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The Only Dwarf in Liverpool

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

• 14 mins

Miracle Cures

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

• 14 mins

Freaks and Entrepreneurs

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

• 14 mins

Beauty and Deformity

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

• 14 mins

Finding a Voice

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

• 15 mins

Doing and Being

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

• 14 mins

Wooden Legs and Wheelchairs

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

• 14 mins

Sex and Marriage

Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled people.

• 14 mins

Brave Poor Things

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

• 14 mins

A Disabled Identity

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

• 14 mins