Disability History Month: Disability, Health and Wellbeing

The Collection

To mark this year's Disability History Month, the Library has created a new digital Collection in collaboration with LTSU Disabled Students' Officer Caitlin Fieldhouse.

The theme this month is Disability, Health and Well Being, and the online collection has been curated to cover a range of topics affecting disabled people throughout history and in the present day, along with books written by people with disabilities. 

The collection includes ebooks and books available in the Library. We also have a physical display of titles in that can be browsed and borrowed.

You can also access many articles on the subject of disability and health using Library Search.

What is UKDHM?

Disability History Month runs from mid-November to mid-December every year and covers HIV/AIDS Day (1st December), International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd Dec.) and International Human Rights Day (10th December).

It also follows on directly from Anti-Bullying Week (19th to 18th November) which is important as 2.5 times as much bullying is recorded towards disabled young people as compared to non-disabled (70-80% of young disabled people claim to have been bullied in school and college).*

You can find out more about Disability History Month on the UK Disability History Month website.

*Source: World of Inclusion Ltd (2022) What is UKDHM? [online]. Available at: https://www.ukdhm.org/what-is-ukdhm/ [Accessed 18 November 2022]

Add to Library collections

We are always happy to receive recommendations for titles to support your study and research, or resources you think that the Library should own.

Check out our Request a resource guide for more information!

As we near the end of November, things are starting to hot up in the library, with everybody feeling the pressure that little bit more.  

We understand that this can be a busy, stressful time of year!  We ask that you help your fellow students (and yourselves!) by respecting the library space, as well as everyone who works or studies here. 

This way, we can try and maintain a calm, pleasant working environment for everybody.

We ask that everybody follows our #respect code:

Return your library books on time - especially if they have been Reserved!

Eating cold food in the Library is ok. Hot food should only be eaten in the café / foyer area. 

Silent study means just that.  If you need to talk move to an appropriate space or book a Group Study Room.

Please put your rubbish in the bins and clear up after yourself.

Everybody is entitled to a quiet and pleasant experience in the Library.

Cigarette smoking and vaping are not permitted in the Library. Keep these outside and only in the smoking shelters.

Tell us if you encounter any problems, we’re here to help. 

Everybody that uses the Library is expected to follow our Acceptable Use Policy and other guidelines - you can see these and more information on our Respect in the Library page.

We hope that you can see the benefit of following this simple code, and that it can help create a more pleasant, positive working environment during a stressful time of year.

In response to the current cost of living crisis, the Library will now be available as a 'Warm Space' for members of the local community during the autumn, winter and spring of 2022/23. 

The Warm Space will be available in all open areas of the Library during core opening hours, Monday to Friday, to anyone aged 18 or over who lives or works in the areas of Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, Wakefield, the City of York and Selby. We hope that this will provide support to people in our local community at a time of real need. More information is available in our Warm Space guide.

Local community members looking to use the Library as a Warm Space should visit the Library Helpdesk upon arrival, where they will be welcomed and shown around. 

We will be supporting all users to ensure the Library remains a peaceful and productive place to study. 

If you have any queries, please contact us.