Dear All,
I am looking for a home for a mini library of videos, books, papers
from the last 30 years on Disability.
I have hundreds of videos (pre-recorded / taped of TV). And lot of
books / papers (academic texts / autobiographies and fiction /
pamphlets: town guides for the 'handicapped' from the 1970s; reports
from conferences; research papers; and magazines).
I do not want money or anything for them. All I would like is that
they go to a home (preferably an institution that can house them) that
will not destroy or throw them away. They are an historical record of
the development f disability over the past 30 years. It would be a
shame to do what most libraries do (where I got a lot of the stuff
from); throw it away when it seemed out of date. Ideally I would like
to give it all to a Museum / History Center of Disability but doubt
such a place exists in the UK.
Their is too much stuff to transport outside the UK (sorry those non-Uk
places that could house it or would like it.
I am sure many of you would like to give stuff to a library and suggest
- with your help - that we support someone to set up such a place in
the UK if one of you wants to do it. As disabled people enter a dark
historical period (genetics / euthanasia / abortion at nearly 100% for
an increasing number of impairment types - it scares the shot out of
me!) such a place is never more needed and, I feel, less likely to
happen. But, are any of us bothered!
It could only be achieved with mass institutional (educational,
historical and nationally significant )and personal support from
members of this mail group and their institutions / departments.
Enough ramblings of an incontinent. Anyone want the stuff? If you do
we will talk about getting it to you/your site later.
Interesting Note: would others like to give some of their material away
to a disability history museum (or the like). Never know, it might
inspire someone reading to do something about it with the groups
support.
Dr Paul Darke [log in to unmask]
112 Clark Road
Compton
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV3 9PB
Tel & Fax: 01902 716747
Mobile: 07949 625482
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