Daisy Holder
The Covid Disability Archive
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Disability History Snapshots
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Daisy Holder
- Sep 17, 2020
- 6 min
The Law According to Disabled People (in the UK)
I've decided to write a few quick primers to disability history, as I haven't written anything here for a while since I've been working...
Daisy Holder
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
Are the Beefeaters Our Greatest Historical Allies?
How historical buildings and the heritage sector have failed disabled people.
Daisy Holder
- Jun 20, 2020
- 6 min
Lockdown History: Now That Everything Is Suddenly Accessible
While this pandemic has put a spanner in the works of a lot of academic historical projects, mine included, it has vastly increased the...
Daisy Holder
- Jun 3, 2020
- 5 min
Brad Lomex: The Black Panthers and the Disability Rights Movement
How the Black Panthers helped the disability rights movement achieve their biggest goals.
Daisy Holder
- Jan 3, 2020
- 2 min
The 8 Days of DisHist-mas!
This was originally written for Twitter in the 8 days leading up to Christmas (it was originally going to be the traditional 12 days but...
Daisy Holder
- Dec 6, 2019
- 7 min
Disability History Month: Why "You've Never Had It So Good" is Actually Bullshit
While the theme for this year's Disability History Month is Leadership, Resistance and Culture, for this post I'm going a slightly...
Daisy Holder
- Oct 31, 2019
- 12 min
Black History Month: A Tale of Three Women
It is (in the UK anyway) Black History Month, and while I obviously want to mark this very important area of long ignored history, it is...
Daisy Holder
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
The Disabled, Quaker Oats and a Bastard: The Story of the Measles Vaccine.
This post comes to you on the day that it has been announced that here in the UK, we have lost our "measles free" status. This is a very...
Daisy Holder
- May 31, 2019
- 9 min
In the news this week...: Disability Politics for the Uninitiated.
This is a bit of a different post, so please let me know what you think of it! I know disability current affairs are missed somewhat by...
Daisy Holder
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
SEND National Crisis: What's All That About?
Today, May 30th 2019, families and their supporters from all over the country are marching to show support for children and young people...
Daisy Holder
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
My Ugly, Ugly Shoes: A Poorly Planned Holiday
My schedule this month is all whacked out, what with a late Easter, a trip this week and all the standard disabled/chronic illness lyf...
Daisy Holder
- Apr 2, 2019
- 3 min
Kicking a Garden Gnome Off a Cliff- Finding Accessible Sport
It's been a long time since I've written about myself from a personal perspective! I think I've remembered how to do it, so if I don't...
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Daisy Holder
- Mar 25, 2019
- 6 min
[ARCHIVE] An Almost Unending Ham Frenzy
Oh how adorable, back in February 2016 when I wrote this I was only coeliac and lactose intolerant and thought that was tricky. How times...
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Daisy Holder
- Mar 25, 2019
- 4 min
[ARCHIVE] Good Luck With Your... Ailment
This from January 2016 was the first time I really discussed interactions with the abled, and most of my friends were shocked at the...
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Daisy Holder
- Mar 22, 2019
- 5 min
[ARCHIVE] Here is a Bombshell Realisation: Having Disabilities and Illnesses is Quite Inconvenient
This post was originally written and posted on my very old wordpress blog in February 2014 while I was at uni. I was an intermittent...