
History


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?

The enduring values of the Rathbone family

Are today’s attitudes any better than those in the past?

Are today’s attitudes any better than those in the past?

The forgotten people of the ‘back wards’

Where did ideas about learning disabilities come from?

Dorothy Atkinson How people’s own stories led her to a career in learning disability history

“If things were different in the past, they can be different in the future”
