Disability: A New History Podcast
Drawing on new research, Peter White presents a history of disability in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Episodes to download
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A Disabled Identity
Fri 7 Jun 2013
10/10 Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
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Brave Poor Things
Thu 6 Jun 2013
9/10 Peter White searches for the voices of children with disabilities in the 19th century.
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Wooden Legs and Wheelchairs
Tue 4 Jun 2013
7/10 Peter White has a close encounter with an aristocratic wooden leg.
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Doing and Being
Mon 3 Jun 2013
6/10 Peter White finds that disabled people were everywhere in the 19th-century workplace.
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Finding a Voice
Fri 31 May 2013
5/10 Peter White discusses an 18th-century MP's remarkable account of living with disability.
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Beauty and Deformity
Thu 30 May 2013
4/10 Peter White on the impact that ideas about beauty and deformity had on people's lives.
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Freaks and Entrepreneurs
Wed 29 May 2013
3/10 Peter White challenges our modern ideas of freaks - were they in fact great entrepreneurs?
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Miracle Cures
Tue 28 May 2013
2/10 Peter White investigates the roots of the idea of the 'miracle cure'.
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The Only Dwarf in Liverpool
Mon 27 May 2013
1/10 Peter White finds a remarkable letter in his history of disabled people.
