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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.