Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist
January 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New #DisHist book
From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
February 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New #DisHist book
📖 New publication by Prof. Lucia Dacome! The article is open access for one month—a great opportunity to explore this important contribution to the histories of slavery, medicine, and disability.
Read it here: academic.oup.com/past/article...
Read it here: academic.oup.com/past/article...
September 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist
January 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Joan Curran #Welsh #physicist #engineer with "scientific equivalent of gardening green fingers". Studied @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. #WWII invented Chaff radar countermeasur. Later worked on #ManhattanProject. Became campaigner for disability rights #DisHist b. #OTD 26 Feb 1916 bit.ly/3bpzeM7
February 26, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Joan Curran #Welsh #physicist #engineer with "scientific equivalent of gardening green fingers". Studied @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. #WWII invented Chaff radar countermeasur. Later worked on #ManhattanProject. Became campaigner for disability rights #DisHist b. #OTD 26 Feb 1916 bit.ly/3bpzeM7
You actually can't teach DisHist without military history.
There is no way around it--and most disability historians end up reading, writing and researching disability amongst veterans, soldiers and civilians in some capacity or the other.
The problem is some people don't acknowledge our work.
There is no way around it--and most disability historians end up reading, writing and researching disability amongst veterans, soldiers and civilians in some capacity or the other.
The problem is some people don't acknowledge our work.
At a CHA six or so years ago two mil historians gave a paper citing the death of military history because only x-number of classes in Canada had those words in the title. Sitting there, having just taught a Disability History course with a large mil history component, I was stupefied.
I’m crying
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You actually can't teach DisHist without military history.
There is no way around it--and most disability historians end up reading, writing and researching disability amongst veterans, soldiers and civilians in some capacity or the other.
The problem is some people don't acknowledge our work.
There is no way around it--and most disability historians end up reading, writing and researching disability amongst veterans, soldiers and civilians in some capacity or the other.
The problem is some people don't acknowledge our work.
PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
www.aup.nl
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇
For the project DisFriend, I am looking for two PhD candidates: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3610...
Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnational history of friendship and disability
2 PhD Positions in the transnational history of friendship and disability The Institute for History at the University of Leiden invites applications for: Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnation...
www.academictransfer.com
May 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇
Kylie's amazing #DisHist #histmed book Jim Crow in the Asylum is out today.
Its also open access, so sharing the link for anyone interested in the histories of race and disability, systemic racism in medicine, histories of madness and asylums, histories of the US South, and more
Its also open access, so sharing the link for anyone interested in the histories of race and disability, systemic racism in medicine, histories of madness and asylums, histories of the US South, and more
Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship
<h3>Untangling the relationship between race and psychiatry in the American South</h3>
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama...
jimcrowintheasylum.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
(New Book) Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/hand... #dishist
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
(New Book) Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/hand... #dishist
New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist
Thanks Oli! Once again sneaking braille into everything I do… #Braille200 #DisHist
You've heard about Rail200 this year, but what about Braille200?
Our amazing WROCAH placement student @tillyguthrie.bsky.social explains the dual history of Braille and the Railways in Britain:
blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/braille-200/
Our amazing WROCAH placement student @tillyguthrie.bsky.social explains the dual history of Braille and the Railways in Britain:
blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/braille-200/
Braille 200 - National Railway Museum blog
PhD researcher Tilly Guthrie highlights that this year marks not only 200 years of the railways, but also of the invention of Braille.
blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk
August 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Thanks Oli! Once again sneaking braille into everything I do… #Braille200 #DisHist
Finally got my hands on this #DisHist nugget from @profdavidturner.bsky.social.
Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!
Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!
July 15, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Finally got my hands on this #DisHist nugget from @profdavidturner.bsky.social.
Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!
Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!
Please help spread the word #medievalsky!
Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...
www.academictransfer.com
March 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
(Parution) La société inclusive introuvable. L’institution du handicap au XXIe siècle histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/lins... #dishist
March 15, 2026 at 8:57 PM
(Parution) La société inclusive introuvable. L’institution du handicap au XXIe siècle histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/lins... #dishist
The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize, in partnership w/the Disability Histories series & @disability-history.bsky.social, is now open for submissions! Visit go.illinois.edu/DisabilityHi... for submission guidelines.
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #dishist
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #dishist
March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize, in partnership w/the Disability Histories series & @disability-history.bsky.social, is now open for submissions! Visit go.illinois.edu/DisabilityHi... for submission guidelines.
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #dishist
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #dishist
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
'"your poore distressed suppliant": ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England', by Jonathan Willis bit.ly/4mM49G4
How can perspectives from the history of emotions inform understanding of 'madness' in early modern England? 1/2
'"your poore distressed suppliant": ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England', by Jonathan Willis bit.ly/4mM49G4
How can perspectives from the history of emotions inform understanding of 'madness' in early modern England? 1/2
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If you're new to the Hub, then you can find out more about us and sign up to our mailing lists on our website: #DisHist
ukdishisthub.mystrikingly.com
ukdishisthub.mystrikingly.com
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub on Strikingly
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February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you're new to the Hub, then you can find out more about us and sign up to our mailing lists on our website: #DisHist
ukdishisthub.mystrikingly.com
ukdishisthub.mystrikingly.com
Really pleased to finally be able to launch this CFP! Please do consider joining us at the British Library or online for a day of exploring collections and #DisHist!
CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online.
Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
June 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Really pleased to finally be able to launch this CFP! Please do consider joining us at the British Library or online for a day of exploring collections and #DisHist!
Because we needed some cheering up in my Law, Public Health, and Injustice seminar, today we covered Buck v Bell
/intensesarcasm #ITeech #PHLaw #PHEthx #HistoryMatters #Disability #DisHist
/intensesarcasm #ITeech #PHLaw #PHEthx #HistoryMatters #Disability #DisHist
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Because we needed some cheering up in my Law, Public Health, and Injustice seminar, today we covered Buck v Bell
/intensesarcasm #ITeech #PHLaw #PHEthx #HistoryMatters #Disability #DisHist
/intensesarcasm #ITeech #PHLaw #PHEthx #HistoryMatters #Disability #DisHist
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...
www.routledge.com
March 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
(Journée d'études) Trajectoires individuelles et vie quotidienne des personnes infirmes, sourdes ou aliénées, de la préhistoire à nos jours histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/05/traj... #histpsych #dishist
May 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
(Journée d'études) Trajectoires individuelles et vie quotidienne des personnes infirmes, sourdes ou aliénées, de la préhistoire à nos jours histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/05/traj... #histpsych #dishist
Join us on Wednesday for a day filled with #DisHist!
We are really pleased to announce that booking is now open for our 2025 Connecting + Sharing event! Join us and a host of exciting presenters on Zoom on the 25th June to hear about a variety of work in/about #DisHist!
To see the programme and book a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/ukdhhh-202...
To see the programme and book a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/ukdhhh-202...
UKDHHH 2025 Connecting + Sharing Event
Join us at the UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing event to hear more about those working with, or interested in, disability histories.
www.eventbrite.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Join us on Wednesday for a day filled with #DisHist!