British Library gives voice to Disability History Month
Monday, December 5th, 2011Disability History Month provides an annual focus for the wider community to develop more positive attitudes towards disabled people and aids better understanding of the barriers disabled people face in society.
In support of this the British Library is making available a new online set of oral history interviews, Disability Voices, which encapsulate the experiences of disabled people through history. The Disability Voices web resource gives a fascinating insight into the lives of some disabled people in the twentieth century and through oral testimonies, the challenges and discrimination, but also triumphs, which disabled people have experienced.
Topics include; an Oral History of People with Cerebral Palsy, Interviews with Deafened People, and An Oral History of British Athletics.
To listen to the interviews click here
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