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David Turner

@profdavidturner.bsky.social

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Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'll be discussing Disability a History of Resistance with Robin Ince at the British Library on 23 November. Come and join us for this Disability History Month event! events.bl.uk/events/resis...

A yellow flier for Resistance a History of Disability in Britain thanking place at 7pm on 23 November the British Library. The image includes photos of the author David Turner and host Robin Ince,two middle aged white men,either side of Turner's book cover.

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My (very small) office for the week, recording the audiobook of Disability: a History of Resistance. Radical Newport seems a fitting place to be recording my words on disabled people's role in 19th century working class struggles.

Recording studio vocal booth. A microphone is positioned above an iPad.

A book Disability a History of Resistance by David Turner. The cover shows a man without arms or legs in 18th century costume.

A white banner with the slogan AS ONE WE ARE STRONG, attributed to Zephaniah Williams

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

30 years ago today the Disability Discrimination Act became law in the UK. We're at Insole Court, Cardiff today for #BeingHumanFestival25 reflecting on it's legacy

Silver balloons spelling out Happy Birthday next to photos showing disability activism campaigns from the 1990s

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Great to be at the Being Human Festival launch at the BFI, showcasing our event on disability activism and the Disability Discrimination Act #disabiliyhistory #publichumanities

Sign saying Creative Protest and Celebration: 30 Years of the Disability Discrimination Act

Young man wearing black using a badge making machine watched by several people

Display of various colourful posters and photos showing aspects of disability activism from the early 1990s

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excited to be giving the keynote at #BSECS2025. Looking forward to meeting everyone and catching up with some old friends.

View of Pembroke College Oxford showing the Chapel and green grass of a quadrangle.

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

New publication: The Material Body, Ed. Lizzy Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey. Great to contribute a chapter, co-written with archaeologist Sophie Newman, on using skeletal and documentary evidence to research embodied experiences of disability and old age in the Industrial Revolution.

Cover of The Material Body, edited by Lizzy Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey showing an eighteenth century image of a lady in a blue dress carrying a fan, her body split in two to show the skeleton beneath.

Page from a book, the start of a chapter on disability and old age in the industrial revolution by Sophie Newman and David Turner.

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Proud of my former PhD student Gemma Almond-Brown on the publication of her book, Spectacles and the Victorians, which examines how new technologies of measuring and correcting vision created categories of 'normal' eyesight and sight impairment in 19thc Britain #skystorians #disabilityhistory

Cover for Spectacles and the Victorians, a book by Gemma Almond-Brown. It depicts a Victorian image of two men wearing suits sitting opposite each other, one wearing Spectacles while the other looks at his eyes with a small hand held device to test his vision.

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