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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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“People see the disability but forget the ability”

I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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  • The first photo shows the physical condition of the youth of the nation as revealed by the war. The second shows what can be achieved by scientific methods of physical education and culture, and how imperative such methods are to safeguard us against physical deterioration and disease in future years.
  • Typical physical skin complaints caused by the HIV virus that leads to AIDS including rashes, purple blistering, emaciation and open sores; an AIDS prevention advertisement by The Ministry of Education Training, Vietnam. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A comparative analysis of the theory of applies gymnastics (sports and games, etc.) in general : arranged with a view to classifying the special types as auxiliaries to physical education / by the Baron Nils Posse, K.G.V.
  • Children encouraged by their teachers to box as a positive and healthy recreation. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1858.
  • Advert for "Anti-Stiff", a cream for the muscular system
  • Gymnastic exercises for 7-8 year olds in China. Colour lithograph, 1973.
  • La culture physique.
  • La culture physique.
  • Body-building, or, Man in the making : how to become healthy & strong : containing sets of exercises and special photos of Mr. Sandow and family / written by Eugen Sandow.
  • La culture physique.
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