Get Your MP to sign! https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59089 EDM (Early Day Motion) 607: tabled on 01 November 2021 Tabled in the 2021-22 session. Motion text That this House recognises 18 November to 18 December is Disability History Month which is now in its…
Interview with UKDHM founder
In this podcast Richard talks us through Disability History Month 2020 and how it all began. Sparked partly by the election of a conservative government which threatened the rights of disabled people, and a conversation in which the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month asked why disabled people didn’t have their own month too, Richard began to raise support.
In this podcast we talk activism, lack of ally-ship, BLM, ableism and how access is still a major barrier for disabled people in Britain.
Disability Oppression 101 with Ellen Morrison & Ellen Clifford
As part of Disability History Month 2020 TWT and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) teamed up to create this introduction to disability oppression video. In it DPAC activist and Labour NEC member Ellen Morrison speaks to author and DPAC activist…
Secondary / KS3 & KS4
Resources and activities for secondary students
Primary / KS2
Resources to help develop an understanding of disability and promote inclusion in Key Stage 2
Peg Leg Howell 1888 1966
Peg Leg Howell 1888 1966 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell (March 5, 1888 – August 11, 1966), was an African-American blues singer and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later…
It’s Time to Confront the Erasure of Disability in Hip-Hop
It’s Time to Confront the Erasure of Disability in Hip-Hop (Above: Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen”, 2014) “When I was little…I had got into an accident and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes,” rapper Fetty…
Marc Quinn, 1964–
Marc Quinn, a contemporary artist and sculpture, works arises from a deep fascination with existence. The materials are both form and content in which he uses art history to investigate and expand and broaden our thinking about the essence of…
Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
Lord Byron by Ellen Castelow ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’. That is how Lady Caroline Lamb described her lover George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron and one of the greatest Romantic poets in English literature. As famous for his scandalous…
Early Graphic Illustration, Comic Strips and Disability
The history of printing goes back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times. The use of round seals for rolling an impression into clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BCE, they feature…