Volume 19: Disability History Month
Volume 19: Disability History Month
Updated 23 February 2022
Editor’s note
Disability History Month occurs from 18 November to 20 December and is an annual event in the UK. I have decided to bring the New Histories volume dedicated to the history of disability and disabled people forward, to allow the volume enough time in the spot-light before the winter break. Disability History Month is vital as the history of disabled people is one of the most overlooked areas of history.
In this volume, Lauren Chaloner explores 19th-century attitudes to disability as well as the impact of the First World War on physical disability at Middlewood Hospital in Sheffield. Bethan Davis has penned a piece on Jane Groom’s Deaf Colony which is an under researched area. I have written about the remarkable life of Princess Alice while Anya Goulthorpe has written about Frida Kahlo’s lesser known experience of poliomyelitis and draws upon her moving artwork (specifically The Broken Column).
In a similar vein, Charlie Bunker has explored President Roosevelt’s paralysis which was caused by the poliovirus.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this volume,
Hannah McCann (Editor-in-Chief)
Issue 19.pdf