Setting up the Volunteer Research and Archive Group in Liverpool
One of the most important activities of the History of Place project is the archival research carried out by members of the Volunteer Research and Archive Group (VRAG)….
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The politics of disability: from 6th century China to the Industrial Revolution
…history. Defining disability itself can be a difficult matter. Roddy asked, why, for example, did his need for glasses not count as a disability, when his hearing impairment does? Recent…
Blindness in the 18th century: from Egyptian ophthalmia to cataract surgery
…reasons for loss of sight were due to side effects from diseases such as small-pox, measles and whooping cough, as well as natural defects, injury, glaucoma, inflammation and cataracts. While…
To Glenside Museum
On Wednesday 30th March I visited Glenside Museum in Bristol. Researching into different institutions in Bristol that were significant for the lives of deaf and disabled people brought…
No drinking, brawling or blasphemy
highlights the belief within the Church that spiritual wrongdoing, as they saw it, imperilled the soul and therefore must be strongly curtailed. However, those guilty of more corporeal crimes might…
From poems to Acts of Parliament: our discoveries in Liverpool Records Office
…We then went up to the third floor to secure our bags in a locker before entering the Search Room. Kerry had ordered some relevant books ahead of time and…
The last century of a very ancient house
One of the fascinating things for me about the History of Place project is the rise, and sometimes fall, of quite impressive architecture. Many of the eight sites…
Please may I go to the country?
…I do not think she ever had the pleasure of seeing a field before’. Charlotte is a little cripple girl, one of others who until last summer had never in…