The impact of the British Civil Wars on the experience of disability, 1640-1700

英国内战对残疾经历的影响，1640-1700

• 批准号: 2878424
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2878424
• 关键词: impact; British; Civil; Wars; experience

The brutal conflict between 1642 and 1651 required the country to adapt to a large rise in its disabled population and in doing so it needed to create a more robust infrastructure to support disabled veterans and civilians. My thesis will address how post-war society catered to the needs of these disabled people, how disabled people advocated for themselves, and how others represented their needs on their behalf.This study will assess how the Civil War changed the experience of physical disability in the seventeenth century. This is supported by subsidiary research questions including: how did disabled veterans learn to navigate the world with their impairment? How effective were government strategies in catering to disabled people? How did changes brought about by the Civil War affect disabled civilians? What can we learn from Civil War petitions about the lives of the disabled poor?To identify the experience of physically disabled individuals in the seventeenth century, this study will focus around three main themes: poverty, work, and mobility. In order to do this, it will use civil war petitions digitised by the Civil War Petitions Project team alongside other sources. Regarding the theme of poverty, Geoffrey Hudson has identified that as disabled veterans grew older, their approach to claiming support changed. Therefore, this study will explore survival strategies of the disabled poor to negotiate life-cycle poverty and life with a disability. In order to explore the theme of work, this study will read against the grain of petitions to identify how disability affected an individual's ability to participate in a labour driven society. Daniel Blackie has highlighted that there were two categories of work-limiting disability: occupational disability and general disability. This research will expand Blackie's framework to include the Civil War period. This study will also assess how individuals worked to make the world more accessible to them through the theme of mobility. Petitions often mention the use of mobility aids such as wooden legs, crutches, and even horses to help disabled individuals navigate society. Disability history is an often overlooked yet significant historical discipline, and this study would make a large impact on a growing community of historians studying the consequences and memory of the Civil Wars. Despite this, there are very few studies on disability in this period and no monograph. As a result, my thesis will be the only extended piece of work on the experiences of disability in this period. The project will redefine how we understand disabled people's experiences during the seventeenth century and in doing so will advance significantly the growing discussion about the lives of disabled people through history.This study will use a mixed methods approach. It will rely primarily on qualitative thematic analysis; however, it will also use qualitative language analysis and some quantitative financial analysis to contextualise different pension payments. Combining these methods will ensure that this research is as effective as possible in its depiction of disability in the early modern period by approaching the topic from multiple angles creating a comprehensive picture. This study will apply the social model of disability to examples of disability in the era of the Civil Wars. This model describes disability as a social construct; that people with impairments are disabled by features of society such as discrimination, economic and social dependence, inaccessibility, and unemployment. By applying this model, this study will gain a greater insight into how disabled individuals navigated the barriers they faced to participate in society and in doing so, it will assess the medical and religious models of disability they encountered.

1642年至1651年之间的残酷冲突要求该国适应其残疾人人口的大幅增长，因此它需要建立一个更强大的基础设施来支持残疾人的退伍军人和平民。我的论文将解决战后社会如何满足这些残疾人的需求，残疾人如何为自己提倡的方式以及他人如何代表他们代表他们的需求。这项研究将评估内战如何改变十七世​​纪的身体残疾经历。这得到了子公司研究问题的支持，包括：残疾退伍军人如何学会因其障碍而学习世界？政府策略在迎合残疾人的餐饮方面有多有效？内战带来的变化如何影响残疾平民？我们可以从内战的请愿书中了解到有关残疾穷人生活的何种知识？要确定十七世纪身体残疾人的经历，这项研究将集中在三个主要主题上：贫困，工作和流动性。为此，它将使用内战请愿书团队数字化的内战请愿书以及其他消息来源。关于贫困的主题，杰弗里·哈德森（Geoffrey Hudson）确定，随着残疾退伍军人的年龄增长，他们声称支持的方法发生了变化。因此，这项研究将探讨残疾人的生存策略，以协商生命周期贫困和残疾生活。为了探索工作的主题，这项研究将与请愿书的了解相反，以确定残疾如何影响个人参与劳动驱动的社会的能力。丹尼尔·布莱克（Daniel Blackie）强调，有两类的工作限制残疾：职业残疾和普遍残疾。这项研究将扩大黑人的框架，包括内战时期。这项研究还将评估个人如何通过流动性的主题来使世界更容易进入世界。请愿书经常提到使用木腿，拐杖甚至马等流动性辅助工具来帮助残疾人在社会中导航。残疾历史是一门经常被忽视但重要的历史学科，这项研究将对越来越多的历史学家社区产生重大影响，这些历史学家正在研究内战的后果和记忆。尽管如此，在此期间，很少有关于残疾的研究，没有专着。结果，我的论文将是在此期间唯一关于残疾经历的工作。该项目将重新定义我们如何在17世纪理解残疾人的经历，并通过历史来大幅度地对残疾人生活的讨论进行显着发展。这项研究将采用混合的方法方法。它将主要依靠定性主题分析；但是，它还将使用定性语言分析和一些定量财务分析来上下文，以将不同的退休金支付。结合这些方法将确保这项研究在现代早期的残疾描述中尽可能有效，从多个角度接近该主题。这项研究将把残疾的社会模型应用于内战时代的残疾实例。该模型将残疾描述为一种社会结构。有损害的人会被社会的特征（例如歧视，经济和社会依赖性，无法获得性和失业率）所残障。通过采用这种模型，这项研究将对残疾人如何在社会参与社会中面临的障碍进行更深入的了解，并在此过程中评估他们遇到的残疾医学和宗教模型。