Artefacts
Disabled Persons Discretionary Parking Permit
About The disabled persons discretionary parking permit, which used to be called the Orange Badge, is what came before the current permit, known as the Blue Badge. It is used to show that someone is entitled to park in a designated parking space or other... read more »
T-shirt: BCODP DPI
About This T-shirt is from joint work between the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People (BCODP) and Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI). Description A white T-shirt. In the centre is a red stylised globe surrounded by 7 broken red stripes stretching outwards in different directions. Wrapped around... read more »
Badge: Free Our People - DAN
About This badge was designed and used for the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) ‘Free Our People’ campaign, which was launched in 1999. The campaign highlighted the fact that many disabled people were still forced to live in residential homes because of a lack... read more »
Banner: Save the Independent Living Fund.
About Made with cotton and felt, the banner was designed by Brian Hilton and hand-made by Wadiha Ahmed in 2014. It was used extensively in the ‘Save the Independent Living Fund’ campaign. This photo shows the banner being held up by protestors outside the Royal... read more »
Commemorative Stamps: International Year of Disabled People 1981
About The United Nations set 1981 as the International Year of Disabled People. These commemorative stamps, sold by Royal Mail, were designed by John Gibbs Description A presentation wallet of stamps. On the left, the outside of the wallet has a brown background with white writing: ‘The... read more »
Handcuff: ADAPT Protest, USA - 1998
About Non-violent Direct Action has been a necessary and important tactic used by disabled people to draw much needed media and government attention to our exclusion from many aspects of society. This half of a handcuff was used in October 1998, to attach a protestor... read more »
Collection Doll, Spastics Society
About This collection doll, which is about 3 feet, or 1 metre tall, was ‘borrowed’ by a GMCDP member from a street in Chester when they were doing a piece of work with young disabled people in that city. It was used to demonstrate the... read more »
T-shirt: Sameena & Kristine Must Stay
About This campaign was to stop the deportation of Sameena & Kristine, two young Deaf women of Romani descent who faced persecution if deported back to the Ukraine. Description A white T-shirt with the words ‘Sameena & Kristine must stay’ in black block capitals. Below these is... read more »
Badge: Rights for Disabled People Now!
About The Rights Now Group and campaign was launched in 1992 by the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People. It was a development from Voluntary Organisations for Anti-Discrimination Legislation, which began in the mid 1980s. 50 organisations of and for disabled people were in... read more »
T-shirt: Nothing About Us Without Us - DAN
About The Disabled People’s Direct Action Network, DAN, created a number of campaign t-shirts. This T-shirt is from their ‘Blair’s Blood’ protest against benefit cuts on 22 December 1997, in London at the Downing Street gates. Description A white T-shirt with three lines of writing in block... read more »