Heritage lover? Help shape the HLF’s funding decisions
HLF is seeking heritage lovers with a variety of backgrounds and skills to help shape its funding decisions in the South East.
Are the times changing?
We asked academic and activist Miro Griffiths to choose his favourite stories from our site, and give his own thoughts. This is a longer version of a piece which you can also see in our Story section.
Tender: M Shed Exhibition Fit out
We invite tenders to fit out our forthcoming exhibition at M Shed in Bristol.
Ida Penelope Page: Normansfield Resident (1895-1896)
In this, the first in a short series of case studies, we look at a cross-section of residents of Normansfield Hospital, hoping to shed light on both the successes and shortcomings of this groundbreaking institution.
Take the quiz: where would you like to live in history?
We bring you time travel! Find out where you would be happiest to live as a deaf or disabled person – from a medieval monastery to modern independent living.
Empathy not sympathy: visual impairment awareness training in Liverpool
The team in Liverpool receive visual impairment awareness training at St Vincent’s School.
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.
The lucky few
In the late 18th century Reverend Townsend of Bermondsey began raising funds and awareness to create the first education for deaf children who did not come from wealthy homes.
Exploring the past, changing the present
Moving towards our exhibition at MShed, with help from various organisations in Bristol Grace discusses how an exploration of deaf and disabled lives in the past can positively affect the present.
John Langdown Down and Normansfield Hospital
Ben looks at the man behind the institution that led the way in caring for learning disabled people in Victorian Britain, and finds that many of his ideas continue to have relevance in today’s society.