We're already addressing this issue in the narrower context of Disability
Arts. Tony Heaton, Director of Holton Lee, is finding funding for an
archive building at Holton Lee, designed by Tony Fretton.
As a first step in this process of recording the history of Disability Arts,
the Edward Lear Foundation (www.learfoundation.org.uk) has
Arts Council funding to create a chronology of Disability Arts, so
that we have the basic tool to start doing historical work.
If anyone has important material relating specifically to Disability Arts,
please let me or Tony know.
More generally, I'd say that I think a library/archive of our movement as a
whole would be an enormously valuable thing to have. There should
potentially be funding available from the Heritage Lottery. The catch would
be that the Heritage Lottery does not normally give funding for the creation
of new archives. But if a collection were to be assembled, then the chances
of claiming funding for cataloguing it, improving how it was housed etc
would
be quite high, I think.
All the best
Allan Sutherland
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From: "Paul Darke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:28 AM
Subject: Disability Books Videos Papers - want them
> 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 from); throw it away when it seemed out of date.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]
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