REPORT BACK DISABILITY HISTORY: LOOKING FORWARD TO A BETTER PAST?,

marked that ‘Disability is everywhere in History, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent from the histories we write’.1 Baynton’s com-ments were part of a call for a ‘new dis-ability history ’ which would seek to analyse critically the ways in which past societies have given meaning to im-pairment and to give voice to the experi-ences of disabled people customarily marginalized or neglected in conven-tional histories. Founded in 2007 and now boasting around eighty members, the Disability History Group provides a focus for new research in the UK and further afield. In June 2010 it hel