Speaking For Ourselves Time To Get Equal Scope

Resources

Speaking for Ourselves is a two-year oral history project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to produce a DVD (view the video now!) and CD-ROM for schools. To order this free teaching pack, contact us or you can download some of the elements here:

Speaking for Ourselves

Here are some of the other resources we have produced: (Word docs, under 100k)

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Oral history of Scope

Changing Society book cover

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Scope commissioned freelance journalist Chris Davies to produce an oral history of Scope entitled Changing Society. The history is based on interviews with 17 individuals, the majority of who, like Chris, have cerebral palsy and have played a significant role in the organisation's development or who have strong opinions about it.

Download Changing Society book (pdf, 300k) - this 168-page book available for free download.

The life of Bill Hargreaves

When Bill Hargreaves was born in Australia in 1919, he weighed just two and a half pounds. His parents were told that, because he had cerebral palsy, he would ''never walk or work or wed''. Bill's remarkable life defied the doctor's diagnosis. Bill became a campaigner for disabled people's right to work. It was the start of his pioneering work, which was to open up employment, recreation and travel to vast numbers of disabled people both in this country and many others around the world.

Hargreaves book coverDownload a sample chapter (0.2Mb) or the whole book (as a zip file, 3.5Mb) of the life of Scope founding member Bill Hargreaves, 'Can you manage stares?'.

Changing Society and Bill Hargreaves interviews

Summaries are available on the British Library Sound Archive website at http://cadensa.bl.uk/cgi-bin/webcat (type "C984" in the search box), where you can also book an appointment to hear the interviews in full.

For further information, email s4o@scope.org.uk, call 020 7619 7228 or write to:

Project Co-ordinator
Speaking For Ourselves
Scope
6 Market Road
London
N7 9PW