Interesting in neurodivergent and disabled accessibility, archives and heritage, or both? Last day to register for "Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness" (free online symposium, 17th and 18th November)!

The Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture will be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social next week! There are still some tickets left available to attend either in person or online. So if interested, check out the Eventbrite link in the quoted message. 🗃️

We're blown away by the level of interest so far and looking forward to a great couple of days exploring accessibility and/in archives and collections!

And I’ve teamed up with my fab colleagues @riacheyne.bsky.social @luciejones83.bsky.social for the second day. Please come along to either/both and dip in and out as you can

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website! -Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net -Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...

“Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing” by Ann‑Marie Foster / @amfoster.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production

Tickets available via the link to sign up, great range of speakers on everything from slavery to remembrance and pageantry to stokers - full programme here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB 'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2

A proper 12-month replacement post with decent salary (for UKHE, at least) in modern European history. Belfast is a decent place to live - relatively affordable apart from extortionate pint prices - and I can personally vouch for what a great & friendly School we have. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE451/l...

Had a lovely day chatting&zine making at today’s Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop. Thank you to everyone who shared ND archive experiences with me & @amfoster.bsky.social. Big shout to Rhian @glamarchives.bsky.social’s for hosting us! The tour & mugs were splendid additions.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Been too busy to post about this, but we've had a brilliant day exploring neurodivergent archive accessibility at our first @edicaucus.bsky.social funded workshop!

Had a fantastic day with @riacheyne.bsky.social for the @edicaucus.bsky.social funded Divergent Minds in the Archive. We collected thoughts, made zines, guzzled ice water, and deeply enjoyed the video that @luciejones83.bsky.social made to introduce the afternoon activities.

Are you a neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archives or library professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archives or library professional who can offer insights into accessibility?

Details of our upcoming online workshop with @scotsarchives.bsky.social, and our face-to-face workshops in Cardiff and Glasgow, at the link! Apply by 30th June.

#skyhistorians We are happy to announce our Cardiff (29/07), Liverpool (14/08) and Online (18/09) workshops for our Divergent Minds in the Archive project. We are looking for all ND archive users to sign up and tell us more about your experiences. More info on the posters. Links in next messages.

SCA are hosting a workshop as part of ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’, an EDI Caucus-funded project investigating neurodivergence and archives. Find out more and apply to take part: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

#IWM Duxford explores disabled experience in #SWW www.thecomet.net/news/2524969... Very pleased to have had a role in supporting development of this forthcoming installation at #Duxford. Also thanks to local journalists for bringing these stories to their audiences. We’d be poorer without you.

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility 🔔 Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist? Applications are open for our 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshops in Cardiff, Liverpool and online - full details in thread!

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...

Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

Last two days to apply!

Still time to apply for our upcoming neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop in London on 4th July! More workshops (including online) to follow.

Now recruiting for the first workshop for our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded project on neurodivergent archive accessibility!

It’s a really exciting time to be working in access and archives in the UK, with so many new projects being launched! This one is a new network for disabled and/or chronically ill historians based in the UK.

Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔 Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist? Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!

As we’re in marking season, some thoughts on marking related burnout based on my @isrfoundation.bsky.social research on the exhaustion economy from the perspective of academics with energy limiting conditions @nadsn.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @alisonallam.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social 1/6

🧵 I’m organising workshops where autistic people can help plan research. I’m looking for a few autistic people to take part, either in a text (typed) discussion, or on a Teams video call. I’ll ask what you think about different ideas for research on the general theme of ‘autistic & thriving’. 1/5

Delighted to be speaking alongside Dr Maria Castrillo Llamas at this panel about archives and access run by the International Council on Archives as part of #IAW2025 Come hear us online, 11 June 3pm BST! www.ica.org/event/iaw202...

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Major new archive catalogue online! Explore the Yorkshire Miners' Association / National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area collection at mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/YMA More than 3,700 files/items charting the union's history from 19th century King Coal to late 20th c deindustrialisation

Recently @fwwsoc.bsky.social held an open public event with @nina-regis.bsky.social & @fheimburger.bsky.social talking about the First World War Bibliography. It's the most amazing resource for studying the war and you can now watch the whole event on our YouTube channel 🗃️ youtu.be/7Lq2sUhC8vc?...

Blog: "In Our Own Time: Precarious and Unpaid Work(loads) in Academia" co-authored by the 2 researchers of EDICa Flexible Fund project on casualised academics, Wanggren & Menard. Here they write about the hidden/silent redundancies of hourly or fixed-term staff. ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/4e7z54f...

Q for #AcademicSky: starting a collaborative research project with one external and one internal colleague. We'd like to have a shared project email account (that we can all access) and calendar. Has anyone done this? IT have offered us a MS Group, but that doesn't allow the external full access.

The Curating for Change exhibition, 'Nothing Without Us: Experiences of Disability', is now available as a 360-virtual tour with extensive accessibility options. Visit the exhibition online at: www.360studioradar.com/360/PittRive... Find more info at: prm.ox.ac.uk/curating-for...

A 4-year full-time (100%) postdoctoral position - part of the European Research Council project, “The Hidden Weapon. Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars (BLOCKADE)”. #WWI historians check it out !! Deadline 18. April 2025 >> uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... @fwwsoc.bsky.social

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

You can read our latest Accessibility & Archives blog post here bit.ly/43S2fgf In this post, Philip Milnes-Smith reflects on disability owing to rickets and the need to think about the past with more than one model of disability.

Please join us for the Remote Access Archive Launch Party with @criticaldesignlab.bsky.social on April 22, 12:30-2PM @ Zoom. Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis". We are inviting articles on: 🎓 the history & origins of this crisis 🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching ✊ building solidarities & collective action www.historyworkshop....

CFP alert: Continuing on from the success of our 2024 in-person event, we are thrilled to announce that we are running a virtual event for 2025! This will be taking place on the 25th June 2025, on Zoom. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 11th April 2025! #DisHist #CFP