A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇

Big day in Finnish #DisabilityStudies on Friday @helsinki.fi as @pekkakoskinen.bsky.social publicly defends his doctoral thesis on disabled people's activism in Finland. More info, here (inc. a download link for the thesis!): tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6... Go Pekka!

Smashing! I notice that @claireljones.bsky.social's intro to her soon-to-be released #DisHist source collection is now available online as a 'preview pdf' via the publisher's site. Definitely going on my must-read list! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain

YAY! Brilliant to see Nina Geerdink & Victoria Nyst's article about a deaf woman in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries out in BMGN! This is really SUCH cool research, making you think about what it is we study when we study #DisabilityHistory -- plus introducing an intriguing figure to me at least.

Been dipping into this thought-provoking chap by Dijkstra, @singingarchives.bsky.social & Hofman in Hung & @willemijnruberg.bsky.social's edited vol recently: www.google.fi/books/editio... Lots to chew over & well worth a read, #DisHist, #EmoHist & @hexhistory.bsky.social folks!

SJDR continues to foster greater global exchange of critical ideas as we are now Diamond Open Access. This means authors pay no fees. We're happy to discuss paper ideas and editorial process, more information here: sjdr.se. Come greet us at Leeds Disability Studies Conference in April! 💎

This #DisabilityHistory event @eui-history.bsky.social is TOMORROW, Folks! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

Lovely! Seems there's some #DisHist on the menu over at @eui-history.bsky.social next week (25 March). Monika Baár on 'Disability Beyond the "from Isolation to Integration Narrative"': www.eui.eu/events?id=58... It's hybrid too, apparently. Hooray!

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...

After a smashing first day, the #ELBOW conference continues this morning with another enticing keynote. @oulu.fi's Markku Hokkanen on 'experimentation & cross-cultural medical encounters in South-Central Africa, c. 1850s-1900s'. elbowresearch.com/programme/ Time to grab a coffee & get going!

Off to the #ELBOW 'Between Marginal & Mainstream' conference this morning @helsinki.fi. Lots of fab-sounding presentations on the prog, starting with @laurenkassell.bsky.social's keynote on 'Bedside Medicine in #EarlyModern England'. Can't wait to get started! #HistSci elbowresearch.com/programme/

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...

A couple of months ago, I was a guest on the Global Health Histories podcast series, talking about the history of medical care provision for disabled ex-servicemen in Britain after the First World War. The episode is now available and can be found here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directories1... #ww1 #histmed

#CFP for a special issue on 'Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion' that might be of interest to #DisHist folks. The editors are esp interested in receiving proposals that foreground premodern perspectives. #Skystorians Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2026 www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...

Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

If ancient Rome's your thing, #DisHist folks, there's still time to submit a proposal to this workshop @helsinki.fi.

Nice to notice some #DisHist on the programme this week at the IHR. Online participation possible too!

‪Ahoy there, #DisHist crew! Interesting #CFP alert! Some fab folks @helsinki.fi are organising a workshop on ancient Rome and they're after proposals: antiikintutkimus.fi/call-for-pap... DL for submissions: 2 March!

Arkkitehti, väitöskirjatutkija Marja Rautaharju kirjoittaa parhaillaan historian alan väitöskirjaa esteettömyysasiantuntijuuden muotoutumisesta Suomessa arkkitehti Maija Könkkölän (1947–2012) varhaisen uran limittyneissä konteksteissa. kynnys.fi/verkkolehti/...

Nice to learn about @elisaheinrich.bsky.social's research @eui-history.bsky.social in this: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=... Will surely be of interest to @beckierutherford.bsky.social + other #DisHist folks working on activism.

Excited to see the new volume Early Modern Bodies edited by Sarah Toulalan (2026, but already out)! Also happy that my book History of the Body is mentioned in the Introduction as "an excellent survey of the field published in 2019". www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...

As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

We are starting to plan our monthly events schedule for next year and we would love your input! Would you like to lead one of our sessions? Or do you have any ideas for speakers/themes that you would like to see explored? Please do get in touch! #DisHist

Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist archivum.org/news/executi...

#DisabilityHistoryMonth starts today! The Railway Work, Life & Death project is an important resource for understanding occupational disability in the past, via the railways. Read more about just a few of the people whose life stories we've explored: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk?s=disability

A reminder that this is happening on Wednesday!

Check out new new #histmed CFPs added to our page: 'Life Histories in Mind: Mental ILL Health and Learning Disability in Context' Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 July 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026 Organised by Rob Ellis and Rebecca Ball @re-histories.bsky.social #DisHist

A reminder that this is happening THIS Wednesday! #DisHist

Hi #DisHist / #DisabilityStudies Folks! If you've been awarded a PhD in the last 5 yrs (or due to get one in 2026!) & would like to publish an open access book, this might be of interest: www.peterlang.com/for-authors/... DL: 31 Jan 2026. Seems books can be in English, French, Spanish or German!

Been dipping into this OPEN ACCESS offering by @parkerchronicle.bsky.social recently and there's lots here that will interest #DisHist folks working on any period, not only those in the #MedievalSky crew. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...