Disability: A New History: A Disabled Identity

Peter White reveals the birth of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century through the lives of two blind women, Therese-Adele Husson and Hippolyte van Landeghem, who fought the conventions of their time. With historians Selina Mills, David Turner and Julie Anderson, plus readings by Emily Bevan and Madeleine Brolly. First aired in 2013