The Historian 170: Disability
The magazine of the Historical Association
In this edition of The Historian
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4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Disability history – Daniel Blackie and Alexia Moncrieff
10 Deaf marriages and sign language recognition – Rosamund Oates
16 Thinking with disability: mapping a disability history perspective onto the history of the British Empire – Esme Cleall
22 ‘I am your most troublesome pauper’: disability and the New Poor Law – Carol Beardmore
30 Broken bodies and racial lessons: disabled Wehrmacht veterans in Nazi Germany – Christopher Thomas Goodwin
34 News – Disability matters: new directions for the discipline of history
36 Real lives: ‘Children couldn’t have been treated like that’: important lessons from the childhood experiences of Harry Drabble – Helen Parker-Drabble
39 In conversation with David Turner
44 The ‘Real Boxers at Earls Court’: relief and resistance in Imre Kiralfy’s siege of Peking (1901) – Robert Brown
50 Jeeves and the British Empire – Sean Lang
55 Talleyrand and the French Revolution – William Doyle
60 Doing history: Exploring behind the scenes in the corridors of power: visiting The National Archives – Steve Illingworth
63 Out and about: The Witney Blanket Mills: a short history – Isabella Duncan
66 Reviews
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Cover image: A Japanese woodcut by K. Hokusai thought to be from the mid-nineteenth century depicting ‘blind men fording a stream’. Wellcome Collection, public domain
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