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Central Library Showcase Exhibition, October 2024 - January 2025
The Disabled People’s Archive held an exhibition at Manchester Central Library in the display cases on the ground floor near the café. This was to celebrate UK Disability History Month and to showcase all the hard work we have done in the past few years on the project. We have 14 cases labelled A, B, C, D, E, F, G,...
Celebrating UPIAS's 50th Anniversary
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS), we have made a number of formerly out-of-print articles written by UPIAS members digitally available. Each document has its own post in the News section of this website, but this pages lists and links to all of them. About the Series: The Union of the Physically...
A Tribute to Maggie Davis
At GMCDP and the Disabled People's Archive we were greatly saddened to hear of the recent death of Maggie Davis (also known as Maggie Hines) in March 2024. Maggie, along with her partner Ken Davis, was a member of UPIAS and a co-founder of Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People (DCDP) and Derbyshire Centre for Integrated (later Inclusive) Living (DCIL). She...
A Tribute to Joe Whittaker
Joe Whittaker, a longstanding member of GMCDP and activist for equality and inclusion for disabled people, particularly in the field of education, died in March 2023. For more about Joe, see this post on GMCDP's website and this article by Richard Rieser in 'Inclusion Now', the magazine of the Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE), which Joe was...
Block Telethon: A Summary by Kirstie Stage
The Block Telethon protests of 1990 and 1992 marked two pivotal points in British disability activism. Led by disabled people, including groups such as Rights Not Charity, Block Telethon was a campaign against the charity fundraiser Telethon. The television programme, which was initially launched by Thames Television in London, sought to raise millions of pounds for major disability charities...
Article: Ken Lumb - Telethon, Connecting the Means to the Ends (1992)
Celebrating UPIAS's 50th Anniversary: Part 4
Article: 'Rights or Charity, The Future of Welfare' by Ken Davis (1993)
Celebrating UPIAS’s 50th Anniversary: Part 3
Article: ‘The Politics of Independent Living – Keeping the Movement Radical’ by Ken Davis (1984)
Celebrating UPIAS’s 50th Anniversary: Part 2