afterlife of a grand victorian institution
How the School for the Blind’s landmark building fell into disrepair and has found a new use but contains echoes of the past.
Project stories
Come with us on a journey to the eight places we have explored, and the personalities associated with them – from people who lived at Maison Dieu in the 13th century, to St Saviour’s Deaf church and innovative 1970s housing. Images, quotations and sounds come together to recreate 800 years of ideas and societies.
Are the times changing?
Is the idea of ‘progress’ real? Academic Miro Griffiths chooses some favourite stories from our history, and asks how much has changed.
The end of the Bristol Guild
Why a club for disabled people, which lasted for almost a century, decided to close in the 1980s.
History of Place
The History of Place project visits eight locations across the country, over eight hundred years to rediscover the lives, pictures and stories of some of these people.
Maison Dieu
Maison Dieu (‘House of God’) is one of a handful of remarkable survivals which stand at the beginning of our story of deaf and disabled people through history.