Sometimes with work events it’s just about the view! 🤩🤩🤩 @paraheritage.bsky.social @thecrownestate.bsky.social

I really enjoyed this presentation, and the resulting discussions! I think we were all in agreement that we could have chatted about this for much much longer!

We're excited to present you with NGG's academic programme for this winter term! Looking forward to seeing you! @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist

Got a project? Half a project? Just a vague, Jewish history daydream? Present it at one of our Work in Progress seminars! Share what you’re currently working on (academic or otherwise — thesis chapters, articles, art) and get constructive feedback from our supportive group.

🚨Our monthly events are back!🚨 Join us and Dr Tobias Teutenberg on the 19th September at 5pm (UK time) for a presentation and discussion on “Tempted to Touch: The History of Tactile Art Galleries for the Blind”! #DisHist

TWO tenure track jobs in #DisabilityStudies at the University of Buffalo! Teaching and research interests in gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or Indigenous cultures or methodologies preferred. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57847

Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

ICYMI: The #StarTrek and hard sciences origins of my most qualitative and fuzzy work - HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, out from @ucpress.bsky.social this fall - was the subject of this podcast interview on the @hpspodcast.bsky.social. #histsci #earlymodern 💙📚 🧪 🗃

CALL FOR TEXTS: I'm asking your help to find texts for the 2026 Reading Group that help us to have conversations about 'Cripping Methodology' (working title). Can you fill in this form to give your suggestion(s)? (required: full reference / PDF) docs.google.com/forms/d/1bMW...

had a great time at the Divergent Minds in the Archive Workshop today at Liverpool Central Library. Some really productive conversations about barriers for neurodiversity in using or working with archives - and conversations with really lovely people as well! #neurodiveristy #archives #inclusion

✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨ #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Look what arrived! @astrosnat.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter ‘The Spoken Word is Not Neutral’ in the ‘Cripping the Archive’ collection edited by @jenbarclay.bsky.social and @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social that was just published by @illinoispress.bsky.social! #Dishist #Neurodiveristy #OralHistory

Come work with a group of passionate museum educators! Happy to answer any questions about the position:

Hot off the press: new #OpenAccess book, co-edited by our colleague Dr Amelia Bonea: #Women, #science, #engineering and #medicine in the twentieth century. doi.org/10.7765/9781... #HistSTM #HistSci

Happy Pub Date to CRIPPING THE ARCHIVE: Disability, History, & Power edited by @jenbarclay.bsky.social & @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #Nonfiction cc: @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social

Event announcement! 📣 HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025 🤝 Join HL+ and friends for a day of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions that will bring the ECR community together in Belfast. Thursday 25th September - 11:15am to 9pm. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for interested parties in a panel for @bsecs.bsky.social January 2026! Theme this year is Big/Small. My paper will focus on small comforts + large discomforts in 18th c. letter writing. Let me know if you are interested #18c @cecs-york.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

Seeking contributors to a zine to hand out at Labour Party conference, about disability and current state of things. 120-350 words per topic.

The 2 August is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, marked on the anniversary of the night in 1944 when the ‘Gypsy Family Camp’ at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liquidated Thousands of men, women and children of Roma or Sinti origin were murdered in the gas chambers buff.ly/xkvAVvP

We're delighted to share that our Collections Engagement Officer Dr. @sambrady.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @socialhistory.bsky.social Pamela Cox Public History Prize for the 'Story of the Games' - his very first public exhibition. 🏆 Well done Sam! 👏 ♿🏛️🎓

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

New CFP for a Topic Collection on Visual Medical Humanities with @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline January 5, 2026. mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Are you a disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodivergent professional with a passion for sales and marketing, or customer service and operational administration? @aat-transcribes.bsky.social is hiring! Come work with me academicaudiotranscription.com/work-with-us/

I was absolutely delighted to be awarded the Paula Cox Public History Award at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference a few weeks ago. I received this award for my work on @paraheritage.bsky.social ‘Story of the Games’ exhibition. Read more here: lnkd.in/eDC_Zm9g

Entry to the 2025 @britrecs.bsky.social Janette Harley Prize is now open. £500 prize for the best/most original piece of work published or made publicly available which has promoted the preservation, understanding, accessibility or study of archives Deadline: 31 July 2025. More details 👇

I mean, this is surely peak sci-fi (Children of Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social)

Hiring ... you? We are inviting applications from individuals familiar with the field of Jewish Historical Studies and/or Jewish communal life in the UK to join us as a network coordinator. @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies @biajs.bsky.social

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu

This is absolutely fantastic!! So glad to see @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social go from strength to strength!

The organisers of the UKDHHH outdid themselves today - what a brilliant day of talks, and a masterclass in accessibility

-- medical historians -- have you come across any instances of patients attempting to intervene in their own medical care out of desperation or irritation? either surgically or therapeutically. please share!

I'm currently with Dr Wade Berger trying to get a group of disabled museum educators to the ASTC conference. Both of us are currently jobless due to higher education cuts, but feel it's important to keep advancing this research anyways. Thank you very much for any and all help! gofund.me/54f249fc

With our grant support, British Deaf History Society has showcased rare artefacts & stories marking 100 years of the Deaflympics preserving history & inspiring the next generation ahead of Taiwan 2025. Sign up for future funding: tinyurl.com/2fyjnytk

⭐️ We're 10 years old - what a journey so far! ⭐️ Here's a message from our CEO Vicky, to all of you who've been with us along the way! Over the next 10 days we'll be sharing some of our favourite moments, and we'd love for you to share yours too! Get involved at #NPHT10Years #MuseumEd ♿

NEW EVENT!! 📣We are super excited to launch our first Disability Matters online town hall circus 2025! Please join us on 19th Sep for conversations on how disability can drive innovative change and expand equity, diversity and inclusion in health research: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Looking forward to presenting my research on breast cancer and breastfeeding at this event in September!

#skyhistorians We are looking forward to our Divergent Minds in the Archive workshops in Cardiff (29 July) & Liverpool (14 Aug). There’s still time to sign up & we are looking for a broad group of archive users! We have travel bursaries & can if needed help with hotel accommodation. More details👇

@sambrady.bsky.social congrats on your @socialhistsoc.bsky.social prize. It’s wonderful to see your Paralympic exhibition recognised. I hope you sensed the loud round of applause from the auditorium!

Big shout-out to one of my faves @sambrady.bsky.social for winning the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social public history prize! 🥳🥳 #SHSConf2025

News | River & Rowing Museum confirms ‘extremely difficult’ decision to close – venue's net losses have averaged £1m a year due to high cost of running building

Free Star Trek & Disability zines. Part 1 : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0... Part 2 : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0... Find more here : linktr.ee/disabilityark

Posting to announce: 1. My visa for my postdoc in Swansea has officially been approved! 2. Alice Equestri’s Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, to which I contributed a chapter, is out now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

🚨 Last call for submitting details about your publications to be included in the NGG report for the @biajs.bsky.social Bulletin! 🚨

Had a great day running tech for the @ukdishisthub.bsky.social 2025 Connecting and Sharing event today. I feel very lucky to be able to learn about so many great projects, research and people working in this field - the Hub is a small part of a rich landscape of exciting work. 1/4

Missed today’s event? Check out the thread below! Lots of excellent presentations and amazing people to network with!