Global histories of disability, 1700-2015 : power, place and people / edited by Esmee Cleall.

Cripping the archive : disability, history, and power / edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy ; foreword by Jaipreet Virdi.

Ring of fire : continuations : [audio narrated version].

Freak Babylon : an illustrated history of teratology & freakshows / Jack Hunter.

Ring of fire : continuations : [BSL version]

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Global histories of disability, 1700-2015 : power, place and people / edited by Esmee Cleall.

Cripping the archive : disability, history, and power / edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy ; foreword by Jaipreet Virdi.

Ring of fire : continuations : [audio narrated version].

Freak Babylon : an illustrated history of teratology & freakshows / Jack Hunter.

Ring of fire : continuations : [BSL version]