‘Likely to conduce to the happiness and advantage of the inmates’? – Victorian Education for Deaf Children.
‘Disability is everywhere in history, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent from the histories we write’ observed Douglas Baynton in 2001. Of course, since then historians have begun to fill this lacuna and disability history has burgeoned, especially here at Swansea University. Baynton’s argument that disability is everywhere in history carries particular resonance … More ‘Likely to conduce to the happiness and advantage of the inmates’? – Victorian Education for Deaf Children.