The Pandemic and Teaching Practice: thoughts on subtitles and accessibility

Check out my blog for History UK on why subtitles are a crucial part of the way that we can retain and embed accessibility into our learning in the long term.

Pandemic Pedagogy 2.0: Coreen McGuire – The Pandemic and Teaching Practice: thoughts on subtitles and accessibility https://www.history-uk.ac.uk/2021/02/04/pandemic-pedagogy-2-0-coreen-mcguire-the-pandemic-and-teaching-practice-thoughts-on-subtitles-and-accessibility/

Making Women Count in Disability History

‘Women in history have been made meaningful through the efforts of a generation of historians who have (and continue to) work in innovate ways to reveal previously concealed histories. I continue in this tradition by highlighting the ways in which women matter to disability history…’

To read more check out my blog post for the Women’s History Network available here –

Hidden In Heritage

2-3PM (GMT) Virtual Event with Jaipreet Virdi
OBJECTS OF CONCEALMENT AND POWER

Early modern hearing devices were grand feats of mechanical ingenuity. Some were built to be as large as a house; they were hardly practical, or personal objects for aiding hearing. By the nineteenth century, the design shifted and hearing devices were designed to be conspicuous, concealed in the body or masked as furniture: urns, fans, walking canes, and headbands contained cleverly obscured trumpets. Using examples of historical hearing devices, this talk discusses the socio-cultural context that was driving the concealment features of some of these designs and why, despite the variability of models, only the more expensive objects have survived to this day. How does the perseverance of certain objects end up skewing the story we are telling? Exploring the materiality of our hidden hearing heritage, we also explore the stories of people who used these devices, some of whom wielded their ear trumpets not as objects of stigma or concealment, but rather, as objects of power.