Great to see lots of organisations embracing UKDHM 2024. Links below: https://www.healthwatchwalthamforest.co.uk/event/2024-11-14/uk-disability-history-month https://www.weareincludability.co.uk/event/uk-disability-history-month-2024 https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/disability-history-month-2024 https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=32024 https://www.instagram.com/nottswomenscent/p/DCZ5d5fTYkW/?img_index=1 https://www.jobskin.co.uk/uk-disability-history-month-2024 https://happymind.co/inclusion-calendar/disability-history-month-uk https://www.usdaw.org.uk/member-support/help-and-advice/equalities/disability/disability-history-month https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?q=disability+history+month&c=244&r=parent
Coverage on Disability Arts Online
https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/news/uk-disability-history-month-2024-disability-livelihood-and-employment 13 November 2024 UK Disability History Month, created in 2010, is an annual event, which this year runs from 14th November to 20th December 2024 with a theme of Disability, Livelihood and Employment. The core purpose of UK Disability…
Micheline Mason and the Struggle for Inclusive Education and Disability Rights
Micheline Mason died of a stroke on Saturday 7th September 2024. Micheline was 74, a major leader in the Disability Movement and a brilliant thinker, taking our Movement forward, especially the struggle for Inclusive Education, in a series of quantum…
Disability News Service coverage of UKDHM
Read John Pring’s report from the launch of UKDHM 2023 Full article here.
UKDHM Coverage on ITV News
This ITV News report discusses why many schools are still not celebrating Disability History Month and what can be done.
NSC Beyond Boundaries Essay Competition
Disability Rights UK Celebrating UKDHM
Disability History Month is taking place from November 16th to December 16th so at Disability Rights UK, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back on some of our favourite parts of Disability history from across our movement. Below,…
Special Needs Jungle article on UKDHM
Read the article at the link below: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/disability-history-month-2023-focusing-disability-childhood-youth-inclusion-backwards/
You’re so Amazing illustrates that societal ableism is more than child’s play
Disabled husband and wife James and Lucy Catchpole team up with illustrator Karen George on new picture book You’re So Amazing, a sequel to the critically acclaimed What Happened To You? Kate Lovell reviews on Disability Arts
Disability, Childhood and Youth – Pre-launch event
As an introduction to UKDHM 2023 on the theme of ‘Disability Childhood and Youth’, we held a face-to-face launch of these books with Micheline Mason and several other disabled speakers to recount their experiences and the need for change. See…