The Story of Helen: now live
Follow our digital story set in 1236, at Maison Dieu, a monastic hospital on the pilgrim road to Canterbury.
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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.
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The past in digital: recreating the lives and landscapes of disabled people
Our project has explored eight centuries of history through archive research and events. We have used much of what we learned to create some digital experiences.
David Bonnett talks about Inclusive Design
David Bonnett is an architect whose work features in our exhibition in partnership with the V&A Without Walls: Disability and Innovation in Building Design. He is also disabled himself and so brings personal experience to the creation of inclusive design.
Deaf history detective work – seeking clues in a family history
Pam Friend knows that her great-grandparents were both deaf and that one or both may have attended the Royal School for Deaf Children in Margate. Now she is trying to find out more about their lives.
Strict rules and searching questions
‘Has the applicant ever begged?’ In the early days admittance to the School came with strict rules (and some intrusive questions).
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.
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.
Oralism & The Royal School for the Deaf, Margate
Nina describes how decisions made at a conference in Milan in 1880 may have harmed the education of deaf children for a century, and describes her own experience of becoming deaf and beginning to learn BSL.
The lucky few
In the late 18th century Reverend Townsend of Bermondsey began raising funds and awareness to create the first education for deaf children who did not come from wealthy homes.
Robert ‘Dixie’ Smith, ‘the blind leader of the blind’.
Trade unionist and political activist described as ‘the most cheerful man in the Labour movement’.