19thC Disability @19cDisability
Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts. Victorian history. #dishist. Tweets by @jaivirdi & @kbourrier (RTs & Follows are not endorsement) nineteenthcenturydisability.org Joined March 2014-
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The Portrait of a Sixteenth-Century Disabled Man: public-disabilityhistory.org/2016/04/the-po… #dishist
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The novel "Silent Handicap" (1927) follows lives of 3 Deaf children: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2… via @HearingLibrary
Reexamining Joseph Merrick aka "The Elephant Man": publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/24/ree… via @PublicDomainRev #dishist #histSTM
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror." 📖Charles Baudelaire. 📷 Budelaire Daguerreotype, 1850.
Steel Wheels! A man in a wheelchair with steel wheels, c.1900 #dishist
Engraving of Samuel Horsey, a 55yo labourer who lost both legs (1803) #dishist
On the talking glove Alexander Graham Bell used to teach deaf George Sanders in the 1840s: nineteenthcenturydisability.org/items/show/61
How printed tactile (relief) maps were used to teach the sighted & blind geography by @lmt99 nineteenthcenturydisability.org/items/show/62
Long before Captain Hook, there was Major Little and his artificial arm (c.1851).
Pair of artificial legs, used by a child affected by the drug thalidomide via @sciencemuseum #dishist #histstm
Great photos on artificial limbs from 1900s: mashable.com/2015/07/26/ear… #dishist #histstm #twitterstorians
Healing Spas & Ugly Clubs: @KBourrier & @JaiVirdi on disability in victorian times goo.gl/cCn3wQ #dishist
Conjoined piglets and two-faced kittens: Victorian oddities – in pictures gu.com/p/4ag67/stw #dishist
A man in a wheelchair with steel wheels, c.1900 #histstm #dishist #histmed #steelwheels
Patients at the New York State Craig Colony for Epileptics paring vegetables, 1898 #dishist #twitterstorians
Pupils at the Perkins Institution for the Blind learning about animals by touching stuffed versions, 1893 #dishist
Illustration of young Helen Keller at a typewriter, 1892 #dishist #blindness #histstm
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Centre for Victorian ... @CentreVictorian
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Lizzie Martin @lizzieajmartin
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CeciliaRose @CeciliaRoseNS
472 Followers 953 Following PhD candidate at Exeter University looking at mermaids and sirens as androgynous figures in Victorian art and poetry. Also an artist specialising in animals!
Old Victorian News @victorian_old
7 Followers 22 Following Posting snippets of Victorian news, to shed a light on the past and just for fun!
John R. Kelso @JohnRKelso
196 Followers 905 Following Teacher, Preacher, Solider, Spy; Congressman, Lecturer, Author; Atheist, Spiritualist, Anarchist. A remarkable 19th c. life. https://t.co/qhcA7NutMg https://t.co/6lAUM2VioT
Dr Lucy Ella Rose @lucyella13
2K Followers 2K Following Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Surrey University #mother #victorianist #feminist #oenophile #marywattssuperfan #subtextsminer
Living Assessments @living_assess
823 Followers 1K Following @WellcomeTrust Collaborative Award (2020-25) researching the impact of UK health & social care assessments on children & families RT/like not endorsement
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Jess Roberts @spangledpirate
639 Followers 1K Following NHS Theatre Excellence programme manager. Funeral celebrant. PhD in nineteenth-century medicine. Big reader.
Isabelle Lawrence @izz_law
307 Followers 499 Following PhD student investigating the representation of disability history in museums (she/her)
Nineteenth Circle @19th_circle
1K Followers 3K Following Multimedia performances of 19th century work. Committed to diversifying the voice. Music. Poetry. Theatre. Since 2020.
Marion Andrea Schmidt @MarionAndreaSc1
212 Followers 424 Following Historian of medicine, disability and deafness @uniGoettingen. Record speed reader. She / her.
Dr Eleoma Bodammer, S... @BodammerEleoma
552 Followers 714 Following Reader in 18th & 19th-Century German Studies @ the University of Edinburgh. Leverhulme Research Fellow.
Dr Felicity McGeown @mckee_felicity
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Prof Sara Lodge @LearNonsense
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daisy holder ♿ @daisyholder
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Dr Pip Gregory @FWWcartoonPip
669 Followers 2K Following Cartoon humour, history & memory. Avid gardener. Working with a smile, a CFcough & MSstumble (tweets own views & interests) @CFResNetwork #cccuclimatedragon
Aleksei Moniz Mirov �... @aleks_mirov
167 Followers 691 Following He/they. 🇺🇦 Historian, cat dad, Jewish. PhD student @myunionedu. Religion, death, saints, yellow fever, immigrants, 19th c New Orleans. ⚜️ Views mine.
MC @crutchingreader
299 Followers 617 Following Parent with CP. Cranky. Book nerd. Historian/former academic. She/her.
TouchThisPage @PageTouch
66 Followers 123 Following Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read is an exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Experience it online or in Boston
Asylum Libraries @AsylumLibraries
345 Followers 190 Following A PhD project at @QMHistory examining how reading & writing were used in 19th-century British asylums, funded by the @wellcometrust. (Tweets by @lauragrayblair)
Mildly Irritated Crip... @IrritatedCrip
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Void @M8Void
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700 Followers 605 Following Victorian Poetry Caucus is a scholarly network at NAVSA of those whose research and teaching interests include poetry & poetics of the long nineteenth-century.
John Lee Clark @johnleeclark
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Vammaisuuden vaiettu ... @DisHistFi
124 Followers 82 Following Koneen Säätiön rahoittama vammaishistorian saavutettavuuteen tähtäävä hanke. // Finnish public disability history project. #rohkeatekijä @UniTampere
Victorian Fears @VictorianFears
277 Followers 314 Following Victorian Fears Colloquium, Monday 18th June 2018 at Newman University. Co-organised by @SophieAllen_ @chadwick_zoe & Ian Cawood. Contact: [email protected]
Zoe Chadwick @chadwick_zoe
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Victorian CFPs @VictorianCFPs
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Patrick Leary @PatrickLearyVIC
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Dr Sara Read @saralread
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Dr Ian McCormick @PostFilm
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Kristen @heyitskaystarr
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Peter Jones @PTAJones
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Dr Georgia Burdett @GeorgiaBurdett
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Dr. Brandy Schillace @bschillace
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Piers Gooding @P_Gooding
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Verity Burke @DrVerityBurke
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James Stark @KingTekkers
2K Followers 2K Following This account is no longer active | Professor of Medical Humanities | history of medicine + science, especially: advertising, germs, food, tech.
Ian Hesketh @IanHesketh
1K Followers 1K Following Associate Professor @UQ_History. Author of Victorian Jesus and Editor of Imagining the Darwinian Revolution.
Ryan Ross @Ryan_RR_Ross
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Alison Hedley @HedleyAlison
662 Followers 589 Following Freelance editor and research nerd. Author of Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918 (UTP, 2021). She/her.
Dr Claire O'Callaghan... @drclaireocall
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Jess Cox @JessJCox
2K Followers 2K Following Academic working on maternal histories. Mother. (Neo) Victorianist. Book Lover. Feminist. Welshie living in the North East. Represented by @PFDAgents
Kristin Mahoney @KristinMMahoney
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The Lady Dr Smith �... @paletteandgun
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Dr Holly Kelsall @holly_kelsall
681 Followers 862 Following Film studies, Charles Dickens and representation. PhD @keeleuniversity. English tutor. Wife. Mother. Parish councillor/ former school governor.
Rachel Vorona Cote @RVoronaCote
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Claire Furlong @ClaireRFurlong
446 Followers 322 Following Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter and Bath Spa University. Research on Victorian periodicals, popular culture, science and medicine.
Beth Seltzer @beth_seltzer
755 Followers 585 Following Academic Tech Specialist at Stanford, English PhD. Digital stuff, career training, enjoys solving problems and/or mysteries.
Susan Woodall @susan_woodall
226 Followers 264 Following History PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching material culture of nineteenth-century reform institutions for 'fallen' women.
Jennifer Jones @JenniferDiann
290 Followers 287 Following Lecturer in English literature; writes on Victorian culture, novels, and music.
Dr Sally Holloway @sally_holloway
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Jonathan Buckmaster @JJBuckmaster
314 Followers 382 Following Doctor of Dickens and clowns, with Neo-Victorian leanings. Stevenage FC fan. Technical writer by day, technically still a writer by night.
Penelope J. Corfield @PennyCorfield
2K Followers 1K Following Penny Corfield is a historian of History and Time; and in July 2019 she was elected as President of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Jane Hamlett @JaneHamlett
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Dr Stef Eastoe (she/h... @StefEastoe
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Dr Janine Hatter @Janine_Hatter
1K Followers 850 Following Lecturer at @PGRHub. Researches 19thC popular fiction & culture, esp M E Braddon. Co-organiser of @Braddoninfo & @VPFA1. Devout tea lover.
Will Abberley @WillAbberley
674 Followers 415 Following Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Sussex. Interested in the history of science, especially biology. BBC New Generation Thinker.
Theresa Miller @TheresaMiller01
189 Followers 382 Following PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia examining cultural and literary representations of disability in nineteenth-century literature
Dr Ryan Sweet @RyanCSweet
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Victorian Network @Vic_Network
3K Followers 305 Following Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best research work in Victorian Studies.
Jim Mussell @jimmussell
2K Followers 2K Following Prof of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures @universityleeds literature; letterpress; material media; digital humanities.
Elisavet Ioannidou @ElisavetIoanni2
97 Followers 139 Following Adjunct Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pól Ó Ruanadha @paulraphrooney
251 Followers 452 Following Law grad. Past: postdoc researcher -- Victorian print media.
Dr Vicky Holmes FRHis... @Vicky_Holmes
1K Followers 984 Following Historian of the Victorian working-class home. Author of In Bed with the Victorians, now working on a book on living with lodgers. Tweets my own.
Ally @AProckford
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Dr Emma O'Toole @EmmaOToole2
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