Relatively new member and got to hear the voices of all our past presidents for the first time yesterday! As a blind and #DisHist enthusiast, I was all like “whooooooa” 🤩 ! #NFB23

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era published my article, "Sound Citizenship: Hearing and Speech Disabilities in World War I." I am very grateful for the attention and care that the journal gave throughout this process. #dishist

started a #wikipedia article on US social worker & American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) executive Lotta S. Ward (1868-1956): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_S._Rand #RedCross #dishist #Harvard #Halifax She went to France in #WWI, traveling in the US raising funds; she compiled a directory of agencies in 1926, & was Helen Keller's advance planner for appearances in the 1930s.

started a #wikipedia article on US medical records librarian Thelma Van Norte (1912-1985): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Van_Norte #dishist #Indianapolis #Macon #EmoryUniversity #BritishGuiana #medicalrecords #medicaltranscription #Employment

started a #wikipedia article on US home economist, #UConn dean, Elizabeth Eckhardt May (1899-1996): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eckhardt_May #HoodCollege #ColumbiaAlumni #dishist #rehabilitation #homeec

started a #wikipedia article on Society of Saint Margaret sister, #specialed educator in #Haiti, Elizabeth Simpson Burke, aka Sister Joan Margaret (1906-2005): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Simpson_Burke #newburyport #dishist #Episcopal

started a #wikipedia article on Floy Schoenfelder (1919-2000), co-founder of Polio Survivors Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floy_Schoenfelder #polio #dishist #RanchoLosAmigos #postpolio

RT @JLDraycott
Are you a medical/disability historian working on ancient warfare, or an ancient military historian working on disability? If so, please get in touch with me, I'd love to chat about your research! ECRs and independent academics welcome and encouraged. #DisHist #MedHist

Late Victorian #blind students at the Royal Normal College experiment with seriously fun-looking 12 person #bicycle

#DisHist #disability

RT @NinonDubourg@twitter.com

CFP - Histories of Disability and Emotions

An International Online Conference Hosted by @KU_Leuven@twitter.com and @UniversiteLiege@twitter.com, Belgium, 13-15 June 2023.

Org. by @SaraScalenghe@twitter.com, Pieter Verstraete and @NinonDubourg@twitter.com (me!)

More info and #dishist cfp on: https://dishist.hypotheses.org/2770

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NinonDubourg/status/1605521758064234498

CFP - Histories of Disability and Emotions

An International Online Conference Hosted by KU Leuven and Universite de Liege, Belgium, 13-15 June 2023.

Org. by Sara Scalenghe, Pieter Verstraete and Ninon Dubourg (me!)

More info and #dishist cfp on: https://dishist.hypotheses.org/2770

@histodons @disability

RT @JLDraycott@twitter.com

Hot off the presses from @CambridgeUP@twitter.com! Prosthetics & Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece & Rome, the output of my LKAS postdoctoral fellowship @UofGlasgow@twitter.com @UofGHumanities@twitter.com @UofGClassics@twitter.com #DisHist #MedHist

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JLDraycott/status/1605241372906332162

New #book - Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond, Edited by Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlık, pub. by Boydell & Brewer

More info & #dishist books on: https://dishist.hypotheses.org/2708

And there will be a book launch on January 13, 2023!

Registration is very easy and free ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpce2oqTopH9Z79qTfPiOOc5bn5Zqh16ns

@histodons @disabilityhistory

#CFP: Voices Heard and Unheard: Authority, Truth, and Silence in Historical Perspective at Central European University

Abstract to be sent before January 17, 2023

More #dishist info and CFP: https://dishist.hypotheses.org/2701 @histodons

RT @Nicole_Lee_Sch@twitter.com

I missed like 3 years of networking bc conference are widely insaccessible and aren't taking COVID precautions. So please catch me up! Who's working on #DisHist that I should know about? Grad students? Non-tt folk? Who's voices am I missing out on? #AcademicChatter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Nicole_Lee_Sch/status/1602033738510123009

RT @MRCWarwick@twitter.com

Reports of the Associated Carpenters & Joiners Society of Scotland, 1872-6, 1880-5, now added to our digitised journals @ https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/unionjournals/ascjs/

Great sources for industrial health, #histmed & #dishist - with detailed info re #Victorian workers affected by illness or disability

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MRCWarwick/status/1599794876761067520

#Antiquity #dishist is already much easier to make, as, in addition to human remains, we also have texts & inscriptions, iconography, status, objects, etc. ~nd

Many historians worked studied it since the 95', you can have a little bibliography here: http://www.menestrel.fr/?-Handicap-&lang=fr

Those studies are mainly focusing on significant cases, such as for prehistoric times, showing disabled people's agency, but historians begin to draw more general features from them.

RT @MRCWarwick@twitter.com

Interested in disabled workers & #dishist between 1914-1928? We've got a massive new data drop for you this #DisabilityHistoryMonth!

Over 4,000 references to applications for permits of exemption for 'disabled' workers indexed & online at https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/tradeboard/disability/ 🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MRCWarwick/status/1593550865666801665

Hi Mastodon Folks!

I have created a #DisHist group (#Disability #History, #DisabilityHistory) if you want to follow/join so that our little community gathers again!

See you soon at @disabilityhistory

#histodons #archeodons #Ancient #Medieval #Health #histmed #medhist #Premodern

Hi Mastodon!

Here is my #Introduction!

I am a #postdoctoral fellow from the FNRS in #Belgium, at ULiège (UR "Transitions"), on #religious #experiences of #disabled people!

So, an "expert" on #MiddleAges #Disability, #OldAge, and #Gender mostly!

My first book will be out on January 23! Its title: "Disabled clerics in the Late Middle Ages, Un/suitable for divine services?"

I am both proud and frightened, but for now, I have to finish the #Index, so, see you soon here!

#histodons #dishist