This project explores available cultural, social and political texts to map a history of shared understanding of diverse Australians with disability and their close associates and aims to elucidate the social ecology that produced these stories. It uses snippet-stories (or cases) of individuals and groups to construct the bridge between biography and history. This produces a form of blended text that weaves chronicle with more discursive elements than we might expect to find in a narrative history. For more detail about this approach to disability historiography see the ‘Sources’ section of the Appendix.