Disability Rights and Dignities — live event
For much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest - often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, disabled people are still treated as different. Join campaigners and authors Rachel Charlton-Dailey and Stephen Unwin for a powerful examination of disability rights in history and today. From the ‘crippled suffragette’, to ’80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a stand online, Rachel Charlton-Dailey celebrates the amazing activists and protest actions behind the UK’s long battle for disabled people’s rights to live. An award-winning disabled journalist, activist and author, Rachel's work highlights an overlooked tradition of disabled struggle and unpacks how British attitudes and policy went so wrong in the twenty-first century. Stephen Unwin is one of Britain's leading theatre and opera directors. He founded English Touring Theatre in
Starts: 2025-10-15T18:30:00Z
Ends: 2025-10-15T20:30:00Z
Where: 25 Red Lion Street, England WC1R 4RL, United Kingdom
Price: $7.18