages.

All the very best,

Roberta Bivins

Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, 2024