Disability by David Turner review – a revelatory new history

This study of the struggle for rights includes incredible personal stories that we should all be more familiar with You could take two outwardly contradictory lessons from the historian David Turner’s new book on disability in the UK. First, that alarmingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern age (the book’s first few stories, of 17th-century men and women having to prove they were disabled enough to receive parish support to avoid starvation, will be fami...

By Lucy Webster