A show criticised for "trivialising" disability by dissecting a model of "the Elephant Man" Joseph Merrick has come under ... was called a "modern-day freak show" by disability campaigners.

The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit ...

The unmarked grave of Joseph ... as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed. Merrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak ...

His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick ... There we stood. The freak. John Merrick, as vulnerable as you could be.” Anthony Hopkins in The Elephant Man The major difficulty ...