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The best kind of #DisHist is that of the everyday.
In 2014, @bbcouch researched the story of Duncan McKenzie and Nesta Holgate, a deaf British couple whose 1940 wedding featured in a British Pathé video.
1/n The black and white photo shows a photo of a couple at their wedding, smiling and surrounded by their friends.
2/n
'Everyone at the wedding is both deaf and dumb and they all converse in sign language.'
This is the video of the wedding, shot in 1940 and showing several shots of the wedding party, happy, excited and signing.
#DisHist #DeafHistory

britishpathe.com/video/deaf-and…
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 The wedding took place at Beverley Minster, which was supposed to be the resting place of St. John, who was supposed to heal the sick and to give the power of speech back to the nonverbal and hearing to the deaf.
#DisHist #DeafHistory The color photo shows a stained glass windowThe color photo shows the spires of a Gothic church against a clear blue sky.
4/n
 What is striking about the video is the patina of tragedy the narrator tries to superimpose on what was clearly a happy and joyous day for all involved. The participants are all smiling and signing vociferously, and yet the voiceover says.../
#DisHist #DisabilityIsNotATragedy The black and white photo shows two men smiling at the camera dressed in formal clothing, outside a church.The black and white photo shows a group of people in formal clothing, signing with each other.
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‘Their tragic handicap seems quite forgotten in the excitement of the novel occasion! Even the bride does not seem as shy as some!’

#DisHist #DisabilityIsNotATragedy #DeafHistory
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 Some historical context on marriages within deaf communities. In the #19thc, Thomas Gallaudet argued against the admission of ‘young women’ into Gallaudet College, because it ‘could increase the marriage of deaf mutes with deaf-mutes'....
#DisHist #Deaf
7/n
 Alexander Graham Bell: ‘By encouraging these unhappy creatures to... inter marry we certainly can increase the numbers of the idiotic blind deaf insane scrofulous deformed &...degenerate & so increase vastly the already too great amount of human suffering’
#DisHist #eugenics
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 Despite these anxieties, written and visual culture reveal a fascination with #deaf weddings.
Such marriages were routinely mentioned in newspapers often as a 'curiosity'.
The screenshots here vary from 1846-1942.
#DisHist #DeafHistory #Deaf/
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 In this lithograph by Henry Ash, titled 'A deaf mute wedding', with 'a hearing clergy reading the service, which is interpreted by another clergyman to the bride and bridegroom'
#DisHist #DeafHistory #Deaf
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 @bbcouch has much more to say about the lives and deaths of Duncan McKenzie and Nesta Holgate.
This is a beautiful, poignant example of how historical documents reveal the everyday experience of disability
Please do read it here:
bbc.com/news/blogs-ouc…
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1.
 What does disability offer as a category of historical analysis? Why does #DisHist matter?
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Artistic representations of dogs accompanying #blind singers, beggars etc from across the world suggests that they have often worked and lived alongside #disabled handlers..1/ The blind man wears patched clothing and seems to be a beggar: he is led by a skinny dog with its ribs showing. The blind man appears to be holding a stick to guide him as well.A medieval color illustration from the Book of Hours shows a blind man receives sight from Christ while his dog looks on.
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