This year’s UK Disability History Month is 16th November – 16th December 2023. The theme for 2023 is Disability, Children and Youth. UKDHM encourages engagement not only with the history of disabled children and young people but with what is needed for the future, with a heavy focus on a Social Model/Human rights approach.
To mark Disability History Month the Social Science Library has created a book display to highlight some of the many relevant books, both physical and electronic, we have in our collection. You can find the display around the corner from our issue desk.
The ORLO reading list of the titles on display, as well as other related titles we hold at the Social Science Library is only a small selection of Disability History related resources available.
A new LibGuide for Disability History resources has also just been launched. This fully accessible LibGuide was created by a Bodleian Library 2022-2023 Graduate Trainee with additional online resources sourced during a Hackathon!
There is also a reading list on understanding disability on ORLO which was created by a joint team of staff across the Bodleian Libraries, College Libraries and the Oxford Union Library. It covers a range of topics from ‘Disability and the Law’ to ‘Neurodivergence’.
If you think we’re missing a relevant disability history title from our collections then let us know at ssl@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
