PublicDisabilityHist @DisHistBlog
Public Disability History blog: combining #dishist & #publichistory - Presenting Disability History / Disability Histories for the Present public-disabilityhistory.org Joined June 2017-
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Great resource here! @DisabilityHistr @DisHistBlog @daniel_blackie @DrDavidMT @DrBCCurtis
Great resource here! @DisabilityHistr @DisHistBlog @daniel_blackie @DrDavidMT @DrBCCurtis
OK #DisHist chums! Can any of you out there help the lovely folks @Europeanaeu create an online #DisabilityGallery of pre-C20 images for their brill #GalleryOfTheWeek series? I've already offered my ten cents worth. Who's next? #Disability #Twitterstorians
OK #DisHist chums! Can any of you out there help the lovely folks @Europeanaeu create an online #DisabilityGallery of pre-C20 images for their brill #GalleryOfTheWeek series? I've already offered my ten cents worth. Who's next? #Disability #Twitterstorians
Kolja: Or How Deaf People Can Be Super Spies (by @ctijsseling) public-disabilityhistory.org/2019/02/kolja-… #Deaf #DeafHistory #Dishist #DisabilityHistory
Dis/ability History as a Subject of Teaching & Learning (by Cordula Nolte & Sabine Horn @unibremen) English & German versions available public-disabilityhistory.org/2019/02/disabi… #dishist #disabilitystudies #twitterstorians
Pour des articles en français sur l'histoire du handicap ♿️, le numéro du Canadian Journal of Disability Studies de Juin 2017 est entièrement en français et en accès libre cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds… @cdsa_aceh #dishist @lauparent
YES! #dishist #publichistory #a11y
A #History of #Psychiatry in Objects (by @AlaviBettina & Ralph Hoger) public-disabilityhistory.org/2019/01/a-hist… #dishist #histpsych #publichistory #pubhist #museumobjects #archives
@DrBCCurtis @RWLDproject @reinarzhistory @MillieQED @DisIndSoc @DisHistBlog @DisabilityHistr @DisHistImages @WellcomeLibrary @SThompsonAber @SSHMedicine Beat me to it, Ben! Was gonna point to your & @SThompsonAber's fab #OA article! academic.oup.com/shm/article/27… #DisHist #HistMed #MiningHistory
NEW post on @DisHistBlog: @uppsalauni's @FranzenHelena on "Studying constructions of ‘normality’ through attitudes towards conjoined twins" #Disability #Twitterstorians
NEW POST: “Just like everyone else”: Studying constructions of "normality" through attitudes towards #conjoinedtwins by Helena Franzén @UU_University public-disabilityhistory.org/2018/10/just-l… #dishist
Looking forward to getting the new resource, covering around 500 GER workers, up as soon as checking is complete - more to follow asap! #AncestryHour @GuildOneName @FederationFHS @JackieDepelle #dishist #medhist @DisabilityHistr @DisHistBlog @HeadofSteamMus @steam_museum
Der Beitrag von Raphael Rössel und mir zu unserer Quellensammlung zur Geschichte von behinderten Menschen ist nun bei @DisHistBlog online: public-disabilityhistory.org/2018/05/a-sour…
We'd like to welcome Stefan Sunandan Honisch to our Editorial Board! Stefan holds a PhD in Education from @UBC, and is currently a Field Editor of the @PubPhilJ. He explores issues of #music, #disability, and representation. #dishist
RT @BVUKHistory: This piece was written by our former Chairman Cpt. Ian Fraser, later Lord Fraser, in our "Review" magazine Nov. 1917. He always had the men's best interests at heart #WWI #Veterans @Dis_Muse @DisabilityHistr @DisHistBlog
#becominghelenkeller on #kickstarter, kck.st/2F8YaWf . Today we became a "Project We Love" , there. Here's a fab DIY #handmade #knitting pledge reward to delight you, get the Pattern or Kit. We welcome you #disability, #a11y, #access, #blind , #blindneworld, #musesocial
The @archivists_org is conducting a survey of people with disabilities to improve #accessibility of #archives. Fill it out and pass it on: surveymonkey.com/r/CB68537 #a11y #dishist #publichistory
BIG thanks to @uppsalauni's Dept of #HistSci & Ideas for inviting me to come and speak about disability history. What a lovely city and university! And a super special thanks to @DisHistBlog's Ylva Söderfeldt for her wonderful hospitality & company during my stay!
#Disability This piece was written by our former Chairman Cpt. Ian Fraser, later Lord Fraser, in our @BlindVeterans "Review" magazine November 1917. He always had the men's best interests at heart #WWI #Veterans @Dis_Muse @DisabilityHistr @DisHistBlog

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