Angela Turner

She knew her prosthetic leg would make her less conspicuous as a spy in Nazi-occupied France. Was she right? The Gestapo nicknamed her "The Limping Lady". Here's what Virginia Hall did with the SOE during WW2: (a thread)

In July 1940, amidst the chaos of WW2, a British ship set sail from Liverpool carrying over 2,500 men labeled as "enemy aliens". Little did they know, this journey would be one of the darkest maritime chapters of British history. This is the story of HMT Dunera: (a thread)

‼️JOB‼️ This is 3 of 3 new posts we have open, funded by the Charlotte Lythe bequest. Closing Date: 5-Jan-2025 Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration (667128) strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Redirect.aspx?…

Disability History Month runs from 14 November to 20 December. The latest blog from @StrathArchives and corresponding display on Level 3 of the Library takes a closer look at the 1981 International Year of Disabled People and SPAID: guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/blogs/archives…

I am giving a talk on three key moments in the UK disability rights movement for #DisabilityHistoryMonth at @unibirmingham Wed 11th Dec, 12-1pm, hybrid (with online captions), free, and open to all! birmingham.ac.uk/events/disabil… #DisabilityTwitter @CoSS_Birmingham @artsatbham

43% of disabled people and people with a long-term health condition are likely to be inactive. #UnitingTheMovement aims to remove the barriers to activity and tackle stubborn inequalities 🦾 #DisabilityHistoryMonth

Exciting sneak preview of @Enable_Tweets 70th Anniversary Exhibition on the first day of #DisabilityHistoryMonth yesterday. 200,000 people will see it in @ScotRail/@networkrail's #Glasgow Central this weekend. Supported by @HeritagefundUK thanks to #NationalLottery players

Great @TheScotsman article on @Enable_Tweets's Our Past, My Future Exhibition Tour of Scotland starts at our busiest station, Glasgow Central, this weekend. We're proud to have supported the project, thanks to National Lottery Players scotsman.com/news/watch-exh…

Join us at ‘Our Past, My Future’ exhibition , celebrating 7 decades of change & inspiring stories from people with learning disabilities. Made possible by @HeritageFundUK & special thanks to National Lottery players. We’d love to see you there! #NationalLottery #HeritageFund

My book's coming out as a paperback in November - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152237/. It's mostly been reviewed as a book about the Troubles, which it sort of is, but if anyone would like to review it as an oral history, which it definitely is, please let me know!

Strathclyde University is on the lookout for volunteers in Inverclyde to take part in a history project. dlvr.it/TDXQgl

Join us this Thursday (19th) as we discuss all things Paralympics with Evan T. Baughman! We will be thinking about discourses around the games, and the visibility of disabled athletes. #DisHist

Very much looking forward to participating in this veterans conference with Wendy Webster & @SilenceInPolish at Craiglockhart, relatively unchanged since Owen & Sassoon resided there in #FWW

Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles showed love to Rebeca Andrade after she won her first gold medal of the Paris Olympics ❤️

Challenging the Gender Binary of War: Munitions and Disability During the Second World War by Amy Dale. womenshistorynetwork.org/cchallenging-t… #DisabilityPrideMonth

SOHC member Lucy Smith has started her recruiting process for oral history interviews - if you or anyone you know are German or of German descent in the UK, get in touch with her and be a part of a fascinating new history project!

💡 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 💡 It’s time for me to start looking for participants for my PhD research! All details on the poster, feel free to fire me an email if you have any questions 😊 @ScotOralHist @StrathHaSS @OralHistorySoc hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ef…

My new article on disability history, smallpox, and vaccinations in Meiji Japan is now available in Osiris vol. 39! Many thanks to the amazing @jaivirdi @maramills Sarah Rose and editors/staff team in the review/production process! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…