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Susanna Shapland

Susanna Shapland

Susanna Shapland is a historian and regular contributor to Community Living.
Medieval farming

Medieval assessments

Franco Basaglia

Land with no asylums

Cover of Good Times, Bad Times

Women lead on stories

View in 1956 of Los Angeles towards Pomona

Own eyes, own words

Mabel Cooper

Outside and outspoken

Follow Me - US Army enlistment poster

Joining the front line

Royal Earlswood Hospital

Wish you were here…?

Walter E. Fernald State School

Club with a toxic secret

Imbecile or just bizarre?

Gary Bourlet

Speaking up for 50 years

Home for Feeble-minded children, Eldridge, Sonoma County

Humanity in fiction

Securing marriage with a free wife

A History of Intelligence and "Intellectual Disability" - book cover

Waves of history roll over the years

Absconding as an act of resistance

Scandal that led to hospital closures

Brave New World: satire or blueprint?

‘Idiocy’ in early modern England

From people last to People First

Payback time arrives at long last

From sidelined to expert storytellers

Moments in history

A source of affection then shame

Let him have it: a victim of ‘justice’

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