Disability History Snapshots

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I've decided to write a few quick primers to disability history, as I haven't written anything here for a while since I've been working...

How historical buildings and the heritage sector have failed disabled people.

While this pandemic has put a spanner in the works of a lot of academic historical projects, mine included, it has vastly increased the...

How the Black Panthers helped the disability rights movement achieve their biggest goals.

This was originally written for Twitter in the 8 days leading up to Christmas (it was originally going to be the traditional 12 days but...

While the theme for this year's Disability History Month is Leadership, Resistance and Culture, for this post I'm going a slightly...

It is (in the UK anyway) Black History Month, and while I obviously want to mark this very important area of long ignored history, it is...

This post comes to you on the day that it has been announced that here in the UK, we have lost our "measles free" status. This is a very...

This is a bit of a different post, so please let me know what you think of it! I know disability current affairs are missed somewhat by...

Today, May 30th 2019, families and their supporters from all over the country are marching to show support for children and young people...

My schedule this month is all whacked out, what with a late Easter, a trip this week and all the standard disabled/chronic illness lyf...

It's been a long time since I've written about myself from a personal perspective! I think I've remembered how to do it, so if I don't...

Oh how adorable, back in February 2016 when I wrote this I was only coeliac and lactose intolerant and thought that was tricky. How times...

This from January 2016 was the first time I really discussed interactions with the abled, and most of my friends were shocked at the...

This post was originally written and posted on my very old wordpress blog in February 2014 while I was at uni. I was an intermittent...