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Simon Jarrett

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Historian & writer. Author of 'Those they called Idiots' Out now: A History of Disability in England (Liverpool University Press) Chair @CoraliDanceComp
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Paired with pictures from the past

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By Simon Jarrett
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Twenty-five years ago, Professor O Conor Ward, biographer of John Langdon Down, the man credited with the “discovery” of what is now known as Down syndrome, made an intriguing discovery himself. Beneath a desk in an office at Normansfield Hospital in London, one of Down’s former hospitals, was a box containing glass slides of 200 photographs, all taken in the 1860s. These were forgotten photos of patients at the Earlswood Idiot Asylum, as it was known, in Redhill, Surrey.
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Challenging social norms or reinforcing tired stereotypes?

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By Simon Jarrett
| Community Living Verified
Un P’tit Truc en Plus (A Little Something Extra) Director: Artus 2024; available on DVD This film tells the story of a father-and-son criminal pair who, after a jewellery heist, evade police by joining a coachload of people with learning disabilities bound for their annual jaunt to a holiday camp. The son is mistaken for a learning disabled person, Sylvain, for whom the group are waiting.
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Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder. By Sara Ryan, Routledge, 2026. 117 pp. £31.99 (PBK). (161 including back matter). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐260500‐5 (PBK).

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By Simon Jarrett
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