Chiswick House, London
Maison Dieu, Faversham
Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind, Liverpool
Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability, Teddington
The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate
Guild of the Brave Poor Things, Bristol
St Saviour’s Deaf Church, Acton
Grove Road Housing Scheme, Sutton-in-Ashfield
experiences, in comparison to, and informed by, archive items at the Wellcome Collection. Learning what is important to the neurodiverse community when telling the history of labelling people with learning…
…end result – sometimes it’s helpful to have someone coming in from outside (& offering resources) to get things off the ground. #rethinkdisability pic.twitter.com/Fblq5tF8HW — History of Place (@H_O_P) March…
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…to archive imagery and objects to bring the building’s history to life. No experience necessary, free to attend and funded by HLF. The workshop will be fully accessible and there…
A visit to Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability, where Francesca discovers a giant carnival figure created by one of the residents, James Henry Pullen….
John Langdon Down was an eminent physician who, in the mid-nineteenth century undertook pioneering work in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabled people. His key academic paper, entitled “Observations…
Normansfield Hospital was founded by John Langdon Down in 1868 as a home for people with learning disabilities and a place where they could be educated. ‘Downs Syndrome’ is named…