BBC Radio Podcasts from Disability: A New History

A Disabled Identity

Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.

Peter White searches for the voices of children with disabilities in the 19th century.

Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled people.

Peter White has a close encounter with an aristocratic wooden leg.

Peter White finds that disabled people were everywhere in the 19th-century workplace.

Peter White discusses an 18th-century MP's remarkable account of living with disability.

Peter White on the impact that ideas about beauty and deformity had on people's lives.

Peter White challenges our modern ideas of freaks - were they in fact great entrepreneurs?

Peter White investigates the roots of the idea of the 'miracle cure'.

Peter White finds a remarkable letter in his history of disabled people.