Empathy not sympathy: visual impairment awareness training in Liverpool
The team in Liverpool receive visual impairment awareness training at St Vincent’s School.
afterlife of a grand victorian institution
How the School for the Blind’s landmark building fell into disrepair and has found a new use but contains echoes of the past.
Clay, stained glass and monoprints at the Canterbury Medieval Pageant
Once again, we appointed artists to run workshops at Canterbury Medieval Pageant, including monoprint, stained glass window making and clay gargoyles.
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.
Did Edward Rushton drink tea? Creating a digital game in Liverpool
Merging past and future, fact and fiction with the help of a drama chap with an interesting suitcase, pupils at St Vincent’s are making a digital game based on the life of Edward Rushton.
John Langdown Down and Normansfield Hospital
Ben looks at the man behind the institution that led the way in caring for learning disabled people in Victorian Britain, and finds that many of his ideas continue to have relevance in today’s society.
A Survey of Residents of the Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury
Nathan shares the results of his exhaustive study of the residents of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury.
Guild of the Brave photograph albums
Photograph albums of the Guild of the Brave from around the First World War.