A few of my favourite things……
Our project co-ordinator shares some of her favourite things from our exhibition about the Blind School, open until 15th April. Visiting? Share your favourite things with us here or @H_O_P on twitter.
Audio tour: The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places
Audio tour of the History of Place/Museum of Liverpool exhibition.
Useful and beautiful: how practical items gave the Blind School its own aesthetic
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
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.
Exploring archives with HOP research volunteers and members of Mencap Liverpool
Training for our research group, and for members of Liverpool Mencap who picked up ideas about how to use their own archive.
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.
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.
Our evacuation diary, 1939
Ann, a volunteer researcher in Liverpool, shares excerpts from a handwritten diary that was kept by students of the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool upon their evacuation in 1939.
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.