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.
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.
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.
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.
Ghosts, duels and gunfights: at the Royal School for the Blind
To the Royal School for the Blind, where headteacher Paul shared some wonderful stories about the school, such as the tale of the duel where the Chair of the charity and the Head Teacher had a gun fight!
Unsung: remembering Edward Rushton
Unsung is a play telling the story of Edward Rushton, founder of the Royal School for the Indignant Blind. It aims to make the story of this forgotten hero, who also opposed slavery, better known.
To Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability
A visit to Langdon Down Centre and Museum of Learning Disability, where Francesca discovers a giant carnival figure created by one of the residents, James Henry Pullen.