Join us at Canterbury Medieval Pageant for family activities
Take part in the pageant on Saturday 9th July. Many of our activities explore the lives of disabled people in the 12th century.
The medieval equivalent of Boots?
In which Ben McLoughlin finds the good bits in the ‘spectacularly dry’ Chronicles of the Maison Dieu, so you don’t have to…
Unravelling the life of Francis Peter Gervais
A Northern Irish landowner, preoccupied with refuting those who denied Shakespeare’s authorship, emerges from Aliide Naylor’s research into Chiswick House Asylum.
Undulating floors and subterranean rivers: to Maison Dieu
A visit to what remains of a former medieval building visited by Chaucer and royalty.
To the Langdon Down Centre theatre and museum
Volunteer Ruby visits Langdon Down and gives an introduction to the site, its theatre and museum.
Wanted: history detectives in London and Canterbury
Join us at venues including the former medieval hospital at Maison Dieu, St Saviour’s Deaf Church, Normansfield Hospital and Chiswick House – plus many archives.
Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind
The Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind was founded in 1791 by Edward Rushton and continues to run today as the Royal School for the Blind. It was the first such school in Britian and the second to be founded in the world. Rushton was a remarkable rights campaigner: apprenticed to a slave ship aged… Read more »
Into the archive at the Royal School for the Blind
Beth Astridge, History of Place Archivist, and I visit the Royal School for the Blind for a first look at the archives.
Research group visits Canterbury Cathedral archive
The volunteer research and archive group visit Canterbury Cathedral. They will be exploring documents going back to the 11th century for stories of deaf and disabled lives in medieval alms houses.
Ghosts, duels and gunfights: at the Royal School for the Blind
To the Royal School for the Blind, where headteacher Paul shared some wonderful stories about the school, such as the tale of the duel where the Chair of the charity and the Head Teacher had a gun fight!