Disability: A New HistoryEpisodes Available now

A Disabled Identity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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