Lou Bell

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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.

Speaking of our monthly events, we would love to hear from you about how to shape them going forward! Do you have an idea for a topic that you would like to see discussed? Can you recommend speakers or projects? Or do you want to present yourself? Please do get in touch! #DisHist

After a little bit of a break, our monthly events are back! Join us on 25th February at 5pm (UK time) where Emma Koprena from Transport For All will be with us to talk about their archive and showcase some objects from it! #DisHist

Just spent a wonderful couple of hours with one of my participants, hearing about her life in West Brom in the 1960s. I am still recruiting, so if you or anyone you know fits the bill and is interested, please get in touch #1960s #womenshistory #workingclasshistory #twentiethcenturyhistory

Having carefully set up an out of office and forward for my Leeds email account, it looks as if the University has simply shut it down. Can friends and followers please get the word out that I am still contactable for history-related messages and queries at jessicameyer1 @ gmail.com. Thank you!

Wonderful papers by Margarida Portelo @louisebell.bsky.social and @cormac-keenan.bsky.social in our first panel #milwelfhist

Really enjoyed getting to present at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social virtual symposium this morning, looking at some of the more “fun” aspects of my PhD thesis (we all know I love getting to talk about the artificial limbs themselves!) #DisHist #ww1 #ww2

I’m desperate to go and see it!

Black T-shirt with yellow text at the top saying Independent Venue Week 2026. In smaller text below, in white, are names of venues all across the UK.

Standing at the back of a room looking at the stage where a person with pink hair is performing. The real focus is a tv screen hanging from the ceiling which has the white Independent Venue Week logo against a black background displayed on it.

Did some volunteering for #IVW26 last night! If you know me at all, then you know music and going to gigs is a huge part of my life, so it was nice to get to play a small part in celebrating independent venues.

I think this might have been the first time I’ve ever attended something at Celtic Connections?! But I really enjoyed getting to spend 1+ hours listening to some wonderful music at the Danny Kyle Open Stage yesterday! #CCFest26

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was definitely worth taking a break to go see!

Genuinely have so many things that I need to get done before the end of the weekend, so of course I’m dealing with the stress by just going to the cinema…

I’m looking forward to presenting at this on Monday! #DisHist #ww1 #ww2

Pls share - a must for anyone interested in interdisciplinary working & material methods in the medical humanities! A truly innovative project by glass artist Matt Durran and the Royal Free Hospital. Weds 4th Feb (1-2pm, online, free).

Register at shorturl.at/GpkG6

Full series: shorturl.at/T6WDE

Congratulations!! 🥳

Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935 Until reading this blog, many of you have probably never heard of the Bradford Reform Jewish community. They are Britain’s third oldest Reform Jewish community and are still active today. Bra…

📣New blog!

Sophia Lambert (@sophialambert100.bsky.social) on 'Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935'

#History #Memorial #Migration #Bradford 19thc 20thc 🗃️

👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Small Grants The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support our members to carry out research activities and hold events. We give priority to activities and event that would otherwise remai…

📣Apply for Small Grants Funding!

Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment?

⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March

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You now have a whole extra week to get abstracts in!

The conference will also be my last hurrah as PGR rep, so it would be lovely to see loads of people there!

If, like me, you haven’t submitted your abstract for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference then you NEED to get it done tomorrow! Always one of my favourite conferences and always full of the nicest, most supportive people!

I wasn’t quite expecting this on my afternoon walk… 😍❄️

Just sent off my first job application of 2026… Which is arguably a bleak thing to be doing on a Saturday night 💀

SHS Annual Conference 2026 Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…

📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary!

👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

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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

RGT tour voucher - winter fundraiser Support our winter fundraiser, raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Glasgow City Mission. Perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for comrades! Each...

Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...

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

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

Reading some academic articles for probably the first time since I submitted my thesis corrections and, I won’t lie, it’s a bit of a struggle to get my mind back into this way of working/thinking…

A reminder that this is happening THIS Wednesday! #DisHist