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
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.
We gave Miro Griffiths a test run of a robot from Bristol Robotics for a day as part of our symposium on the past and future of deaf and disabled people. He discussed the implications of new tech with Dr Praminda Caleb-Solly.
Things got a bit gory at The Beaney in Canterbury as museum visitors constructed a story of peril in Medieval England to feed into our digital game.
Our volunteers made this striking banner for our MShed exhibition, which takes inspiration from lost Guild sewn objects, and reflects on the community’s history.
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.
How did the imperial and World wars which Britain was engaged in affect the Guild and how it presented itself?
How Guild members got stuck for so long with a name that many did not like.
History and storytelling met robotics in our symposium – watch the film to explore utopias and dystopias for deaf and disabled people.
How poverty, disability and lack of access to nature were all linked for some Guild members – and the language used to appeal for country holidays.
Could you spare five minutes to fill in a short survey on our exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things?
Save the link: we will be livestreaming our event looking to the past and future of disabled people from this page on 20th October as part of the Festival of the Future City.