David Turner lives in Wales and is Professor of History at Swansea University. He is fascinated by the question of what happens to our understanding of the past if we put people traditionally marginalized in history at the centre of the story. For over twenty years he has been teaching and researching the history of disability. He was academic advisor on Disability: A New History (BBC Radio 4) and Silenced: the Hidden Story of Disabled Britain (BBC2). His books include Disability in Eighteenth-Century England (Routledge, 2012), which won the Disability History Association’s Outstanding Publication Award. He is currently working on a book that explores how disabled people’s lives have changed in Britain since the sixteenth century.