Micheline Mason David Turner Gill Crawshaw Our World of Work Yinka Shonibare https://www.wikiart.org/en/yinka-shonibare Colleen Johnson Martyn Gwyther Natasha Hirst
Disability History resources at the Cadbury Research Library
This is a guide to help uncover historical records about disability, detailing material held at the Cadbury Research Library.
Snowdon Trust: Integrating Disabled People into Higher Education
Lord Snowdon was asked to chair a cross-party parliamentary working group on Integration of the Disabled. In 1976 they produced the report “Integrating the Disabled”, which led to Lord Snowdon founding the Snowdon Trust in 1981.
Unpacking the Disability Employment Gap
Unpacking the Disability Employment Gap is a 3-year project funded by the Nuffield Foundation to investigate the gap in employment between disabled and non-disabled people in the UK.
Richard Burton Archives
Researchers for the Disability and Industrial Society project explored the South Wales Coalfield Collection as part of the collaborative project which investigated industrial injuries and diseases in three British coalfields between 1780 and 1948.
Reading list on Disability and Industrial Society by David Turner
Academic papers focussing on the presence of disability in British industrial society.
Unwritten Histories of Disabled Workers
Article by Gill Crawshaw in History Workshop. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-history/unwritten-histories-of-disabled-workers
Disability, Rehabilitation and Work
Resource from Historic England which explains how work became a key element of the rehabilitation process for people with disabilities after the Second World War. As well as promoting their recovery, being able to work meant that they would be less dependent on the state.
Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues
A new study by historian Professor Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College) argues that loud voices in the 20th-century eugenics movement have hidden a much bigger picture of inclusion in British workplaces that puts today’s low rates to shame.
Disability Rights UK
Links to organisations giving advice on benefits, care and debt