Disability History Month is supported by many organisations, charities, students, and Unions, ourselves included. The month aims to promote disabled peoples rights and their struggle for equality in the past, present and builds action on what is needed in the future. Disability History month is an annual movement which builds awareness and activity for disabled people. The 2023 Disability History Month national theme focusses on the Experience of Disablement amongst children and young people.
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Ben Purse Ben was an early trailblazer for disability rights, leading a march of blind people and people with visual impairments to Parliament in 1920, which led to an important new law.
Ben Purse
Ben was an early trailblazer for disability rights, leading a march of blind people and people with visual impairments to Parliament in 1920, which led to an important new law.
Rosa May Billinghurst Influential suffragette and wheelchair user, Rosa played an important role in protests and action in the campaign for votes for women.
Rosa May Billinghurst
Influential suffragette and wheelchair user, Rosa played an important role in protests and action in the campaign for votes for women.
Lord Alf Morris As an MP and member of the House of Lords, Alf became a strong disability rights ally after experiencing inequality first-hand when his father returned from the Great War unable to work due to his injuries.
Lord Alf Morris
As an MP and member of the House of Lords, Alf became a strong disability rights ally after experiencing inequality first-hand when his father returned from the Great War unable to work due to his injuries.
Anne Begg Motivated by the challenges she faced to become a teacher, Anne campaigned to become an MP in Parliament to fight for equal opportunities for all, becoming the first ever full-time wheelchair user in the House of Commons.
Anne Begg
Motivated by the challenges she faced to become a teacher, Anne campaigned to become an MP in Parliament to fight for equal opportunities for all, becoming the first ever full-time wheelchair user in the House of Commons.
Baroness Jane Campbell As a young girl, Jane found herself unfairly excluded from mainstream education and wanted to make sure no one was left out again, by first becoming a disability rights activist, and later a member of the House of Lords.
Baroness Jane Campbell
As a young girl, Jane found herself unfairly excluded from mainstream education and wanted to make sure no one was left out again, by first becoming a disability rights activist, and later a member of the House of Lords.
Deborah Williams When Deborah, a performer and artist, established her own company to tell her stories, she became such a success that she was invited into Parliament to share her experience and skills with a select committee.
Deborah Williams
When Deborah, a performer and artist, established her own company to tell her stories, she became such a success that she was invited into Parliament to share her experience and skills with a select committee.
52% of working age disabled people are in employment, compared to 81% of working age non-disabled people.
Disabled people from BAME backgrounds report greater social inequalities compared to disabled people from white backgrounds.
5-7% of disabled people use a wheelchair.
83% of disabled people acquire their health condition during working age.
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