Premiere of ‘Our Guild’, the first History of Place project film
Our film will be screened in Bristol in early December 2016.
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.
Restless sleepers
An epidemic of ‘sleepy sickness’ swept through the US and Europe between 1916 – 27, immortalised by Oliver Sacks’ ‘Awakenings’. Some survivors attended the Guild in Bristol, with a variety of post-encephalitic symptoms. Grace Morgan-Tait investigates.
Learning how to take an oral history
John Mills describes his introduction to oral history training – and a graveyard of superseded recording devices.
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.