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For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, igrance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as 'one of the most desperate of human calamities'. A few schools for deaf children had been founded from the 1780s but it was only in the early decades of the 19th century that philanthropists, evangelists and the deaf themselves began to create institutions to offer spiritual and temporal care for the deaf adults of the great cities of the industrial revolution. This classic example of Victorian charity has received little detailed research. Nick Waite discovered that his own great great grandparents Stephenson had neither hearing r speech; in the accepted language of their day they were 'deaf and dumb'. His story brings together social, local and family history to show how care for Sheffield's profoundly deaf developed from the mid-19th century to the present day, together with the three generations of the family who ran the Sheffield Deaf and Dumb Institute from 1871 until it closed in 1960. As in many areas of social reform over the last two centuries, political involvement led to clashes of interest and values, and the Sheffield story illustrates perfectly the gradual and sometimes rocky progress from Victorian philanthropy to the Welfare State. Alone in a Silent World will appeal to those who are interested in the history of care for disadvantaged mirities, specifically the deaf, as well as those who are part of the deaf community, and those with an interest in local history.

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Troubador Publishing
ISBN-10
1785891375
ISBN-13
9781785891373
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221354475

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Author
Nick Waite
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Local History, Names & Genealogy
Type
Textbook

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Place of Publication
Leicester
Author Biography
Former solicitor Nick Waite has two sons and five grandchildren and lives in Sheffield, as have at least four generations of his family. He read history at Oxford; after graduation in 1961 he spent seven years in academic life before switching to law. Family history research was delayed until retirement; four years work resulted in Alone in a Silent World, the story of ninety years of welfare work for the profoundly deaf by three generations of the family.
Date of Publication
28/09/2016
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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