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…
Jason Arday – Facing Adversity with a Grin
The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist
Judith “Judy” Heumann—widely regarded as “the mother” of the disability rights movement—passed away in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of March 4, 2023. Judy was at the forefront of major disability rights demonstrations, helped spearhead the passage of disability rights…
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,…
UKDHM 2023
Our theme for 2023 is: Disability, Children and Youth It runs from 16th November to 16th December 2023.
Early Day Motion 561
EDM (Early Day Motion) 561: tabled on 09 November 2022 https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60273 Motion text That this House recognises that 16 November to 16 December is Disability History Month which is now in its thirteenth year of being celebrated in the United Kingdom and…
Sussex to mark Disability History Month with purple flag
To mark UKDHM the Disability flag will be flying from Sussex House over the coming weeks. David Ruebain, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Culture, Equality and Inclusion says, “I am delighted that we will be marking Disability History Month. Disabled people have come…
UKDHM 2022 Launch Event
A playlist of the individual contributions (without sign language interpretation) is available here:
Austerity is a damaging choice
Mortality rates, and related indicators such as life expectancy, are important markers of the overall health of a population. Since around 2012, profound and deeply concerning changes to these indicators have been seen in Scotland, and across the UK: a…