What's on for Disability History Month 2025

We encourage you to organise your own events for DHM! However when doing so remember to consider how to make the event accessible to people with disabilities

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UK Disability History Month: More information

LSE is proud to be observing UK Disability History Month (DHM). DHM is an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history and continued fight for equality and human rights for disabled people in the UK.

This year, DHM is running from 16 November to 16 December.

The EDI Team has collaborated with internal and external partners to collate a programme of events and activities for UKDHM at LSE, which we are honoured to present below:

Disability History Month 2025 Events Calendar

Location: Hall-Carpenter Room, Saw Swee Hock Building

Do you enjoy discovering new books or sharing your favourite reads with others? Join us for a special Disability History Month Book Club where we’ll be discussing our favourite books by disabled authors or stories that explore disability themes and experiences.

There’s no need to read anything in advance – this will be an informal and friendly session to chat about books you’ve loved and would recommend to others, whether fiction or non-fiction. If you’d like, you can also bring along a book to show or swap with colleagues.

How to join:
There is no need to register in advance, you are very welcome to drop in at any time between 12.00 and 1.00pm.

For questions or comments, please contact StaffWellbeing@lse.ac.uk.

Location: LSE Library Gallery

Join us to have a look into the archive!

Archives on display will include materials of suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst, papers from the Maternity Alliance Disability Working Group (now Maternity Action, maternity rights charity), GEMMA newsletters, Gay Men's Disabled Group newsletters, the Disablement Income Group (DIG) and more!

What to expect:

Interpretation about the archives for you to learn more about what you see
Staff nearby for chats about the archives or to answer your questions about using archives in teaching, research, creative practice or personal interest.
At 5pm, an opportunity for a short behind-the-scenes tour of the stores for a general introduction to the collections. *limited to 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis

Book a place to register your interest and receive reminders about the day or just drop in and stay as long as you like!

Book a place here

....with more to come!

Disability History Month resources from the LSE Library

This fantastic page contains links to free resources; and LSE archives and databases. (Note that the page may need a minute to load)

There are specific LSE resources in a section on Alf Morris. The LSE holds the archive of his work as an MP legislating for disability rights. You can also see links to databases where you can find journal articles and government papers on the topic.

Share your recommended reads for Disability History Month 2025

LSE Review of Books is putting together another community reading list, this time for UK Disability History Month (20 November - 20 December 2025).

They're looking for your recommendations of books about disability and neurodiversity, the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people and books by disabled and neurodiverse authors.

They'd love your input - to contribute email lsereviewofbooks@lse.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 14 November with the book title, author and edition along with your name and a short note on why you're recommending it. Selections of fiction, nonfiction and other genres are welcome!

LSE Manager Forum: Demystifying Disability in the Workplace

Do you have line management responsibilities at LSE?

The new monthly online LSE Manager Forum: Demystifying Disability in the Workplace are for LSE managers to come and share their experiences, tips and good practice in relation to supporting disabled staff. The forums are also a place to talk about the challenges associated with navigating systems and processes such as Occupational Health and Access to Work.

Every month, themes attributed to each session will provide a focus for discussion and managers are encouraged to bring any themes they would like to discuss. In 2025, sessions will be themed around the topics below.

Upcoming themes:

Reasonable Adjustments
Mental Health
Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Further details with information for all upcoming sessions including dates and meeting links are on this webpage.

Here is a recording of the initial presentation introducing the LSE Manager Forum and also providing a little more detail about the facilitator's role (Lucy Mu) as Staff Disability and Mental Health Adviser.

Ensuring events are accessible

We encourage you to organise your own events for DHM! However when doing so remember to consider how to make the event accessible to people with disabilities.

In-person events

For in-person events, click here for basic information on physical access, and hearing loops.

The LSESU has also produced a comprehensive checklist to use when both planning an event and during an event.

Online events

There are various things you can consider when ensuring online teaching is accessible to disabled students. The same considerations apply to online events.

Live transcripts and subtitles can now be generated automatically when using Zoom. Learn how to set these up for your event. Alternatively you can organise our external supplier (121 Captions) to provide high quality live captioning.

Teams also provides options for captioning and transcriptions, but these can only be turned on by attendees once the meeting has started. You also need to make this option available to attendees before the meeting. If an alternative to Teams cannot be used, make attendees aware of this option and how to use it if they so wish.

Supporting materials

Whether your event is online or in-person, any supporting material you may use in the event should also be accessible. LSE has a practical guide to creating accessible resources here.

Further Resources

Explore the information below to get guidance on 'My Adjustments'; ensuring online teaching is accessible to disabled students; and giving feedback to, and marking the work of, neurodiverse students.

You can also read guidance on inclusive teaching for students with: