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History

Simon Jarrett book – Those They Called Idiots

Publisher’s Blog – When will we learn from history?

Diary: swimming not sinking

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’

The sorry failure of an ambitious plan

Moments in history; ‘There she goes’ and Asperges book reviews

Historic deaths, difficult questions

‘Three generations of imbeciles are enough …’

Asperger’s Nazi past

Forgotten lives commemorated

Handwriting a letter

Letters – Care charges and Calderstones cemetery update

Opportunities in less formal times

Darwin’s “idiots” and other animals

Institutional life opened up

Madhouse! The institution returns

Simon Jarrett: Exclusion for eternity – editor’s comment

The great American IQ panic of 1917

The Balance of Rights – a film on challenges faced

“The good, the bad and the ugly – my experience of conference work”

Interview John O’Brien: consultant, advisor, teacher, guide – or even a guru?

Elinor Harbridge: Brexit and the rules of an autocratic monarch could threaten the rights of disabled people

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