Gargoyle-alien crossover fusion
Sci-fi met medieval in our pinch-pot workshops in Canterbury during July, led by Christopher Sacre
Blog
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.
Stimulating the Senses: How Normansfield Hospital used performance
Anna Ellis finds memories of an enlightened approach at Normansfield Hospital, very different to many Victorian asylums.
Film Project Opportunity
15 – 25? Get invaluable training working on our short film in Bristol this August.
Games and discussions: some disability equality training in Liverpool
Matthew Walsh on disability equality training with DaDaFest and the ‘weight of history’ he feels as he begins to delve into Liverpool’s past.
Learning how to take an oral history
John Mills describes his introduction to oral history training – and a graveyard of superseded recording devices.
Going to hospital, medieval style
Centuries before the NHS, monasteries were a refuge for the sick. Ann Newman is researching the records of one such place, St John’s Canterbury.
Operation Etsy: valuing craftwork over time
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.
Some artwork from the Canterbury Pageant
Here is some of the artwork produced at the Beaney in Canterbury, during the Medieval Pageant.
Into the object stores at National Museums Liverpool
What can objects hidden behind the scenes in the museum stores tell us about the School for the Blind?
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.