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  • The Church of England and learning disability after 1945: a first sketch

    This is the unrevised text of a paper delivered at the conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society in Exeter in 2017. Although the effect is now jarring, I retain contemporary language in quotations (and paraphrases of quotations), including terms of reference to people with disabilities which we would not now use. Alternatively, there is an…

  • The Church of England and learning disability, 1945-1990

    My paper for this year’s Ecclesiastical History Society conference. The Church of England and learning disability, 1945 – 1990 The full text of the paper, as read, is available here.

  • Michael Ramsey – an autistic archbishop ?

    [Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury between 1961 and 1974, and possibly one of the greatest holders of the office in modern times, was also widely known for his eccentricity and difficulty in social situations. This post suggests that Ramsey was autistic, in an age before the term had been coined. It goes on to consider…