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Category:2024: Disability Livelihood and Employment

UKDHM 2024 Launch Event

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 20, 2024
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
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Disability History resources at the Cadbury Research Library

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
This is a guide to help uncover historical records about disability, detailing material held at the Cadbury Research Library.
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Snowdon Trust: Integrating Disabled People into Higher Education

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
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.
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Unpacking the Disability Employment Gap

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
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.
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Richard Burton Archives

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
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.
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Reading list on Disability and Industrial Society by David Turner

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
Academic papers focussing on the presence of disability in British industrial society.
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Unwritten Histories of Disabled Workers

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
Article by Gill Crawshaw in History Workshop. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-history/unwritten-histories-of-disabled-workers
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Disability, Rehabilitation and Work

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
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.
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Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
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.
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Disability Rights UK

Posted on: November 18, 2024 Last updated on: November 18, 2024
Links to organisations giving advice on benefits, care and debt
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