Dr Ian Miller
Book Reviews Editor
Ian Miller is Senior Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University. Ian has authored eight medical history books. The most recent History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts was shortlisted in the An Post Irish Book Awards as ‘Hodges Figgis History Book of the Year’. Earlier books looked at the force-feeding of hunger strikers, how the Irish diet changed (mostly for the worse) after the Irish Famine and the surprisingly interesting history of the Victorian stomach. In 2024, Ian published a book on the thought-provoking history of self-esteem, and has a four-volume edition on food in 19th-century Britain forthcoming in 2025.
Ian is PI on the AHRC/DfE-funded project, Epidemic Belfast, a podcast series and learning resource on Belfast’s under-explored medical history epidemic-belfast.com. He is also co-PI on CHOICE (A Community Consortium To Tackle Health Disparities For People Living with Mental Illness) and leads on projects relating to medical history on television, regional medical heritage and food poverty in Ireland (past and present).
Ian’s work has featured in Guardian, Independent, London Review of Books, New Yorker, Sunday Times, Sunday Post, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement among many others. Ian has appeared and consulted on a number of BBC, RTÉ and Disney+ stations. Recently, he has been interviewed on RTE 1 (Ray D’Arcy show), Today FM (The Last Word), Sunday Sequence (BBC Ulster), Highland Radio (Nine Till Noon) and Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk). Ian has consulted on prominent TV shows including Say Nothing, The Victorian Pharmacy and Inside Michael Moseley, and for films including Bobby Sands 1981 and Suffragette.
Ian welcomes media and policy enquiries on British, Irish and American health from around 1800.