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  • Beyond Contagion: Rethinking the History of Leprosy in the Medieval Mediterranean

    nna Gili 22 September 2026 – 5 PM (CEST) Given the variety of its pathological manifestations, leprosy was difficult for physicians in the past to recognise. They attempted to provide different pathological descriptions, distinct aetiologies, and varied clinical portraits to grasp its nature. Even the proposed treatments, although often influenced by the Galenic discovery of…

  • ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’ – David Turner in conversation with Jude Rogers

    South Wales Miners' Library, Y Storfa 277-278 Oxford St, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence is not down to any lack of evidence: it is a forgotten, suppressed history – the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book puts…

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