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Simone Cuff shares Dr Lisa-Ann Gershwin’s career story, including challenges and successes, for Disability History Month.

For Disability History Month, Kip Heath delves into Florence Seibert’s lifelong fight against infectious diseases. 

Thomas Alva Edison is famous as one of the pioneering inventors of the incandescent light bulb. The ‘light-bulb moment’ is now shorthand for a bright idea, and another of Edison’s inventions, the phonograph, would jump start the record industry - not bad for a man who was himself almost completely deaf. Kip Heath explores Edison's legacy as part of Disability History Month.