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Thread:1.What does disability offer as a category of historical analysis? Why does #DisHist matter?Here is an eg:Born in Sardinia, Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) lived with physical disability, possibly due to Pott's
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Thread1.The history of this day reveals the internationalisation of disability & disability policy in the twentieth century, and dates back to 1976, when the UN proclaimed 1981 the International Year
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Thread:1/nToday is #NationalDogDay!Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked
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Thread for #BlackHistoryMonth on #blackdisabilityhistory:1.In 1971, Louis D Mitchell wrote a piece in the @NAACP’s The Crisis mag titled ‘The Blackness of Blindness’, a fascinating piece on the genesis/
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