As #DisabilityHistoryMonth ends, Unite honours disabled members across BAEM, LGBT+, women, carers, young & retired. We pledge to fight for equality every day. #UniteSolidarity #Inclusion #DisabilityJustice
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#ICYMI yesterday the #Railway200 blog was updated with a piece for #DisabilityHistoryMonth.
Written by Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike, it looks at where we can find railway workers with disabilities in the past (hint: lots of places!):
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Today is the final day of 2025's #DisabilityHistoryMonth!
It's an important means of focusing attention on the lives of people with disabilities in the past - including, for us, in the #Railway200 year, on the railways.
Read more here:
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#ICYMI our new blog post looks at level crossing keeper Margaret Hamer's accident in #Wales in 1923.
It thinks particularly about #DisabilityHistory; today is the final day of 2025's #DisabilityHistoryMonth.
#Railway200
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A photo of a young musician playing flute at a NOYO rehearsal. Text reads "Bethan's guide to Disability History Month 20 November 20 December 2025".
An infographic about the history of Disability History month.
A musician focus on pioneering disabled musician Paul Wittgenstein.
To mark the end of Disability History Month, National Open Youth Orchestra musician Bethan (flute and harp) wanted to share a bit about the history of the month, and highlight a pioneering disabled musician with a NOYO connection!
#InclusiveMusic #Wittgenstein #DisabilityHistoryMonth #Accessibility
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Mustard yellow graphic of a post-it note with text on the note that reads, ‘Disability inclusion isn’t just a ‘nice to have’, it’s essential for people, performance, and progress.’
As Disability History Month ends, here’s a reminder:
Disability inclusion isn’t just a “nice-to-have”. It’s a legal, moral, and business-critical requirement.
We’re here to help! Simply email us at hello@patchworkhub.org to find out how.
#DisabilityInclusion #PatchworkHub #DisabilityHistoryMonth
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🚨NEW BLOG POST!🚨
For #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we look at Margaret Hamer & her life-changing injuries at Cerist, #Montgomeryshire, #Wales, in 1923.
Her family connections were key to the story - & overall it allows us to ask important questions:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/margaret-ham...
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Pleased to see this #Railway200 blog out, for #DisabilityHistoryMonth!
Written by Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike (of @uophistory.bsky.social), it shows how railway workers with disabilities have long played a part in the rail industry:
railway200.co.uk/celebrating-...
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UK Disability History Month is almost over. As the winter solstice draws close, here's some thoughts on my wintering. What do you do in these darker days? #writer #disabilityhistorymonth #storiestotell #whatnext #wintersolstice #longestnight #solstice
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A collection of disability history book covers available on Libby and OverDrive. Text reads: 'Discover digital disability history titles with Libby and OverDrive. Free for OU students and staff'.
Celebrate disability history and lived experience with our Disability History Collection on Libby and OverDrive.
Explore eBooks and audiobooks on disability rights, activism, culture and inclusion - free to access with your OU login 👉 https://ow.ly/UzNk50XLFKq
#DisabilityHistoryMonth
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It's particularly fitting the article is out during #DisabilityHistoryMonth.
One of the key people we look at, showing the potential of exploring individual lives, is Thomas Manners.
Thomas was disabled at work in 1905 & remained with the rail industry until retirement in 1932.
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Delighted to see my work on #accessibility featured by @sspatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social as part of #DisabilityHistoryMonth.
Too often, accessibility is treated as an afterthought. Yet it is not an optional extra, but a precondition for #equality and #HumanRights.
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A slide in TPT navy blue brand colours, with a crisp modern navy font on a white background. Headline and text reads, Back to 2025. The legacy of the DDA lives on in the Equality Act 2010, neither are perfect and there is still a persistent gap between the law and people's everyday experience.
A slide in TPT navy blue brand colours, with a crisp modern navy font on a white background. Headline and text reads, Back to 2025. Blind and partially sighted people continue to face inaccessible recruitment, delays to adjustments, and workplace systems that weren't designed with us in mind.
A slide in TPT navy blue brand colours, with a crisp modern navy font on a white background. Headline and bulleted list reads, How Employers can Avoid Repeating History. Make recruitment accessible, offer adjustments upfront, use accessible tech and training, create clear progression routes, co-design policies with disabled staff.
A slide in TPT navy blue brand colours, with a crisp modern navy font on a white background. Headline and text reads, Learn more at pocklington.org.uk/employment We provide programmes, support and guidance for employers wanting to create accessible workplaces for blind and partially sighted employees.
Fast forward to 2025 and the legacy lives on through the Equality Act, but the gap between the law and everyday experience is still far too wide.
Learn what employers can do today to avoid repeating history. https://ow.ly/TUTN50XGP1z
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #Employment #Blindness
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This #DisabilityHistoryMonth we're celebrating Amanda Cachia's recent book.
'Hospital aesthetics' presents a different perspective on disabled bodies, aiming to undo the social and cultural impacts hospitals have had on disabled patients.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187864/
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On this final full week before Christmas, and just in time for the end of #DisabilityHistoryMonth, why not read my interview with Armineh and Liz on how ableism presents itself in the HE sector, and how we've collectively and individually navigated it as disabled people.
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A large crowd of figures stood in the foreground of the photograph – the majority wearing top hats and overcoats. A police officer on the far right of the crowd. A non-descript brick building in the background with an entrance on the far right of the photograph.
Last Post #DisabilityHistoryMonth is Hollymoor Hospital, built as an annexe to Rubery Hospital and opened by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, May 1905. Commandeered as a military psychiatric hospital in WW2, it closed in 1994. theironroom.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/m... Ref – WK/R4/196 #LibraryofBham
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#ICYMI our new blog post is for #DisabilityHistoryMonth!
#Railway200
We look at William Parry's life story. Disabled in a 1907 accident at #Bargoed, #Wales, he returned to railway work in a new role:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/disabled-rai...
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The 3.5 metres high sculpture, Alison Lapper Pregnant, was made by Marc Quinn for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square where it sat from 2005 until 2007.
Read more about 'Alison Lapper Pregnant' by Dr. Janis Lomas on the blog.
womenshistorynetwork.org/alison-lappe...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth
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Born #OnThisDay in 1863 was astronomer Annie Jump Cannon. Cannon, who lost most of her hearing early in life, was one of the Harvard Computers, and her work was vital to the modern classification of stars. She classified around 350,000 stars during her career. #WomenInSTEM #DisabilityHistoryMonth
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This #DisabilityHistoryMonth we've been thinking about myths around sex, relationships and disability - disabled people can't have sex, they don't want sex and they're burdens in relationships. None of this is true!
What myths have you heard of and how do you combat them?
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Today’s #DisabilityHistoryMonth #TitleOfTheDay - 'Funny business: Disability, humour, and performance in theatre and drag spaces '
Available #OpenAccess at orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
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#TeitlYDiwrnod #DisabilityHistoryMonth heddiw - 'Funny business: Disability, humour, and performance in theatre and drag spaces'
Ar gael #MynediadAgored gan orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
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NEW BLOG POST!
For #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we look at where disabled railway workers appear in our newest data release, via William Parry's life story.
Disabled in a 1907 accident at #Bargoed, #Wales, he returned to railway work in a new role:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/disabled-rai...
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Delighted that or #DisabilityHistoryMonth resource is available to download from Teachwire! This free sample chapter from 40 Ways to Diversify the History Curriculum by Elena Stevens uses the case of Peter the Wild Boy to examine perceptions of disability in the eighteenth century: buff.ly/99FfcYy
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A black and white photograph of a man with no legs below the knees, stood in the doorway of C Greaves shop looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a white shirt, waist coat and dark trousers. To the left of the photograph are two small children wearing white pinafores.
This is a photograph of John Williamson in around 1930, standing outside Greaves' shop. We think the image was taken in Dronfield. John lost both his legs when he fell under a train.
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #1930s
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Joined @unitetheunion.bsky.social Cymru in Cardiff for #DisabilityHistoryMonth. Dan Smith gave an incredible talk on dyslexia, ADHD and neurodiversity. As someone with dyslexia and colour blindness, I know how often invisible disabilities are misunderstood.This is what real solidarity looks like.
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🌱 The Wall and the Wild is a powerful classroom read for exploring inclusion, difference & growth.
Through Ana’s story, pupils learn to value what doesn’t “fit,” embrace diversity, and look beyond the wall to understand others.
A brilliant pick for #DisabilityHistoryMonth 💛
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On #IDPD, and as part of #DisabilityHistoryMonth our research summary blogs have revisited a piece of autism research history that continues to shape our thinking about research today. The enduring legacy of ‘A Future Made Together’:
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Please join us on Zoom at 2pm today for the premiere of All the small things: a film and discussion for International Day of Disabled People. Free.
To book your ticket, go to:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-the-small-things-t...
#DisabilityHistoryMonth
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Disabled young people and those with SEN/SEND are far more likely to face bullying - including online.
But it doesn’t have to stay this way. 💛
Learn how we can create safer, more inclusive environments for every young person: bit.ly/3M82CN7
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #IDPWD
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