https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01xnm A Normal Need 10 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yh6n9 The Mental Illness Metaphor https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09thl6z Going Forward https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k4zwt Dementia Rights https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jf76n The Power of Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hqm3c Sic Transport- Why we should not wallow in the past https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v36ks Independence Wheelchair User Tom Shakespeare on…
Liverpool The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places now open Jan 2018- April 2018
The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places now open Dear all, The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places, has now opened at the Museum of Liverpool. This is the second of our three exhibitions about the lives of deaf and…
UK Disability History Month 2017 Postscript
This years theme of Visual Art and Disability has been a great success. We produced and distributed 2,300 copies of the 12 page Broadsheet. http://ukdhm.org/2017-broadsheet/ We had a 2 page article in Septembers issue of the Teacher that goes to…
Young, disabled and LGBT+
Young, disabled and LGBT+ Based on new research by British Academy award holder Alex Toft and colleagues at Coventry University, we look at the challenges young disabled LGBT+ people face growing up in Britain today. Join for an evening of…
Mike Oliver delivers a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities
BY JOHN PRING ON NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Listen One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first defined…
St Pauls’s Byatt Road, Stoke on Trent – Art Competition Winners
St Paul’s remove the barriers to disability through art The competition was idea of Nursery Teacher Mrs Turton who was finding out about the UK Disability History Month which started yesterday. She held a gallery to display the art work…
Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds 1960-
‘Having four fingers and 13 toes never stopped me doing what I love’: Thalidomide campaigner opens up on her inspirational battle against the odds Cardiff University’s first disabled student Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds chronicles her struggle for equality – and life as…
Celebrating the artistic history of people with disabilities – Shakira Dyer
> Celebrating the artistic history of people with disabilities Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell speaking at a DHM event in Portcullis House, Westminster Shakira Dyer reports on Disability History Month 2017 and its focus on the arts UK Disability History Month (DHM) has existed…
Disabled photographer, Kev Howard’s exhibition d-FORMED
Saltburn-based Kev Howard’s social documentary and observational photography has reached global audiences for more than a decade. He’s photographed hundreds of bands, poets, artists and demonstrations in that time – with a photo of Benjamin Zephaniah appearing in The Independent,…
‘Disorder’s Avatar’? Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Disability Representation
‘Disorder’s Avatar’? Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Disability Representation 23 November 17:00 Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford Dr Clare Barker (University of Leeds) The English Faculty is pleased to host a special lecture to mark…