Finding collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people
One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.
Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.
Collections
DISABLED PEOPLE'S DIRECT ACTION PROTEST AT HARRODS PHOTOGRAPH (Photograph)
Disabled People's direct-action network (DAN) has campaigned for equality for disabled people since the early 1990s through hundreds of rallies, passive resistance, and protest. The group achieved considerable success in its campaign for accessible transport and the passage of the Disability Discrimination Act in 1995. The act was the first to protect disabled people from discrimination in employment, services, education, and transport.
