UK Disability History Month

UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) is an annual event that highlights the history and achievements of disabled people, especially those who have fought for equality and human rights. The month-long campaign encourages schools, workplaces, and communities to engage in conversations about disability rights, accessibility, and representation. It also serves as an opportunity to reflect on the progress made for disability rights and to act on what we can do to support disability equality in the present.

Disability, Life and Death

The theme for UK Disability History Month 2025 is "Disability, Life and Death," inviting us to explore how society values the lives of disabled people and to renew our commitment to creating a more accessible, inclusive world for all.

The key purpose of the month is to raise awareness of the unequal position of disabled people in society and to advocate disability equality; to develop an understanding of the historical roots of this inequality; to highlight the significance of disabled people’s struggles for equality and inclusion and the ‘social model’ of disability; to publicise and argue for the implementation of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities and the Equalities Act (2010).

Dr Nazlin Bhimani: Eugenics and the Legacy of the Exclusion of the Disabled in British Education

A short documentary marking 80 years from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths.