Disability or Impairment through History

The figures you cover build images of world history for the learners in your care,

is everyone seeing themselves?

Disabilities in Prehistory

by TREY the Explainer

Science youtuber Trey the Explainer looks at what the evidence can tell us about the lives of people with disabilities before recorded history.

The History Of Prosthetics Explained

by History Scope

An illustrated video on the history of prosthetics

Götz of the Iron Hand -

Cyborg Knight Prosthetics

by Extra History

The story of Götz Von Berlichingen, known for his bad attitude and prosthetic hand

The History of the treatment of disabled people in Ireland

by Strategies for Change

Dr Pauline Conroy talks about her research on the history of how disabled people have been treated in Ireland.

Medieval Disabled Bodies

by Medievalists

Lucie Laumonier talks to Adelheid Russenberger, a PhD candidate in history at Queen Mary University of London, England, about medieval disabilities and what it meant, in the Middle Ages, to be disabled.

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