School for the Blind architecture – and a secret tunnel
Images of the School for the Blind in Liverpool through time, from the archives of National Museums Liverpool.
Images of the School for the Blind in Liverpool through time, from the archives of National Museums Liverpool.
Nina explores a young woman admitted to an asylum with insomnia and visions with religious overtones. She asks how we should interpret the diagnoses of other periods.
Other medieval hospitals near the pilgrimage site of Canterbury help us build a picture of care during the period.
Religious houses offered sanctuary to disabled people and those with illnesses. Ann Newman puts some names and occupations to those who stayed there.
Sci-fi met medieval in our pinch-pot workshops in Canterbury during July, led by Christopher Sacre
Anna Ellis finds memories of an enlightened approach at Normansfield Hospital, very different to many Victorian asylums.
Matthew Walsh on disability equality training with DaDaFest and the ‘weight of history’ he feels as he begins to delve into Liverpool’s past.
John Mills describes his introduction to oral history training – and a graveyard of superseded recording devices.
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.
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.