Dr Cat Beck
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Historian of madness and disability among seafarers in the long 18th Century
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Elisa Heinrich
8 months ago
What a great experience! Had the pleasure to serve as chair/discussant on a fantastic panel on 'Methodological Challenges in Disability History: Conceptualizing Pre- and Early Modern Disability' at the ESSHC in Leiden yesterday.
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It's been a great couple of days at
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Leiden!
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And now for our companion session "Methodological Challenges in Disability History II: Tracing Early Modern Disability". We begin with Riikka Miettinen "Experiences of disability in Early modern Swedish sources- Opportunities and gaps"
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8 months ago
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Ready for our early morning session at
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2025 "Methodological Challenges in Disability History I: Conceptualising pre- and early modern disability"
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Frances Ryan
8 months ago
“This is austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them.” My col. on Labour’s sweeping disability cuts and mark of shame.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan
The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/benefit-cuts-labour-reforms-george-osborne-politicians?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Thanks to
@drannaloismckay.bsky.social
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@ecwliv.bsky.social
for inviting me and giving me a chance to test out this work-in-progress methodology on you all!
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I finally made the leap to bluesky! In all honesty, I haven't been using twitter much since 2022, time to get back into engaging with things. Get ready for some boaty catch posts
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