
History


A book for those with a child like mine

When a screen star shone a spotlight

Diary: swimming not sinking

The arch humanitarian

Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life

A source of affection then shame

Fear of being ‘sent away’

Let him have it: a victim of ‘justice’

Historic deaths, difficult questions

‘Three generations of imbeciles are enough …’

Asperger’s Nazi past

Darwin’s “idiots” and other animals

The great American IQ panic of 1917

History – When the ‘state boys’ fought back

Herman Gross – artist inspired by children with learning disabilities

A pioneer advocate for people with Down’s syndrome

Making ‘Science and The Swastika’ – Hitler’s war against disabled people

Would knowledge of the origins of village communities help us to understand them?

King Carlos of Spain, the great survivor

The lone libertarian – Josiah Wedgwood and the Mental Deficiency act 1913

Searching for the truth about long-stay hospitals

The Coldharbour hospital fire – why did 30 people lose their lives?
