30 years ago today the Disability Discrimination Act became law in the UK. We're at Insole Court, Cardiff today for #BeingHumanFestival25 reflecting on it's legacy

Great to be at the Being Human Festival launch at the BFI, showcasing our event on disability activism and the Disability Discrimination Act #disabiliyhistory #publichumanities

Out now! William Dodd Fights the Factories - me discussing the Industrial Revolution, factory reform and the history of Victorian disability activism www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Out now! William Dodd Fights the Factories - me discussing the Industrial Revolution, factory reform and the history of Victorian disability activism www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Request for help from the autistic community! 💜♾️ I'm writing a book about autistic people's relationships with food & drink, and I want to include more personal examples/stories than just my own If anyone is interested in contributing, this survey link has more info: www.surveymonkey.com/r/PGCYTJP

My talk on 18th century histories of disability and resistance at the Institute of Historical Research is now available as a podcast www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

How do history undergraduates routinely use generative AI in the classroom? In a new post on the RHS blog, David Clayton, Henrice Altink & Esther Wilson review their recent project: 'Piloting the responsible and effective use of generative AI in undergraduate History Teaching' bit.ly/40loJUG 1/2

This week! Creative consultation event on Welsh Government's Disabled People's Action Plan organised by Autistic UK and Disability Arts Cymru www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-life-my...

This week! Creative consultation event on Welsh Government's Disabled People's Action Plan organised by Autistic UK and Disability Arts Cymru www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-life-my...

OUT FOR ONE MONTH! The updated Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British & Irish railway staff, 1855-1939. Exactly a month ago we added 69,000 records - & 2000 of you have downloaded, with 14.6k views: thank you! See:

Today! 👇

Next week I'll be speaking on the long history of disabled people's agency and resistance at the Institute of Historical Research. Everyone welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

Welsh Government's Disabled People's Rights plan is now open for consultation. Follow the link to read the recommendations and have your say: www.gov.wales/draft-disabl...

Here we go folks: hitchcockian.medium.com/this-is-the-...

Monday is International Workers Memorial Day - #IWMD #IWMD25 This is a really important day for the Railway Work, Life & Death project, given our focus. On Monday, every hour for 24 hours, we'll post details of past UK railway staff hurt by their work: follow #IWMDHourByHour

We're hiring! Postdoctoral researcher post on the AMEND project exploring early modern neurodivergence, working with Dr Laura Seymour www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI655/p...

ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England. Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme. 1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Check out this blog post by Jess Gregory, my PhD student, on indecent advertisements in public toilets in the late c19th/early 20th: blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-history-...

Artist y Mis Disability Arts Cymru Artist of the Month: Rightkeysonly 🎶 An EDM artist, known for bringing experimental beats and heavy baselines to the music sector of Wales. Dysgwch fwy am ei sengl newydd 'dRip' nawr: amam.cymru/disability-a...

What a pleasure #BSECS2025 was! Thanks to the organisers for inviting me and for everyone who came to hear my keynote, the biggest gig of my career!

Excited to be giving the keynote at #BSECS2025. Looking forward to meeting everyone and catching up with some old friends.

A fascinating resource comprising union & labour movement journals from @mrcwarwick.bsky.social

Hello, Radio 3. Do you have a picture of Béla Bartók right at the moment the lead detective asks him to open his fridge?

As part of Disability History Month I did an interview for the BBC's Access All podcast, discussing histories of disability and work and busting some myths. Listen (or access the transcript) here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Lowercase #hashtags are inaccessible to blind folks—and they confuse everyone. In 2012, #susanalbumparty earned singer Susan Boyle the wrong kind of attention. Capitalizing #EachNewWord (aka #CamelCase) would’ve prevented the #SocialMediaFail. #LetThisGuideYou #AccessHelpsEveryone #Disability

It's Disability History Month and there are lots of resources on this year's theme of employment and livelihood (including a long interview with me) on the #UKDHM website ukdhm.org/category/res...

Come visit my current temporary exhibition: MAPPING AN UNEVEN PATH: STORIES OF HEALTH AND DISABILITY AT VERULAMIUM 15th November 2024 - 23rd February 2025 Explore what archaeology can tell us about Roman ideas about health and disability. www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/map...

UK #DisabilityHistoryMonth starts today! I'll be trying to share interesting material & historians throughout. But, as good an introduction as any: last year I spoke on 'Disability & Mobility Aids in Britain 1600–1800' & the video & transcript are here. dremilycock.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/d...

Long before the modern disabled people’s movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. @profdavidturner.bsky.social investigates the development of disabled people’s activism in Victorian Britain.

Disability Historians starter pack. The more the merrier: go.bsky.app/4MB7iob

Disability History Month begins this week and I'll be presenting a short overview of the history of disability and work at the online launch on Thursday. Details of the event and how to join can be found here: ukdhm.org/events/

#History hat on here, link to a brilliant online #Disability #coproduced #archive (needs print version for deposit libraries) But my interest area is the stuff happening outside these state policy/institutions 1960s on #GapsInTheArchives www.lancslearningdisabilityinstitutions.org.uk

We tend to position disabled people in 'cared for' roles in histories of the family, but in 19th century working class households they were also carers and contributors. My new article for JEMH journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Out today! My piece for History Workshop on the long history of disabled people's political activism and the Victorian precursors of the social model of disability

Over 500 online and open access collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents listed here hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

New publication: The Material Body, Ed. Lizzy Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey. Great to contribute a chapter, co-written with archaeologist Sophie Newman, on using skeletal and documentary evidence to research embodied experiences of disability and old age in the Industrial Revolution.

A long-forgotten medical thesis from 1938 uncovers the physical and psychic distress of London factory girls. Sally Alexander explores Dr Garland's remarkable thesis and the lives which it documents. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/dr-th...

Proud of my former PhD student Gemma Almond-Brown on the publication of her book, Spectacles and the Victorians, which examines how new technologies of measuring and correcting vision created categories of 'normal' eyesight and sight impairment in 19thc Britain #skystorians #disabilityhistory

Robert Saunders, 'How Do We Write the History of Brexit?' - an excellent article - now open access #skystorians #Brexit 🗃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UKAR2C...