Radio programme: Mat Fraser assesses how far we’ve come with accessibility and inclusivity, particularly in the last two decades, and considers what’s stopping us from going further. Money, power, politics, legislation and technology all play their part, but what about social attitudes towards disability?
Leadership and Resistance Videos
New Videos for UKDHM 2019 Barbara Lisicki interview Baroness Jane Campbell interview Diana Rose – The Mental Health System and Resistance Micheline Mason and Christine Wilson on the wider political movement Jaysaree Kalathil – Black and Ethnic Minority Survivor Research…
Leadership and Resistance Posters
For UKDHM 2019 we have produced a series of posters celebrating figures and groups significant to the Disability Rights Movement. Click the links below to download and print them out. Greta Thunberg poster Word document Micheline Mason poster Word document…
The history of learning disability, 1900 to the present day
This new online resource comprises a bank of educational activities from Year 5 through to Year 13 on the history of learning disability. It is relevant to a wide range of subject areas, for both mainstream and special educational provision. Many of the activities area also suitable for adults with learning disabilities who are interested in history. The activities cover various aspects of learning disability history, from the early 20th century to the present day, spanning life in institutions and in the community. The activities also engage with contemporary issues of equality, rights, discrimination, disablist language and bullying.
Resources for use with classes in schools and colleges
A large number of activities to bring different aspects of disability history into the curriculum focussing on the way disabled people were treated from 1000 AD to the present day.
Bobby Farrell- ‘the one legged music hall singer’ 1912-2010?
Bobby Farrell lost one leg in an accident in his native Glasgow trick or treating on Hallowe’en 1921 when he was 9. Three years later, after his mother died, he ran away from home, driven out by his drunken father.…
National Survey calls on disabled community to share experiences of access to music services
National Survey calls on disabled community to share experiences of access to music services Hello, I work for Creative United on the Take it away scheme, which offers interest-free loans for musical instruments, equipment, software and tuition, funded by Arts…
2018 Launch Event
Monday 19th November 2018, Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Parliament George McKay Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia Tinukeh Jonah sings If You Leave Kiri Tunks President National Education Union John Kelly Drake Music, performs two songs…
Blind Willie Johnson (1897- 1945) American Blues and Gospel Singer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist. His landmark recordings completed between 1927 and 1930—thirty songs in total—display a combination of powerful…
Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson (1893 –1929) American blues and gospel singer
Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s and has been called the “Father…