The marchers were blind men from sheltered workshops and trade union councils. They wanted pensions and workers’ rights; “Justice not charity” was their motto.
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One Last Push: the final battle of WW1?
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Wilfred Owen
A copy of Wilfred Owen’s discharge letter is among many treasures in the Memory Box. It’s not exactly poetry but that letter brought the poet from a medical centre in Wales to Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh where he met Siegfried Sassoon in 1917. With such tangible stuff is history told – and retold through the extraordinary work of Disability History Scotland.
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