12.30, Darwin Room, Hamilton Centre Disability Month Poster 2014 Brunel 4th December Speakers: Professor Lorraine DeSouza, ‘Rehabilitation through the wars’ – Lorraine is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Equality and Diversity and Staff Development. Emma Farquharson, Emma is an advanced physiotherapy practitioner…
4th December 2014
4th December 2–3pm
St Fagan’s, Cardiff
4 December 2014, 2–3pm St Fagans National History Museum Explore objects that reveal the psychological and physical impact of the First World War on the health of Welsh soldiers. Location: Castle Adults: Free Booking Essential. Tel: 02920 573424 More…
Disabled century two BBC films about C20th
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/353682.stm War – long associated with giving an impetus to the feminist movement – also played a major part in transforming people’s views of disability. Not only have this century’s two world wars created a large number of disabled people,…
6th December
‘One Last Push’ Screening, Edinburgh
A Disability History Month Scotland Event: This animation tells the story of the disability movement from WWI to the present day, using WWI and disability artifacts and narration by local people. Our locally crafted Memory Box containing these memorabilia will…
6th December
UKDHM Day Conference, London
Day Conference Saturday 6th December 2014, 10am to 4pm Room 3D, Students Central, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY War and Impairment :The Social Consequences of Disablement Speakers:- Neil Faulkner ‘Industrialised slaughter: how the world went mad in 1914’ Roddy Slorach…
8th December 2pm
FDA, London SE1 7NN
Unseen: Working with Non-Visible Disability Monday 8th December 2014 at 2.00pm FDA head office, 8 Leake Street, London, SE1 7NN To celebrate this year’s Disability History Month, the FDA – alongside the CPS’s Disabled Staff Network – will be holding…
1st December
Cambridge at the Meadows Community Centre
DHM 14 Cambridge Easy Read Flyer – Cambridge Disability History Day 2014Civic event to celebrate Disability History Month and International Day of Disabled People. Please see the attached flyer with further information. In summary the event is on: Monday 1st…
11th December
Scapegoat – Katharine Quarmby, Southwark
Thursday 11th December, 3pm to 4.30pm LB Southwark 160 Tooley St, SE1 2TZ, in Unity Kitchen Café, Refreshments provided. 3pm to 4pm Talk, followed by Q&A by Author and Journalist Katharine Quarmby about her book ‘Scapegoat’, which traces the history…