Booklets, Books and Articles
A Brief History of Disabled People’s Self-Organisation
A booklet produced in 2013 by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.
A Brief History of Disabled People's Self-Organisation Standard Print PDF
A Brief History of Disabled People's Self-Organisation Text only
No Limits: The Disabled People’s Movement - A Radical History, by Judy Hunt, 2019
Download 12 point or 18 point copy from the GMCDP website. Braille and audio copies available for loan.
https://gmcdp.com/no-limits
Articles and book chapters available online
Chapter 2 'A Brief History of Discrimination and Disabled People' in the book Disabled People in Britain and discrimination: A Case For
Anti- Discrimination Legislation, by Colin Barnes (1991).
https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/library/Barnes-disabled-people-and-discrim-ch2.pdf
The chapter 'Growing Pains - Disability Politics: The Journey Explained and Described' by Jane Campbell. Chapter 5 In the book Disability Studies: Past Present and Future, edited by Len Barton and Mike Oliver (1997); Leeds: The Disability Press, pp. 78
https://www.independentliving.org/docs6/campbell1996.html
'The Place of Le Court Residents in the History of the Disability Movement in England' by Phillip Mason
https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/library/Mason-le-court-philip-mason.pdf
The Independent Living Movement in the UK, by John Evans (2003). This gives an excellent history of the Independent Living Movement until 2003.
https://www.independentliving.org/docs6/evans2003.html