Hackney Disability Back Up will be marking this day here in Hackney with an event at the Hackney Museum. The museum staff will give a guided tour of the museum of the Strike A Pose exhibition and there will be…
3rd December
3rd December and all month
Norfolk
Equal Lives and Disability History Month 22 November – 22 December including the International Day of Disabled People which is on 3rd December 2014 This year the theme for Disability History Month is War and Impairment: The Social Consequence of…
3rd December
Southwark Council
Wednesday 3rd December, 12pm to 2.30pm. LB Southwark 160 Tooley St, SE1 2TZ, in the Atrium. The Southwark Equality and Diversity Group Present Performances to Celebrate International Day of Person’s with a Disability and UK Disability History Month: Performance Mind…
You Tube UKDHM films
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Did shell shock make us serious about mental health?
A web piece by BBC looking into how attitudes to veteran’s mental health has changed since 1917. See it here.
The untold stories of deaf people in WWI
An entry on the BBC Ouch blog on the fates of deaf ex-soldiers. When the war broke out, sentries were deployed across the country and security was tightened. But many deaf people were unaware of the new rules … and paid…
4th December 2014
Brunel University London celebrates UK Disability History Month
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 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
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…