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 …
By Lauren Chaloner Located in the North Western suburb of Sheffield between Middlewood and Wadsley, Middlewood Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital first opened in 1872. Although visitors to the site today would be met with rows of modern family homes, in the early nineteenth century this was quite a different story. The hospital is …
By Bethan Davis “It appears that there is in England somewhere, a Miss Groom who thinks she is doing a good work by purchasing a quarter section of land in the North West and settling a colony of fifty deaf mutes upon it.” Toronto World, 1884 This alarmist article refers to an emigration scheme invented …
By Hannah McCann When discussing the life of Princess Alice of Battenberg, people often describe it as ‘stranger than fiction’. But that undermines the achievements of a remarkable woman who, despite being born in the presence of her grandmother Queen Victoria and dying in the home of her daughter-in-law Queen Elizabeth II, was immensely humble …
By Anya Goulthorpe Frida Kahlo (1907-54) is known as a mogul of the artistic realm. The average person may know her from the self-portrait ‘with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird’, featuring the now iconic monobrow, which now stands in the artistic hall of fame. However, some – not even avid art enthusiasts – may know Kahlo’s …
By Charlie Bunker Franklin Roosevelt was and remains the longest serving President in the history of the United States. In the 12 years Roosevelt led America, he won a record four presidential elections, dragged his country from the depths of the Great Depression, and commanded the free world to victory in the Second World War …
