Tag: Disability History Month Records and researchManufacturing artificial limbs during the First World WarThursday 7 December 2023How did conflict change the way that artificial limbs were manufactured?...Records and researchWinston Churchill’s hearing lossWednesday 30 November 2022Winston Churchill experienced ill health throughout his life; he caught pneumonia multiple times, sustained...Records and researchFirst World War ambulance trainsFriday 18 November 2022The railways, and the men and women who worked on them, made a significant...Records and researchMary Hare’s Pioneering Establishment: The Dene Hollow Oral School for the DeafWednesday 16 November 2022This blog post looks at the Dene Hollow Oral School for the Deaf, which...Records and research20sPeople: Rehabilitation of disabled First World War Servicemen – The Enham Village CentreMonday 13 December 2021Over one million British men were disabled by disease or injury as a result...Behind the scenesMental Health on Record: A film created by young peopleMonday 16 December 2019‘Lunatic’, ‘hysterical’, ‘eccentric’, ‘imbecile’ are just some of the words which have been used...Records and research‘Not of so merry cheer’: Falling sickness in the early modern periodThursday 12 December 2019Contemporary definitions, diagnoses and cures for the neurological condition commonly known as falling sickness...Records and researchThalidomide: Limb-fitting centresMonday 9 December 2019Thalidomide was one of the worst man-made medical disasters in history and had far-reaching...Records and researchLiving with leprosy in late medieval EnglandThursday 5 December 2019Leprosy – now known as Hansen’s disease in order to remove the stigma with...Records and research‘Needs tactful and sympathetic treatment’: Mental health during the First World WarMonday 2 December 2019The image of the shell shocked soldier remains one of the most enduring of...Records and researchMedieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383Thursday 28 November 2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people...Records and researchDamnified, quantified and classified: Descriptions of disability in government recordsMonday 25 November 2019Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December. To mark it, The... 1 2 »
