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Dr. Alexandra F. Morris

@disabledarchaeo.bsky.social

Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair @cripantiquity.bsky.social‬. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.

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Pink textured background with yellow electrical tape and text reading “Explore our history” and 'Visit the Accessible Transport Archive' in bold black letters. Photo is from a historic campaign poster. It is taken looking down on a crowd of protestors. Three people at the front are holding up a large banner that reads "Transport for all - accessible transport, no excuses"

Pink textured background with yellow electrical tape and text reading “Explore our history” and 'Visit the Accessible Transport Archive' in bold black letters. Photo is from a historic campaign poster. It is taken looking down on a crowd of protestors. Three people at the front are holding up a large banner that reads "Transport for all - accessible transport, no excuses"

Thank you UK Disability History and Heritage Hub for hosting us last night. It was great to share some of the stories behind disabled people’s campaigns for transport access. We’re really proud to be part of the community preserving and celebrating them.

Explore our history: https://bit.ly/4h8NHOe

26.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A reminder that this is happening THIS WEDNESDAY! #DisHist

23.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks again for thinking of me for this!

06.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did Cleopatra Really Die by Suicide Using an Asp (Snake)? Cleopatra VII’s death is one of the most famous scenes in ancient history, usually imagined as a dramatic suicide by asp (snake) bite. But when we examine the ancient evidence closely, the snake begin...

New article out from a new contributor. So glad to have @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social writing for Bad Ancient!

Ever wondered what the evidence says about Cleopatra's death? 👇

06.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks again for having us! It was a lovely time and I'm very glad to have been able to meet Danny.

18.12.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I host this podcast ‘Talking Disability’ on behalf of The Classical Pod and the first episode has just dropped. We need to talk about disability and ableism much more so please go and listen to brilliant guests Alexandra Morris and Danny Pucknell do exactly that! 🏺

15.12.2025 11:46 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
Front cover of the History UK 'Disability and History Project Report' 2025. Full text: "Disability and History Project Report. Lead author: Dr Sarah Holland. Project Research Fellows: Dr Alexandra F. Morris, Dr Sarah E. Hayward, and Tilly Guthrie. Supported by an Advisory Board. Co-funded by the Royal Historical Society." With History UK and Royal Historical Society logos

Front cover of the History UK 'Disability and History Project Report' 2025. Full text: "Disability and History Project Report. Lead author: Dr Sarah Holland. Project Research Fellows: Dr Alexandra F. Morris, Dr Sarah E. Hayward, and Tilly Guthrie. Supported by an Advisory Board. Co-funded by the Royal Historical Society." With History UK and Royal Historical Society logos

History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z

The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians

08.12.2025 13:34 — 👍 36    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 3

👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️

11.12.2025 13:10 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Black text on a white background, reading:

UKDHHH NEEDS YOU!
Do you want to present at our monthly events? or
Do you have suggestions for people/things you would like to see at them?
Get in touch on social media.
Or email: UKDisHistHeritageHub@gmail.com

The UK Disability History and Heritage Hub logo is in the bottom left. This is made up of a red rectangular speech bubble, a blue speech bubble and an orange thought bubble, with our name in black letters on a green background in the centre of the three.

Black text on a white background, reading: UKDHHH NEEDS YOU! Do you want to present at our monthly events? or Do you have suggestions for people/things you would like to see at them? Get in touch on social media. Or email: UKDisHistHeritageHub@gmail.com The UK Disability History and Heritage Hub logo is in the bottom left. This is made up of a red rectangular speech bubble, a blue speech bubble and an orange thought bubble, with our name in black letters on a green background in the centre of the three.

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

04.12.2025 14:33 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Still time to register for this free online event next week! With fantastic contributions from @nlisn.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @neurodiversemuseum.bsky.social @owenbarden.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social @sambrady.bsky.social and many more!

11.11.2025 12:25 — 👍 9    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

For our November monthly event, Jemma Lakmaker will be joining us on 19th November at 5pm to discuss deaf ex-servicemen in post-WW1 Britain. #DisHist #ww1

13.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Excellent first week of my new exhibition. Had some great conversations with visitors.

Had a lengthy chat today about the layers and layers of accessibility we had to build in - including making our VR piece accessible to vision impaired users.

It's groundbreaking work that deserves attention.

25.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Part of the "At the End of History" exhibition. Pictured are a Victorian Artist's box with a label describing it as well as information about the illustrator Anne Pratt. Behind it is wall text/graphics with the word "Nothing" in purple graffiti overlying this.

Part of the "At the End of History" exhibition. Pictured are a Victorian Artist's box with a label describing it as well as information about the illustrator Anne Pratt. Behind it is wall text/graphics with the word "Nothing" in purple graffiti overlying this.

The co-produced collage "About Us" from the exhibition "At the End of History." It features work by disabled people associated with this exhibition and has tactile and audio elements/was made to be touched and explored via touch and audio as well as via sight.

The co-produced collage "About Us" from the exhibition "At the End of History." It features work by disabled people associated with this exhibition and has tactile and audio elements/was made to be touched and explored via touch and audio as well as via sight.

Last week, I went to go visit @karlantmercer.bsky.social 's "At the End of History," at @dovermuseum.bsky.social and had a fantastic day out. The VR portion of the exhibit is like nothing I've ever experienced before. Highly urge everyone to see this exhibit before it closes. #DisHist

03.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Free Shakespeare & Disability Zine:
https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-10/Shakespeare%20and%20Disability.pdf
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Free Shakespeare & Disability Zine: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-10/Shakespeare%20and%20Disability.pdf Subscribe or find more free here : https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

Free Shakespeare & Disability Zine:
files.libcom.org/files/2025-1...
Subscribe or find more free here : linktr.ee/disabilityark

28.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

We’re excited to announce that we will be joined by @annasusanf.bsky.social for our October monthly event! Join us at 5pm on the 29th October for a discussion on “Disability History Potentials in the Andes: Archives, Archaeology and Indigenous Knowledge” #DisHist

13.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
Dr. Alexandra Morris: Egyptologist & Disability Activist
YouTube video by Gabriel Garcia-The Wandering Scribe Dr. Alexandra Morris: Egyptologist & Disability Activist

Thank you very much @authorgabegarcia.bsky.social for my appearance on the Wandering Scribe podcast. It was lovely interview, and is out along with other Wandering Scribe podcasts now at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1VC...

10.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Posting again for visibility. Thank you again to everyone who's donated, shared, or otherwise supported us so far.

13.08.2025 11:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

07.08.2025 22:09 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you to everyone who's donated, shared, or otherwise supported us so far. We've now raised enough to send 2 speakers to ASTC. Please do keep sharing. Your support through donations or just spreading the word makes this possible. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-trave...

02.08.2025 22:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
Disabled Leaders part two

Disabled Leaders part two

Disabled Leaders Part Two:
Free here : files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...

02.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Donate to CripAntiquity Help support CripAntiquity by donating or sharing with your friends.

We love these events, but we could use your help to continue to do them.

Please, as Disability Pride Month comes to an end, consider donating to our cause! (2/2)

www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

29.07.2025 18:52 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Three CripAntiquity board members in front of a lecture hall posing with the CripAntiquity contact information.

Three CripAntiquity board members in front of a lecture hall posing with the CripAntiquity contact information.

It has been a big month for CripAntiquity!

Early in the month, three of our board members hosted a panel at the CA conference (pictured below), and just this last weekend we had our first ever annual conference, which was a great success! (1/2)

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Donate to Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders, organized by Wade Berger We’re raising funds to send a cohort of disabled museum educators to the … Wade Berger needs your support for Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders

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

16.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Excited to be presenting at the #CA2025 as part of CripAntiquity on Saturday morning. @cripantiquity.bsky.social
is also now on Bluesky! Give us a follow!

11.07.2025 22:39 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to CripAntiquity Help support CripAntiquity by donating or sharing with your friends.

July is Disability Pride Month, and we are so proud of our members around the world! We are now one step closer to reaching our goal of providing grants/scholarships for our members for conferences and fieldwork: you can now donate to us! paypal.com/donate/?host...

09.07.2025 19:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Donate to Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders, organized by Wade Berger We’re raising funds to send a cohort of disabled museum educators to the … Wade Berger needs your support for Fund Travel for Disabled Museum Workshop Leaders

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

09.07.2025 22:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot for the Social History Society’s Community Exchange blog, which says:

Our Community Exchange aims to foster links across history-making spaces-from museums and archives, streets and groups, stage and screen - and to open up dialogue between the many different audiences for social history. We welcome contributions showcasing public history events, as well as think pieces on community history, co-production, or how scholarship can be transformed by conversations beyond the academy.

Screenshot for the Social History Society’s Community Exchange blog, which says: Our Community Exchange aims to foster links across history-making spaces-from museums and archives, streets and groups, stage and screen - and to open up dialogue between the many different audiences for social history. We welcome contributions showcasing public history events, as well as think pieces on community history, co-production, or how scholarship can be transformed by conversations beyond the academy.

Have you done some fun work with museums/archives/cultural spaces (anything beyond the academy, essentially) and want to tell people about it? Please do consider writing something for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Community Exchange blog! #SHSConf2025

08.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 23    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 0
Star Trek and disability the next degeneration

Star Trek and disability the next degeneration

New free Zine out, Star Trek and Disability, Part 2 - The Next Degeneration. Direct link here: files.libcom.org/files/2025-0...
Find Part 1, our other zines, or subscribe here: linktr.ee/disabilityark

05.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3
July is Disability Pride Month

Mourns Disabled People Who Have
Died From
Negligence, Suicide, Illness & Eugenics

Sensory Disabilities

Psychiatric Disabilities

Non-visible & Undiagnosed Disabilities

Cognitive & Intellectual Disabilities

Physical Disabilities

July is Disability Pride Month Mourns Disabled People Who Have Died From Negligence, Suicide, Illness & Eugenics Sensory Disabilities Psychiatric Disabilities Non-visible & Undiagnosed Disabilities Cognitive & Intellectual Disabilities Physical Disabilities

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UKDHHH 2025 Connecting + Sharing Event Join us at the UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing event to hear more about those working with, or interested in, disability histories.

Today is the day! Our 2025 Connecting + Sharing event is now underway and we are all looking forward to learning from 15 wide-ranging presentations! If you want to see the schedule (and maybe join in a little later), everything is on our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/e/ukdhhh-202... #DisHist

25.06.2025 09:40 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1