Disability: A New History Episodes Available now
- All
- Available now (10)
- Next on (0)
A Disabled Identity
10/10 Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
Brave Poor Things
9/10 Peter White searches for the voices of children with disabilities in the 19th century.
Sex and Marriage
8/10 Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled people.
Wooden Legs and Wheelchairs
7/10 Peter White has a close encounter with an aristocratic wooden leg.
Doing and Being
6/10 Peter White finds that disabled people were everywhere in the 19th-century workplace.
Finding a Voice
5/10 Peter White discusses an 18th-century MP's remarkable account of living with disability.
Beauty and Deformity
4/10 Peter White on the impact that ideas about beauty and deformity had on people's lives.
Freaks and Entrepreneurs
3/10 Peter White challenges our modern ideas of freaks - were they in fact great entrepreneurs?
Miracle Cures
2/10 Peter White investigates the roots of the idea of the 'miracle cure'.
The Only Dwarf in Liverpool
1/10 Peter White finds a remarkable letter in his history of disabled people.
