The long view
A snapshot of some landmarks in the lives of deaf and disabled people across the world since the 13th century – from oppression to work, education and choice about where to live.
DaDaFest Rookies Development Grants
DaDaFest is offering £1000 grants to emerging disabled artists aged 12 – 30 to develop your skills.
Ada Vachell: a life
The story of feminist and champion of the rights of disabled people, Ada Vachell, and how she created the Bristol Guild.
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.
Access All Areas
DaDaFest holds its main festival every two years. Steph Niciu describes making sure everyone is able to enjoy it.
The politics of disability: from 6th century China to the Industrial Revolution
Anna Fairley attends a talk by Roddy Slorach, who argues that whether you are ‘disabled’ depends on the society surrounding you.
‘Poor pilgrims falling sick’
Ann continues tracing almshouses beyond the medieval period, and discovers what happened to pilgrims who fell mortally ill.
‘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.