UK Disability History Month 2025

It is UK Disability History Month, providing a platform to raise awareness of the historical struggle of people with disabilities for equality and human rights. The library has collated a few useful print and online resources to share with the university community.

Details of events and further resources are available on the staff intranet, ‘Disability History Month (DHM) matters to everyone, as disability is everybody’s business.’ 

We also wanted to highlight a recent acquisition to the library, 3 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Library collections available via LibrarySearch :  

• Autism and Neurodiversity 
• Mental Health and Counselling 
• Inclusive Teaching and Learning 

Jessica Kingsley are a specialist publishing company, who since 1987 have been experts in autism, art therapies and social work. They continued to grow to include mental health, gender diversity and neurodiversity, as well as championing authors living with first-hand experience of these topics. They have been trying to raise own voices to combat and challenge negative approaches to neurodiversity and mental health.  

Thanks to this approach, these books provide a well-rounded picture of each topic, giving both academic research on the topics, but also advice for people who might be experiencing neurodiversity or mental health problems. For example “Autism and Masking” discusses this common behaviour while “The Autism and Neurodiversity Self-Advocacy Handbook” is targeted at helping autistic individuals stand up for their rights and health in a world that can be hostile to their needs. 

In addition to autism, all three collections touch on a range of neurodiversity's, mental health conditions, and intense emotions which may impact an individual, including: 

• ADHD 
• Auditory Processing disorder 
• PTSD 
• Eating Disorders 
• Borderline Personality Disorder 
• Suicide 
• Relational trauma 
• And many more 

With this broad coverage of many conditions and experiences, we hope these books will help the university community get the best out of their time at Wolverhampton. The texts provide advice, tips, and tools to help understand yourselves and others and support all in their journeys.