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Radio 4,2 mins

What pain I do suffer will prepare me for what’s to come

Disability: A New History

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Peter investigates the attitudes of the evangelical Christians of the 19th Century who created propaganda leaflets promoted to the infirm instructing them how to act in that state and to suffer the burden placed upon them with docility and humility.

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