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Disability History Month 2025
Learning and Outreach Manager Pen Foreman, a disabled person and access specialist, explores what it means to explore disability heritage in museums
15 December 2025
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Learning and Outreach Manager Pen Foreman, a disabled person and access specialist, explores what it means to explore disability heritage in museums
In spring 2024 Bradford District Museums and Galleries were delighted to receive a small collection of objects relating to Stephen Brown, an award-winning powerlifter who had a rare genetic condition.
UK Disability History Month is an annual event, run in November every year since 2010. If you’d like to learn more about the nation-wide event, their website can be found here
The theme for this year is War and impairment: The Social Consequence of Disablement, something that our Curator, Liz McIvor ,addresses as part of the Bradford’s War 1914-18 Exhibition, on display at Bradford Industrial Museum until the 19th November.