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A pioneering history of modern Britain, highlighting for the first time the experiences of people with disabilities(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782/disability-by-turner-david/9781847927583). Despite there being more than 16 million people with disabilities in the UK today, disability is rarely mentioned in mainstream narratives of our history. This absence is not due to a lack of evidence, but rather a forgotten and suppressed history, the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book places the lives of disabled people at the heart of the story of modern Britain. It tells a story of resistance, creativity, and often prosperity, filled with people who refused silence or pity. We meet a 17th-century worker who fought charges in court for faking his disability—and won; the 18th-century painter who signed her miniature paintings of the royal family “without using her hands”; The one-armed 19th-century textile worker who turned his injury into a struggle, demanding reform in Parliament. Since the middle of the twentieth century, we have seen how people with disabilities have joined forces to demand equality in education, housing, transportation, and workplaces, fighting for their right to live a normal life like others, not in special treatment. In this groundbreaking, hard-hitting book, David Turner uncovers countless forgotten voices and stories. It tells a story not about "progress" led by doctors or philanthropists, but a popular history of ordinary people demanding dignity and justice. By reintegrating disabled people into national history, he reveals a richer and deeper history of modern Britain.