The poor law, the workhouse and the construction of ablebodiedness

Samantha Williams Confabulating with Prof. Samantha K. Williams She undertook her BA (Hons) in History at Lancaster, where she gained her passion for social history and the history of poverty, medicine and disease. She then moved to Oxford for an MSc in Economic and Social History, with a social history of medicine pathway at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. Another move to Cambridge meant that she studied for her PhD at the inspiring Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, where she now sits on the management committee. After a teaching job at Goldsmith's, University of London, she returned to Cambridge and to the Institute of Continuing Education (Madingley Hall) and Girton College. She enjoys teaching both undergraduates at Girton and older students at Madingley Hall. She is Course Director for the MSt (part-time) in History.