Premiere of ‘Our Guild’, the first History of Place project film
Our film will be screened in Bristol in early December 2016.
‘Out brothers and in sisters’: 600 years of Eastbridge Hospital
Some hospitals survived for hundreds of years, providing sanctuary – and gathering idiosyncratic rules and one or two myths.
Tender of their persons, and zealous of their rights: William Somner, a Canterbury hero
At a time of huge national upheaval during and after the Civil War, was there anyone around who still cared about England’s almshouses? Yes.
Mapping Monday at DaDaFest: Skin Deep
Join us for the launch of a new interactive trail of deaf and disabled people’s histories around Liverpool on Monday 21st November.
Telling stories with sound, objects and scents at the Royal School for the Blind
One challenge of the History of Place project has been thinking about how to engage all five senses in storytelling. Creative workshops at the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool explored how to transport listeners’ imaginations to tunnels and 18th century cargo ships using sound and smell.
That’s a wrap!
Grace Swordy describes the film a group of young people helped to make during August 2016 in Bristol, exploring and imagining life at the Guild a century ago.
Maison Dieu
Maison Dieu (‘House of God’) is one of a handful of remarkable survivals which stand at the beginning of our story of deaf and disabled people through history.
Restless sleepers
An epidemic of ‘sleepy sickness’ swept through the US and Europe between 1916 – 27, immortalised by Oliver Sacks’ ‘Awakenings’. Some survivors attended the Guild in Bristol, with a variety of post-encephalitic symptoms. Grace Morgan-Tait investigates.
Speaking your way back into the historical record
Oral history can be invaluable for capturing the stories of people and communities who might otherwise be left out of history. Dr Fiona Cosson gave us a masterclass in Liverpool.
Blindness in the 18th century: from Egyptian ophthalmia to cataract surgery
During the 18th century common diseases like small-pox, measles and whooping cough were all causes of blindness, as well as ‘Egyptian ophthalmia’ which hospitalised whole regiments of English and French troops.