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.

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YELLOW PROTEST FLYER (Flyer/Poster)

1994

E2024.0015.2

A yellow A4 flyer which reads 'Why We Are Angry - British Rail's Garden is an Insult!'. The flyer was made by DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) to be distributed during their Rights not Roses protest at Leeds Station, March 1994. The flyer asks that the public 'support our action even if your journey...

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Rights information: Donor: Gill Crawford Intellectual property: DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) Exhibiting museum: National Railway Museum"

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A yellow A4 flyer which reads 'Why We Are Angry - British Rail's Garden is an Insult!'. The flyer was made by DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) to be distributed during their Rights not Roses protest at Leeds Station, March 1994. The flyer asks that the public 'support our action even if your journey has been disrupted this once' and make the protest even more effective by 'using the goods lift rather than the stairs... [to] bring home to BR [British Rail] how unsuitable and inaccessible their facilities are'.

The 'Rights Not Roses' protest was in response to the opening of a garden at Leeds Station. DAN were protesting against the use of £40,000 funding to create this garden, while numerous platforms at the station were still inaccessible to disabled people, disabled passengers had to use the goods lift, and often had to travel in the guards vans of trains. Members of DAN disrupted the opening of the garden, and handcuffed themselves to a scheduled train due to depart Leeds for London.

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