Long before the modern disabled people's movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. David Turner reflects on the development of disabled people's activism in Victorian Britain.
What happens when we challenge the Eurocentric narrative that has dominated Chinese Deaf history? Shu Wan explores the early history of the Deaf community in China.
How did people with learning disabilities live before the asylum? Simon Jarrett interrogates the assumption that this community has always been hidden from mainstream society.
Alexandra F. Morris reflects on the presence of disability within ancient Egypt and how much can be identified by the lived expertise of disabled researchers.
Disabled people have always been at the heart of British economic and labour history, but their contributions in the workplace often go unrecognised. Gill Crawshaw explores.
A simple prosthetic hand demonstrates care for the physically impaired in early medieval Europe, but does it also say something about the political nature of that care?
What can The London Women's Handbook reveal about the Greater London Council and radical feminist organising? Lucy Brownson explores the 1986 Handbook which captures a turning point in British political and social life.
How does society approach the sexual desires of those with disabilities? Stephanie Wright explores the history of a lack of acknowledgement of vulnerable people's sexual autonomy , which can result in an increased possibility of harm.
Despite emancipationist rhetoric, asylum abolition was a cost-cutting exercise that has left us with a coercive and carceral system of care. Barbara Taylor on the new edition of Peter Barham's 'Closing the Asylum'.
Deborah Cohen's relentlessly compelling book Family Secrets unravels a complex and tangled history of how privacy, secrecy, and shame colluded and collided in the making of modern British family life
