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How medieval disability studies can help us approach modern social issues

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

This article will discuss the ways in which disability history can promote educational inclusion through learning about African disability history. This will include a discussion of the need to re-orient disabled people’s history away from narratives dominated by white northern, especially Anglo-American narratives and raising awareness of, and appreciation for, histories of disabled people in a field that is developing at a rapid pace. The following is therefore a reflection by a non-expert on disability historians whose work on varied African historical and cultural contexts is essential to underlining how disability history is global. It can be taught as such, thanks to the work of scholars and activists like those cited in this article.

A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history

This open access book explores what kinds of sources and methodologies are needed for a history of experience.

Lucy Jameson explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.

Victorian Britain was a heavily visual era. Sighted people gained access to the Penny Post, and the ability to communicate with friends across the nation with relative ease in an alphabet which was…

Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Colonising Disability

The chapter examines the conditions of agrarian working life and the work activities and opportunities available to individuals with mobility, visual, or other sensory and mental impairments in early ...

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Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but

In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity

BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries

This volume explores the changing field of cultural history to map out its new developments and future directions, covering major themes such as environment, (de)colonization, digitization, knowledge,...

EUI Professor Monika Baár will give a talk in the framework of the History Department Monthly Research Meetings.

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...

The international conference Between Marginal and Mainstream is held at the University of Helsinki on 11–13 March 2026. You can upload the conference programme as PDF here: ELBOW Con…

The international conference Between Marginal and Mainstream is held at the University of Helsinki on 11–13 March 2026. You can upload the conference programme as PDF here: ELBOW Con…

Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

This article explores changing attitudes towards types of aids for blind people in the interwar period. The authors focus particularly on the dispute over the relative value of the guide dog, as a...

Abstract This article examines the global (im)mobilities of guide dogs beyond Europe and North America, and how they have been shaped by space, cultural norms, and legal vagaries. Tracing the historie...

On December 13, 1933, Captain A. J. C. Sington, then Chairman of the British Guide Dogs for the Blind, read a letter from an unnamed veteran of the Great War to the Northern Counties Association fo…

”[…] Kynnys voi olla myös ovella, joka vie kohti parempaa tulevaisuutta. Kynnyksen ei tarvitse olla korkea eikä sen tarvitse estää meitä kulkemasta. Päinvastoin se voi olla hyvin suunniteltu ja muotoi...

In this EUIResearch interview, Max Weber Fellow Elisa Heinrich explores how feminist and disability rights activists in Germanspeaking Europe built networks,

Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in the early modern period, circa 1500–1750. The collection guides re...

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The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

Abstract. This study of iron hands situates prosthetics at the nexus of several confluent craft fields in the late Middle Ages. In particular, it shows the

The first series of the Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC) is now open for research.