Free: creative workshop opportunity Body/building sensing the past
Work with artist and heritage professional James Aldridge and use your senses and imagination to bring the Guild’s history to life.
Grace Swordy
Grace Swordy is the Accentuate History of Place Project Co-ordinator based in Bristol.
That’s a wrap!
Grace Swordy describes the film a group of young people helped to make during August 2016 in Bristol, exploring and imagining life at the Guild a century ago.
Film Project Opportunity
15 – 25? Get invaluable training working on our short film in Bristol this August.
Institutional propaganda and ‘educative convalescence’
How ‘sleepy sickness’ – the illness described by Oliver Sacks came to Bristol, and how disabled children helped soldiers returning from WW1 adapt to the loss of limbs.
The search begins at Bristol Record Office
We find our way around the archives, and one volunteer finds documents relating to his mother.
To Glenside Museum
An exploration of information and exhibits at Glenside Museum in Bristol
Bristol Research Group meeting – and your invitation to attend
The Bristol VRAG group is being formed to research into the lives of deaf and disabled people throughout Bristol History, especially relating to the Guild of The Brave and Poor in Old Market.
To Ujima radio
Grace is a guest on the radio show, Babbers, which airs on Ujima, a Bristol community radio station, on 98FM. She talks about how people in Bristol can take part in the History of Place project.
The view from Bristol…
Grace Swordy describes her first month as History of Place co-ordinator in Bristol – including meeting volunteers, and visits to MSHED and Bristol Record Office.