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    Give your views about paralympic heritage

    by Kate Smith Posted on / August 23, 2016

    A new organisation, The National Paralympic Heritage Trust, is launching a survey on heritage.

    Wanted: Sound Artist for short commission in Liverpool

    by Kerry Massheder-Rigby Posted on / August 18, 2016

    Relief sculpture from the Royal School for the Blind in Liverpool showing two hands reading braille.

    We are seeking an experienced Sound Artist to produce a soundscape about the history of the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool during September and October.

    A ‘falconer with leprosy’: some residents at medieval hospitals

    by Ann Newman Posted on / August 7, 2016

    Religious houses offered sanctuary to disabled people and those with illnesses. Ann Newman puts some names and occupations to those who stayed there.

    Gargoyle-alien crossover fusion

    by Kate Smith Posted on / August 5, 2016

    Heart shaped bowls, gargoyles with horns and tentacles and big tongues

    Sci-fi met medieval in our pinch-pot workshops in Canterbury during July, led by Christopher Sacre

    Film Project Opportunity

    by Grace Swordy Posted on / July 22, 2016

    Guild of the Brave Poor Things

    15 – 25? Get invaluable training working on our short film in Bristol this August.

    Learning how to take an oral history

    by John Mills Posted on / July 20, 2016

    church like interior of Glenside Museum

    John Mills describes his introduction to oral history training – and a graveyard of superseded recording devices.

    Going to hospital, medieval style

    by Ann Newman Posted on / July 12, 2016

    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.

    Some artwork from the Canterbury Pageant

    by Research group South East Posted on / July 11, 2016

    Children show off their clay artwork

    Here is some of the artwork produced at the Beaney in Canterbury, during the Medieval Pageant.

    Disability and the theatre: The Government Inspector

    by Research group Liverpool Posted on / June 22, 2016

    Illustration showing government official as a cross between a Russian doll and a bomb, with money scattering around him.

    Gogol’s play is one of a series by a group of UK theatres which want to reframe how disability is staged. The project is called ‘Ramps on the Moon’.

    Wanted: film project manager and assistant, Bristol

    by Francesca Lashmar Posted on / June 22, 2016

    image of young disabled boys outside the School of the Brave Poor things in scout uniform

    Could you make a short film for us about the history of the Guild of the Brave Poor Things?

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