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Visited our MShed exhibition? please let us know what you thought

A line of children with crutches, the epitaph reads I thought to myself how nice it is for me to live in a world like this.

Could you spare five minutes to fill in a short survey on our exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things?

The people and culture of the Bristol Guild and other organisations

Each associate shall strive to live up to the guild motto laetus sorte mea. Each associate shall do something to help the guild

A selection of early to mid 20th century papers and books from the Guild, Chailey Heritage Sussex and the Bristol Council for the Disabled, giving an insight into individuals, their lives, and what was expected of members.

Brave, Poor – and Livestreamed

image of young disabled boys outside the School of the Brave Poor things in scout uniform

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.

The Liverpool School for the Blind: a history in objects

Museum and archive holdings from across Liverpool which tell the story of the School for the Blind from the 18th – 20th century

Letting in the light: architecture for a Deaf Church

Image shows people in Victorian dress signing during a church service

When London’s only church for deaf people moved from Oxford Street to Acton, the architecture was carefully designed for signed services.

Useful and beautiful: how practical items gave the Blind School its own aesthetic

Stylised images of man and woman weaving baskets and chairs

Two lovely objects produced for the Blind School both reflect the skills taught on the premises.

What goes up but doesn’t come down? digital game making at the Museum of Liverpool

We sketched our ideas for each scene of the game onto pictures of a mobile phone screen-the image shows all f the A5 pieces of paper lined up in order of when the scene occurs in the game

Edward Rushton’s brave and exciting life gets mashed up with quotes, nicknames and krakens as we develop a digital game about his life with young people from Liverpool.

Magic lanterns and cyanotypes

We held an art workshop at Chiswick House and Gardens drawing inspiration from image manipulations that were popular during the Victorian period.

Exploring archives with HOP research volunteers and members of Mencap Liverpool

Volunteers from the History of Place Liverpool research group are sat at a large (big enough for twenty people!), old fashioned (wood with a leather top) table in the Royal School for the Blind boardroom. They are each looking at various paper based objects like ledgers, newspapers and letters.

Training for our research group, and for members of Liverpool Mencap who picked up ideas about how to use their own archive.

Take the quiz: where would you like to live in history?

Boys in scout group stand in front of a union jack

We bring you time travel! Find out where you would be happiest to live as a deaf or disabled person – from a medieval monastery to modern independent living.

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