Hot irons and hemorrhoids
Things got a bit gory at The Beaney in Canterbury as museum visitors constructed a story of peril in Medieval England to feed into our digital game.
Kate Smith
Web editor at the History of Place project
A banner for Bristol’s disabled communities of the past
Our volunteers made this striking banner for our MShed exhibition, which takes inspiration from lost Guild sewn objects, and reflects on the community’s history.
Rising with the city: our exhibition about the Bristol Guild
Our MShed exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things shows how disabled people advocated for themselves and survived in a changing society from the late Victorian period the 1980s.
The Guild in a time of flags and war
How did the imperial and World wars which Britain was engaged in affect the Guild and how it presented itself?
Irritated apprentices: empowering people, up to a point
How Guild members got stuck for so long with a name that many did not like.
Watch the film: Brave, Poor (and invisible): The gatekeepers of past and future cities
History and storytelling met robotics in our symposium – watch the film to explore utopias and dystopias for deaf and disabled people.
Please may I go to the country?
How poverty, disability and lack of access to nature were all linked for some Guild members – and the language used to appeal for country holidays.
Visited our MShed exhibition? please let us know what you thought
Could you spare five minutes to fill in a short survey on our exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things?
Brave, Poor – and Livestreamed
Save the link: we will be livestreaming our event looking to the past and future of disabled people from this page on 20th October as part of the Festival of the Future City.
Protected: ‘Looking out of the window and not seeing Downton Abbey’
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