Perspectives on the Historical Approach to Dementia

by Laura DietlDementia has, thus far, received little attention in Disability History. This post aims to change that. Firstly, dementia’s relevance to the field will be established, along with key methodological challenges. A brief historical overview of how dementia has been...

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“Thou lump of foul deformity”: Richard III, William Shakespeare, and The Lost King

By Emmeline BurdettThe 2022 film ‘The Lost King’ tells the story of how the remains of the last Plantagenet king of England, Richard III (1452-1485) were rediscovered in a car park in Leicester, in 2012. (The Plantagenet dynasty ruled England from 1154 until 1485 and was succeeded...

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Disability history in the classroom – the LETHE-project

By Sebastian Barsch & Andreas HübnerDisability History is not only an academic subject. The question of the social construction of disability also raises fundamental questions about how power is distributed in a society, how normality and abnormality are defined and how...

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The "Counter-Monument" of the Grey Buses: Emotion Networking as a Method for Public Disability History

By Janneke van der Heide & Jan-Christian WilkeningIntroduction Remembering the crimes committed against people with disabilities during the Nazi era as part of the T4 program is organized in many ways in Germany. Exhibitions and memorial sites are an integral part of this...

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Bearly Inspirational: Florence Attwood and Mavis Rendle

By Emmeline BurdettA lot of the information in this blog is based on a Merrythought blog post about Florence Attwood, and on sources kindly supplied by Merrythought, including an article entitled ‘A Deaf Toy Designer’, by Doreen Woodford, which was originally published in the...

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The Forgotten Room of the association Valentin Haüy in Paris, or How to Build an Inclusive Digitisation Project on the History of Blindness

By Céline Roussel & Marion ChottinRediscovering Maurice de la Sizeranne’s Cultural ProjectAs Marion and I were exploring for our academic research – for CNRS-projects on the one hand, for a doctoral thesis at Paris-Sorbonne on the other – the field of disability studies,...

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