David Turner

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

It might be beyond the scope of the book, but thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much I look forward to reading!

I didn't know about that. Yes, I'd love to learn more

Thanks! I write a bit about how disabled people in the past responded to tech and innovated their own. Mental health is there in the book but it's not something I look at in great detail. It's a big time period I'm covering so inevitably there are some gaps, but also lots that's new hopefully!

Thank you!

Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century British History in the Long 18th Century Semianr

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/...

Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times. Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman: We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves

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.

Screen with text for RHS blog post: ‘Piloting the responsible and effective use of generative AI in undergraduate History Teaching’.

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...

69,000 railway company records released! - Railway Work, Life & Death An introduction to our new data release - railway staff accident records produced by English & Welsh railway companies, 1855-1929.

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! 👇

Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

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...

Draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan | GOV.WALES We want your views on the draft Disabled People’s Rights Plan.

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...

This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week. I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I…

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

Line drawn image showing around 250 railwaymen, with a caption 'One hundred times as many railway men as are here shown were injured - 471 of them fatally - through accidents on the railways in the United Kingdom last year' for 1915.

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Swansea University Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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...

A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’ Laura Sangha This post introduces our new mini-series Visual Culture in early modern England. Guest posts in the mini-series will be published over the course of the next month – we will add links …

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...

The history of ‘indecent advertisements’ in public toilets - The National Archives blog PhD student Jessica Gregory examines illicit advertising in the early 20th century.

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-...

Thanks for sharing, I'm learning a lot from this series!

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!

View of Pembroke College Oxford showing the Chapel and green grass of a quadrangle.

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?

BBC Sounds - Access All: Disability News and Mental Health, New kids’ toys launched to help people with hidden disabilities Toy figures wearing lanyards could help children understand hidden disabilities

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...

The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex

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