Disabled People’s Activism: Past, Present and Future People’s History MuseumLeft Bank, Manchester M3 3ER This landmark exhibition explores the history of disabled people’s activism and ongoing fight for rights and inclusion. Nothing About Us Without Us has been curated by four community curators,…
Manchester Disability History Rocks! 3rd December 2018, 12-4.30pm
Manchester Disability History Rocks! 3rd December 2018, 12-4.30pm FREE Public drop in Event, Manchester Central Library, ground floor, performance space A showcase of music and creativity by disabled artists and activists from Manchester to celebrate International Day…
Manchester City Council’s Disabled Staff Group
UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) 2016 event hosted by Manchester City Council’s Disabled Staff Group At City Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester On Wednesday 30th November 2016 The theme for the event is “Disability and Language” The event will begin…
All month
Manchester Events
Manchester UKDHM Events War and Impairment: The Social Consequences of Disablement, focusing on World War 1. Manchester City Council, led by its Disabled Staff Group, marks UK Disability History Month with a series of free events linked to this year’s…
1st December 2014
Snapshot on Disability, Manchester
Snapshot on Disability 1 December 2014 12.30-1.30 Manchester People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER Go behind the scenes and delve into our unique photo collections Did you know the museum holds an archive of over 95,000 photographs?…
Until 22nd February 2015
Manchester The Sensory War
Saturday 11 October 2014 – Sunday 22 February 2015 Manchester Art Gallery Mosley Street Manchester M2 3JL The Sensory War 1914-2014 This major group exhibition marking the Centenary of the First World War explores how artists have communicated the impact…
Changing Thinking: Changing Outcomes
‘The Nothing About Us Without Us exhibition is a triumph of bringing together the often overlooked and ignored struggles of disabled people to the wider public. Shaped around key ideas of the UK Disabled People’s Movement, which over the last 60 years,…
Health and well being presentation for Unite
Talk by Richard Rieser, Coordinator UK Disability History Month to Unite London and SE Region Conference on 3rd December 2022 We started looking at the Health and Well Being of Disabled People as this year’s theme and the impact Covid…
Disability & Birmingham: A History
Article by Philippa Webley-EvansLibrary Services Assistant at The Library of Birmingham. Content Warning: This text contains derogatory language that was used at the time to describe/explain Disability to maintain historical accuracy. I have used the term Disabled people rather than…
Historian Dr Rosemund Oates on life for disabled people in the early modern period
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021