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Category: History

From disability history and the 1920 Blind Workers’ March to the medieval take on Christmas – everything historical.

'February literally didn't exist in early Roman calendars'...
February 8, 2025July 1, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

January and February literally didn’t exist?! Makes sense.

Can we talk about Tiny Tim? The caption reads: "Can we talk about Tiny Tim? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens." Underneath, a 1924 black and white illustration by Harold Copping of Tiny Tim, a young boy from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He is leaning on a crutch, with a serious expression on his face. Over the top, a torn fragment of a page with a quote from the novella: "he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas-day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see."
December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On Tiny Tim, disability and A Christmas Carol

Millions of schoolchildren mark Children in Need every year - and Disability History Month? Very few.
December 6, 2024January 22, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Children in Need vs Disability History Month

A photo of Lucy, sitting in her wheelchair wearing a lot of brown. A text box says 'Damn the Victorians. It should still be Christmas'.
January 5, 2023February 8, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Damn the Victorians – it should still be Christmas. (Till February)

Text reads 'Disability and charity - it's complicated.' The image is the mid-section of one of those old charity collection boxes - they were all over the UK in the 1980s but come from an earlier era. They're essentially statues of children, this one is a boy with an underarm crutch and a caliper, holding a box marked 'Action for the crippled child' - this is the box you'd put your money in.
November 21, 2022December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability does not equal charity

Text reads: '"Justice not charity" Sound a bit too radical?' A photo of me in my wheelchair - I’m a white woman with long hair, wearing a bandana in my hair.
April 7, 2022July 22, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

‘Justice Not Charity’ – too radical?

The text reads - 'Disabled! The best word we have' Photo: Lucy is in the garden with Viola on her lap, they're wearing dark brown & mustard. You can just about see her ancient wheelchair.
April 2, 2021July 30, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disabled! | Not perfect, but the best word we have

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