Dr. Alexandra F. Morris

We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for our event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the 27th November! You can book to attend in-person (limited space) or virtually and all information can be found on the Eventbrite: #DisHist www.eventbrite.com/e/collection...

قد تهمّ هذه الفرصة الزميلات والزملاء من مصر أو من مختلف الدول العربية. يُرجى الاطلاع على الرابط للاطّلاع على تفاصيل الدعوة باللغة العربية. May be of interest to any Egyptian or Arab colleagues. Please see :the link for the call in Arabic:

Happy to have been invited to give the inaugural lecture for The Classical Association in Northern Ireland 2026-2027 this Wednesday October 7 at 6:30 PM. Come if you wish to hear more about ancient disability and Alexander the Great:

Coming up tomorrow! @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social joins us this Disability Pride Month to chat about disability in the world of ancient Egypt!

We were really pleased to get to lead this session at #SSHM2026 this afternoon! Our audience was very engaged and we had some very insightful conversations! Big thanks to Rosie Cresswell and @sshmedicine.bsky.social for all of the support we have received over the past few years and today!

Had a lovely, albeit very brief, time at #SSHM2026 this afternoon! It was great to be able to talk about the work we’ve been doing with @ukdishisthub.bsky.social with @sambrady.bsky.social, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social and Rosemary Cresswell! #DisHist

Disability history folks, please check out this call for abstracts and spread it to your networks! Caroline Lieffers and I are seeking contributors for a volume we're co-editing on disability and the life course 🗃️ #dishist #history networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

You can also find an easy read version of the Call for Presenters below: #DisHist #CFP

On that note, if anyone has any suggestions or leads for small pots of money that we can apply to to make this event as accessible as possible, please do get in touch - either on here or via our email address! Any help would be much appreciated! #DisHist

CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist

We’re at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Festival of Social History today! If you’re here, please do come say hi!

Some of the @ukdishisthub.bsky.social team are attending, and presenting at, the Access In Museums Conference at Leeds City Museum today!

In addition to this, excited to be running a workshop on disability and employment as the Disability in Museums research group with Code Beschler, @karlantmercer.bsky.social, @sambrady.bsky.social, Emma Cieslik, and Wade Berger. #AccessinMuseums2026 #DisabilityHistory #Museums

Excited to be back in Leeds, and in the lovely Broderick Hall at Leeds City Museum, for the Access In Museums conference! This afternoon myself, @sambrady.bsky.social and @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social will be presenting on @ukdishisthub.bsky.social and who we are/what we do.

@cripantiquity.bsky.social is at the #CA2026 in Manchester. Thanks to everyone who came to our panel yesterday. Discussions highlighted people doing amazing work, and ideas for future resources and improvements to our sector. We're here as a resource and look forward to continuing the conversation!

Sharing an important article that has come out of the University of Cambridge. Too many people I know in academia have been subject to various forms of abuse, and this is unfortunately one of the latest examples of this. Change is needed: archive.ph/l7JIX

Exicited to co-convene the session "The History of Museum Access," tomorrow at this year's @forarthistory.org.uk #AAH2026, and co-facilitating the workshop "Getting Beyond Homer: Disability, Classics, and the Classroom" as @cripantiquity.bsky.social at this year's CA Conference on Saturday. #CA2026

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

A reminder that this is happening THIS WEDNESDAY! #DisHist

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! 🏺

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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)

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

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!

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...

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

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

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

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

Join us on Wednesday for a day filled with #DisHist!

Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people! Weds 25 June 10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online #skystorians

Another reminder for Wednesday’s event!! A fabulous day of presentations all about disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf histories. Please share! #Blueskystorians #History #disability #DisHist #museums #GLAM

The JME/MER Author Panel is tomorrow! Reserve your tickets now for this online-only event, taking place this Thursday, June 19, at 7pm EDT. www.eventbrite.com/e/jmemer-aut... Today, we're featuring one of our panelists: Journal of Museum Education co-editor, Michelle Moon.