After around 10 years of archival detective work, I couldn't be more excited to share my newly published article on the working lives of people with intellectual #disabilities in twentieth century Britain
#histodons
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad043
Slow Workers: Labelling and Labouring in Britain, c. 1909–1955

Summary. This article surveys the experiences of historical actors labelled ‘mentally defective’ and ‘mentally handicapped’ in Britain in the first half of the

OUP Academic