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A ground-breaking history of modern Britain that puts the experiences of disabled people to the fore for the first time. 'A timely and enjoyable untold history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'A rare feat of a book: so many extraordinary stories, so many lost names, brought to light' RAYMOND ANTROBUSDespite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence is not down to any lack of evidence: it is a forgotten, suppressed history – the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book puts disabled lives at the centre of the story of modern Britain. It tells a story of resistance and ingenuity, and often one of flourishing, full of people who refused to be silenced or pitied. We meet the seventeenth-century labourer, who fights accusations in court that he’s faking his disability – and wins; the eighteenth-century painter who signs her miniatures for royalty ‘without hands’; the nineteenth-century one-armed textile worker who turned his injury into activism, demanding reform in Parliament. From the mid-twentieth century, we see how disabled people got together to demand equality in education, housing, transport and the workplace – fighting for their right, not to be treated specially, but to lead ordinary lives like everybody else. For this ground-breaking and campaigning book, David Turner has unearthed countless forgotten voices and tales. He tells a story not about ‘progress’ led by doctors or philanthropists, but a ground-up history of ordinary people demanding dignity and justice. And by putting disabled people back into the national story, reveals a much fuller and richer history of modern Britain. 'Gripping, profound and important' GABRIEL WESTON'A lively, sensitive history' GAVIN FRANCIS'A fascinating, brilliant book ... I learned so much' TOM SHAKESPEARE

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Book category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte

• Full title: Disability
• Author: Professor David Turner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9781847927583
• ISBN: 1847927580
• ID: 49652184
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 750 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 156 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 2026

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