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Disability: A New HistoryEpisodes

  1. Omnibus Edition - 2/2

    12/10Peter White reveals the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries

  2. Omnibus Edition - 1/2

    11/10Peter White reveals the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries

  3. A Disabled Identity

    10/10Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.

  4. Brave Poor Things

    9/10Peter White searches for the voices of children with disabilities in the 19th century.

  5. Sex and Marriage

    8/10Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled people.

  6. Wooden Legs and Wheelchairs

    7/10Peter White has a close encounter with an aristocratic wooden leg.

  7. Doing and Being

    6/10Peter White finds that disabled people were everywhere in the 19th-century workplace.

  8. Finding a Voice

    5/10Peter White discusses an 18th-century MP's remarkable account of living with disability.

  9. Beauty and Deformity

    4/10Peter White on the impact that ideas about beauty and deformity had on people's lives.

  10. Freaks and Entrepreneurs

    3/10Peter White challenges our modern ideas of freaks - were they in fact great entrepreneurs?

  11. Miracle Cures

    2/10Peter White investigates the roots of the idea of the 'miracle cure'.

  12. The Only Dwarf in Liverpool

    1/10Peter White finds a remarkable letter in his history of disabled people.