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Our volunteers have been working hard and having great adventures along the way. Browse the stories below or click on an individual image to see more from an individual volunteer.

Operation Etsy: valuing craftwork over time

Large rectangular laundry basket with hinged lid and rope handles with ‘School for the Blind’ stencilled on the front. In the collection of the Museum of Liverpool MMM.1994.108.1, image taken by Anna Fairley Nielsson.

Basket-weaving: the beautiful product of skilled labour valued by the well off, or low status work for disabled people, replacing an education? Esther Fox discusses how, at different times, it has been both.