Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille.
How can zines be used to communicate disability history through a non-medical lens? Richard Amm reflects on the zine-making project run by the Disability Action Research Kollective.
Long before the modern disabled people's movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. David Turner reflects on the development of disabled people's activism in Victorian Britain.
What happens when we challenge the Eurocentric narrative that has dominated Chinese Deaf history? Shu Wan explores the early history of the Deaf community in China.
How can we understand historical figures as products of their time? Kerry Lindeque examines the contradictory radicalism of Britain's most famous drag king
How did people with learning disabilities live before the asylum? Simon Jarrett interrogates the assumption that this community has always been hidden from mainstream society.
Can a local past be used to inspire women's agency and autonomy in the present day? Siobhan Lambert-Hurley reflects on her collaboration with a local women's group in Bhopal.
Disabled people have always been at the heart of British economic and labour history, but their contributions in the workplace often go unrecognised. Gill Crawshaw explores.
Ayahs and Amahs were empire's care-workers, raising the children of colonial families. Julia Laite on a new online exhibition that foregrounds their stories.
Julie Hardwick, Marybeth Hamilton, Kate Gibson, Sarah Roddy, Orsi Husz, Andrew Popp & Alexia Yates
What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past?
As the Scottish Parliament considers the ‘not proven’ verdict’s future, Valerie Wallace and Tommy Boyd look back at the nineteenth-century debate on the verdict in colonial New Zealand.
