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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · 7d

Sometimes with work events it’s just about the view! 🤩🤩🤩

@paraheritage.bsky.social @thecrownestate.bsky.social

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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · 19d

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!

UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 27d

🚨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

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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · 20d

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

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The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social · 21d

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...

A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center

A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

katz.sas.upenn.edu

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely meeting you today!

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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social · 27d

🚨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

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Assistant Professor, Disability Studies

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...

www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Aug 17

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 💙📚 🧪 🗃

Thomas Spiteri @tespiteri.bsky.social · Jul 24

New episode of The HPS Podcast! 🎙️

Today, Dr Surekha Davies joins us to discuss her new book Humans: A Monstrous History – a sweeping look at how ideas of monstrosity shaped science, empire, and what it means to be human.

@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social #hps #history #monsters

🎧 Listen here:

S5 E2 - Surekha Davies on Humans: A Monstrous History

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups @intsl-nd-dis-rgs.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

CALL FOR TEXTS: Reading Group 2026: Cripping Methodology

Hello, I hadn't start planning the reading group for 2026. However, I had already been wondering whether it would be a good idea to organise the 2026 Reading Group on methodology. Others today in the...

docs.google.com

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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

Picture of a conference or event room, with a projector screen in the centre of the picture. The screen content reads Divergent Minds in the Archive Workshop. There are tables and chairs in the foreground. On the tables are available variety of pens.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

employment.ku.dk

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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · Aug 9

Really honoured to be part of such a diverse and impactful collection with other amazing authors!

There’s a discount code for the book from the publisher’s website (www.press.uillinois.edu) - use F25UIP to get 30% from now until June 30, 2027.

#QualitativeResearch #Museums #Archives #ECR #History

www.press.uillinois.edu

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Dr Samuel Goldstone-Brady @sambrady.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

Photograph of a book, being held up for a picture. The big is titled: Cripping the Archive. Disability, History and Power. The image on the book showcases a waterfall.

This image shows the inside of the book - open on the start of Chapter 14. This is titled The Spoken Word Is Not Neutral: Oral History, Disability, and Nonverbal Communication. By OSNAT KATZ AND SAMUEL GOLDSTONE-BRADY

This is an image of Sam holding the book up for a selfie. The background of the image is a bookcase filled with different colourful books. Sam is a white presenting man in his late 20s, with black head hair, facial hair and glasses. He is wearing a brown T-shirt. He is smiling widely and holding the book up.

A purple image with the Cripping the Archive book to the right. The text on the image reads: Cutting-edge methods for unearthing disability history
Get 30% OFF using promo code
F25UIP at www.press.uillinois.edu
(Offer good until June 30, 2027)

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Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social · Aug 7

MER is hiring! We're seeking an Operations Manager to begin work with us in September. Applications are due 11:59pm ET on Friday, August 22, 2025, for this remote, part-time position.

Learn more and apply at www.museumedu.org/about/jobs/.

Details ⬇️

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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Cripping the Archive
Disability, History, and Power
Author: Edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy

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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · Aug 5

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/...

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025

www.history.ac.uk

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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

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