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Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

Lucy Jameson explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.

Lucy Jameson explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.

Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health.  Disabled Empire exami...

Selling Sex Toys: Marketing and the Meaning of Vibrators in Early Twentieth-Century America - Volume 17 Issue 2

The five-day conference is being held at Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), and the National Museum of…

Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.

This guide, produced by the Disabled Student Commitment Information Sharing Special Interest Group, examines how HEPs manage and share disability-related information, drawing on survey data, sector ca...

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. Coreen McGuire’s co-authored article in Aeon explores how, during the interwar years, some viewed it as an opportunity.

The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.

Science and the city: reviewing Naples, London and Lisbon

Live from New York, because #ScholarSunday travels, here’s my 272nd thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as wid...

Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity

Is the return of wired headphones driven by a simple desire for better sound quality or is it part of a backlash against modern tech? Thomas Germain tries to find out.

Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than active....