Disability History Snapshots

Many people have asked me over the last few months for a good place to start learning about disability history, but arguably, there isn't...

EVEN NEWER AND MORE IMPROVED: Go to www.coviddisabilityarchive.com for this same information but with a more logical domain! There is a...

I've decided to write a few quick primers to disability history, as I haven't written anything here for a while since I've been working...

While this pandemic has put a spanner in the works of a lot of academic historical projects, mine included, it has vastly increased the...

EVEN MORE OF A CONTENT WARNING THAN ABOVE. This post is made up of historical terms for disability of which many are considered extremely...

Ever wondered where the terms "mesmerising" and "animal magnetism" come from? No? Well you're about to find out anyway so shut up.

Hey look, this isn't about the Coronavirus! Ugly Clubs were an invention of the long 18th Century (generally covering the time between...

This post has been a long time coming (it's actually not even technically the one you're waiting for, it's an interim one) but what do...

This was originally written for Twitter in the 8 days leading up to Christmas (it was originally going to be the traditional 12 days but...

While the theme for this year's Disability History Month is Leadership, Resistance and Culture, for this post I'm going a slightly...

If I was more prepared and organised, I would have researched and written this in time for the 50th anniversary of lthe Apollo moon...

This post comes to you on the day that it has been announced that here in the UK, we have lost our "measles free" status. This is a very...

Unfortunately there was no way I felt I could put off talking about eugenics any longer. As much as I would love to stick to the stories...

This post is a little earlier than usual, it didn't require as much digging as usual! I might try and add something else in before the...

Pain relief and the availability of them is very 'in’ right now, with all the talk of the opioid crisis and the very real problems that...

This is my first post here on disability history. Of course I feel like I'm not at all experienced enough for this but I don't think...