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nadsn.bsky.social
NADSN
@nadsn.bsky.social
Official launch of Histories of Disability: Chapter Two!

🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 17:30–20:00 (GMT)
📍 Uni of Greenwich & online

🎟️ https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/greenwich/anthology-chapter-two-launch

Catch up: https://tinyurl.com/2jrj2jb7

#DisabilityHistory #NADSN #STAART
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM Everybody can reply
dehypotheses.bsky.social
dehypotheses
@dehypotheses.bsky.social
The Swedish podcast Vipeholmsanstalten reconstructs the world of neglect, coercion and medical experimentation in one of Sweden’s largest institutions for intellectually disabled people. Anna Derksen explores how the podcast produces historical knowledge:

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Inside “Vipeholmsanstalten”: Podcasting about Institutionalization and Memory in Sweden’s Welfare State
Analyzes the effects of podcasting both on the (his)storytelling and in redressing old abuses, here specifically about Vipeholmsanstalten, a Swedish institution that housed and treated people with intellectual disabilities.
historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM Everybody can reply
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Helen Parker-Drabble
@helenpdrabble.bsky.social
6 July 1940: Harry Drabble, aged 6, is readmitted to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital as pain from his damaged femur becomes unbearable. But the Sheffield Blitz is coming.
📖 'Yet' ebook now on sale Amazon: geni.us/ikrcxwE or tinyurl.com/bdz68ay3

#SocialHistory #DisabilityHistory #SheffieldHistory
Cover for ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability showing children being treated for bovine TB. www.helenparkerdrabble.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM Everybody can reply
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juliagebke.bsky.social
Julia Gebke
@juliagebke.bsky.social
Dear #skystorians interested in experiences and #DisabilityHistory, The 8th annual HEX Conference, Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures is coming soon (9–11/03/2026). The deadline for proposals is 30/11/2025. For the CfP, take a look here: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
Call for Papers | History of Experience | Tampere Universities
Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures 8th Annual Conference March 9-11, 2026 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere Univers...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM Everybody can reply
pollyrowena.bsky.social
Polly Atkin
@pollyrowena.bsky.social
On Tuesday! In Ambleside! Come along if you can - #NatureWriting #DorothyWordsworth #TheCompanyOfOwls #DisabilityHistory
drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26d
Join us on our Ambleside campus next Tuesday evening for this free talk with the brilliant @pollyrowena.bsky.social. All welcome - details and booking link can be found below 🍃📚🦉
drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · Sep 9
The first event in our 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by @pollyrowena.bsky.social: ‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', on Tue 7 Oct (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. Details & booking link for this free event here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM Everybody can reply
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Rae Gillibrand
@raegillibrand.bsky.social
Had such a fantastic time at the British Science Festival on Saturday. It was a joy to connect with so many brilliant researchers. Thank you to @britsciassoc.bsky.social for making me this year’s Award Lecturer for Science & the Arts - it’s been incredible! #BSF25 #histmed #disabilityhistory
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM Everybody can reply
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farrahgarland.bsky.social
Farrah Garland
@farrahgarland.bsky.social
Do you know about this INCREDIBLE human?!
If you don't, you should - open.substack.com/pub/thefarra... or link in bio ✒️

#SubstackWriters #ClarenceCarter #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityTidbits #AmWriting #DeafBlind #Musician #contemporary
September 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM Everybody can reply
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julieh80.bsky.social
Dr Julie Holder
@julieh80.bsky.social
See if you can spot him in the online image @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 2/2 #DisabilityHistory
Collection entry | National Museums Scotland
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www.nms.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM Everybody can reply
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julieh80.bsky.social
Dr Julie Holder
@julieh80.bsky.social
There is a huge painting at the National War Museum where so much is going on you can always discover something new. Today I found out that the man in the middle back pointing to the left & missing his left arm is General Archibald Alison. en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Diction... 1/2 #DisabilityHistory
Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Alison, Archibald - Wikisource, the free online library
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September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM Everybody can reply
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helenpdrabble.bsky.social
Helen Parker-Drabble
@helenpdrabble.bsky.social
UK Disability History Month is 14 November to 20 December this year. The theme is 'disability, livelihood and employment'.

Do you know where I might submit a piece to highlight forgotten family members, please?

#GenHour #DisabilityHistory #AncestryHour #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Disability
The image is of Harry Drabble Jnr and Senior. Young Harry contracted bovine TB from drinking infected milk when he was two years old in 1936.
September 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM Everybody can reply
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labelreads.bsky.social
Beyond Label Reads
@labelreads.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday to the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990! This landmark legislation was a major step forward for disability rights in the United States. #DisabilityHistory #ADA #Inclusion
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM Everybody can reply
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farrahgarland.bsky.social
Farrah Garland
@farrahgarland.bsky.social
Did you know that a disabled man shaped the city of San Diego?
Learn more! - open.substack.com/pub/thefarra... or link in bio ✒️

#SubstackWriters #CharlesDali #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityTidbits #AmWriting #Polio #SanDiego #politics #NoPaywall
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM Everybody can reply
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swanseahistory.bsky.social
History at Swansea University
@swanseahistory.bsky.social
You can access the recording of Professor David Turner's paper here, too! #disabilityhistory
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 19
Wednesday 25 June 5:30pm: last chance to catch a British History in the Long 18th Century (IHR) Seminar live until the autumn. Hybrid session, in London & online. David Turner (Swansea University), speaking on 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’.
Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
www.history.ac.uk
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM Everybody can reply
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utarcher.bsky.social
Lindsey Carmichael
@utarcher.bsky.social
I teared up to learn @snarkbat.bsky.social wrote the Capitol Crawl into a Marvel Avengers Academy comic—vital #DisabilityHistory that I didn't learn about till I was in my 30s—and now Charles Xavier was canonically THERE. 😭

Working it into worldbuilding, and trusting your audience to look it up!
August 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM Everybody can reply
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jaivirdi.com
Jaipreet Virdi
@jaivirdi.com
New update!

I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.

Latest book: Echoes of Care (‪@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social‬)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM Everybody can reply
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jecture-a11y.bsky.social
jecture
@jecture-a11y.bsky.social
Stacey Park Milbern, a disability justice icon, will appear on a U.S. quarter. Love this.
webable.com/articles/dis...
#RepresentationMatters #DisabilityHistory #Accessibility
Disability Activist To Be Featured On US Quarter - WebABLE™
A prominent disability justice activist will soon appear on quarters issued by the U.S. Mint as part of a special program honoring notable American women. The post Disability Activist To…
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August 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM Everybody can reply
srsrensoc.bsky.social
Society for Renaissance Studies
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
CFP: Speech/less in the Early Modern World
Keynote speakers: Rosamund Oates

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 April 2026
Deadline: 26 September 2025

All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/speech... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #DisabilityHistory #HistDisability
The articulation of rational speech has been privileged throughout history as the best evidence for humanness, reason, and even emotion. Yet speechlessness was a common part of early modern life. All human infants were born without speech and, throughout the life cycle, speech could be impeded or even silenced, temporarily or permanently, by deafness, illness, disability, enslavement and other forms of oppression, as well as various other events, like demonic possession, drunkenness, and cross-lingual encounters. Histories of the body have established the centrality and dynamism of the body and of the senses to early modern experience. However, the condition of speechlessness (in its multiple forms), and the myriad ways in which early modern bodies experienced, sensed, and circumvented speechlessness, have escaped direct historical attention. This workshop asks what it meant to be speechless in the early modern world. It will draw out the power of ‘speechless’ people to communicate (social, political, emotional) meanings, generate knowledge, and affect others, and will highlight the potential for non-verbal sounds and gestures to act as alternative ‘speech’ forms. In doing so, Speech/less in the Early Modern World will complicate the way speechlessness continues to be equated, all too easily, with historical silence and lack of knowledge or agency.
August 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM Everybody can reply
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illinoispress.bsky.social
University of Illinois Press
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Happy Pub Date to CRIPPING THE ARCHIVE: Disability, History, & Power edited by @jenbarclay.bsky.social & @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #Nonfiction

cc: @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social
Cripping the Archive Disability, History, and Power Author: Edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
August 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM Everybody can reply
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lcarterlong.bsky.social
Lawrence Carter-Long
@lcarterlong.bsky.social
Why does tonight’s #DisabilityFilm showcase on @tcmtv.bsky.social in partnership w/@reelabilities.bsky.social matter? Because programming and perspective matter.

During #DisabilityPride — and every month.

More here:
reelabilities.org/dis-and-that...
#DisabilityHistory #InclusiveMedia #ClassicFilm
Why the “Disability in Film” Showcase on Turner Classic Movies Matters
ReelAbilities on TCM
reelabilities.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM Everybody can reply
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access-include.bsky.social
Accessibility & Inclusion Consulting LLC
@access-include.bsky.social
Judy Heumann, the "Mother of Disability Rights" was a major player in making the Americans with Disabilities Act become law.

#DisabilityHistory
#DisabilityRights
#disabilityactivism
July 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM Everybody can reply
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disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Disability Daily Podcast
@disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Photos: Ability360 (Olin); Tom Olin (Capitol Crawl)

#DisabilityDaily #ADA #Section504 #dyslexia #EduSky #Historysky #Skystorians #DisHist #DisabilityHistory
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM Everybody can reply
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helenpdrabble.bsky.social
Helen Parker-Drabble
@helenpdrabble.bsky.social
LAST CHANCE! Campaign closes 8 PM, Tue 22 July. Help publish ‘Yet’, a memoir of resilience, trauma, and triumph over exclusion. Let’s honour the children who spent months & years in hospital separated from their parents. 🌟
👉 [bit.ly/YetHarry]
#DisabilityHistory #Resilience #Memoir #ForgottenHistory
July 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM Everybody can reply
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ncph.bsky.social
National Council on Public History
@ncph.bsky.social
"This is a Place We Made: Centering Place in Disability History" will take place this Thursday, July 24 from 1-2:30pm ET. Learn more and register today at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... CART & ASL will be provided.

#PublicHistory #DisabilityHistory #virtualprograms #virtualprogram
ncph.bsky.social National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · Jul 7
Join us on 7/24 from 1-2:30pm ET for a #VirtualProgram discussion of the forthcoming NCPH-NPS authored anthology, “Disability in Place.” Learn more about the work and process of this project and why it matters for the current moment. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #PublicHistory
Flyer featuring information for "This is the Place we made: Centering Place in Disability History" CART and ASL will be provdied. Happening on Thursday, July 24 from 1-2:30 ET
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM Everybody can reply
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kghist.bsky.social
Prof Kate Loder
@kghist.bsky.social
Jane Freer (c 1740-1790). Brought up in London’s Foundling Hospital, Freer (who was blind) composed keyboard sonatas.
#histed #disabilityhistory #womencomposers

I’m sure you’ll know it @deeplyclassical.bsky.social, but finding this useful for little known C18 composers: youtu.be/WYMjTnmT6rM?...
Jane Freer (c.1740-c.1790) - Sonata for the harpsichord
YouTube video by Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
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July 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM Everybody can reply
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utarcher.bsky.social
Lindsey Carmichael
@utarcher.bsky.social
I used to have daydreams (more like waking nightmares) about what my life would have been like with my rare fragile bone condition #FDMAS if I'd been born anytime before the 1980s. The specter of it haunts me, the more I learn about #DisabilityHistory. 5/
July 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply
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