Survey results: deaf and disabled people in the cultural sector,
Curating for Change: deaf and disabled people leading in museums,
‘I was always rebelling against the system’,
BSL introduction to the stories of Deaf people told by the History of Place project,
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Our volunteers have been working hard and having great adventures along the way. Browse the stories below or click on an individual image to see more from an individual volunteer.
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This short film, narrated by Maggie Davis and showing images from her archive, tells the story of how she and her husband Ken resisted being institutionalised in 70s Britain and started the Independent Living Movement.
Not sure where to start providing better access to your exhibitions? These toolkits helps museums and heritage sites make a better offer to deaf and disabled visitors.
Read our celebration document describing the achievements of History of Place over three years – and our plans to embed these successes in the cultural sector in the future.
Listen to our audio tour of the Museum of Liverpool exhibition ‘The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places’ – or read more about the adventurous founders of the school.
Tracking some of the names and families associated with St Saviour’s Deaf Church from London Metropolitan Archives.
Our MShed exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things shows how disabled people advocated for themselves and survived in a changing society from the late Victorian period the 1980s.
History and storytelling met robotics in our symposium – watch the film to explore utopias and dystopias for deaf and disabled people.
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.
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.
Trade unionist and political activist described as ‘the most cheerful man in the Labour movement’.