This study examines physical disability in 18th century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cult

Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writ

This Handbook brings together twenty-nine authors from around the world, each expert in a different area within the history of disability. This collection of ne

Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food