Finding collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people

One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.

Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.

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Title
Date
Artist

LOURDES' WHEELCHAIRS ON LIME STREET STATION (Photograph)

1985

ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL VEST, ALAN RUDKIN (Vest)

1960s

BUFFER BOYS BE WARNED! (Poster)

1957-8

AXE THE BEDROOM TAX NOW! POSTER (Poster)

2013-2014

NATIONAL BENEVOLENT FUND BOX (Wooden 'poor box')

LIVERPOOL CORPORATION TRAMWAYS PASS (Ticket)

ORWELL ROAD SCHOOL (Postcard)

Around 1910

BUST OF EDWARD RUSHTON (Sculpture)

2014

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH, SHOWING PRODUCTS FOR SALE MADE BY HARDMAN STREET SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AT A LIVERPOOL THEATRE (Photograph)

1949

BRITISH DEAF ASSOCIATION MEDAL OF HONOUR AWARDED TO ROSIE COOPER (Medal)

2022

PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: 30 YEARS ON (Book)

2017

COUNTY ASYLUM, WINWICK PHOTOGRAPH (Photograph)

1909

PROSTHETIC LEG (Prosthesis)

1996

WORLD TEAM CUP GB QUAD MEDAL (Medal)

2001

PINK 'RIGHTS NOT ROSES' STICKER (Sticker)

1994

YELLOW PROTEST FLYER (Flyer/Poster)

1994

DISABLED PEOPLES DIRECT ACTION NETWORK (DAN) NEWSLETTER (Paper newsletter)

1997

THE RECLAMATION OF RYAN BROWN (Artwork)

2023

GREAVES HALL HOSPITAL BOOKLET (Booklet)

1954

ORWELL ROAD SPECIAL SCHOOL HANDICRAFT CLASS (Postcard)

1910 about

THE KINTSUGI HEART (Artwork)

2023

A FEELING LIKE WEARING A GLOVE (Artwork)

2023

ROSIE COOPER, BILL COOPER AND PRINCESS DIANA (Photograph)

1992-1993

HAND SPLINT (Medical splint)

2000s

LEST WE FORGET. CAN YOU FIND THIS EX SERVICE MAN A JOB? IF NOT, PLEASE HELP HIM BY BUYING THIS CARD' (Card)

BILLY WALTERS FIGURINE (Ceramic figurine)

1840

TOWN HALL POOR BOX (Wooden 'poor box')

1858

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, MAN WITH ARTIFICIAL LEGS (Photograph)

1890s

WILLIAM HENRY HUNT 'SKETCH OF A POLLING BOOTH' (Sketch)

ARTIFICIAL RIGHT ARM (Prosthesis)

1913

FRESH AIR FOR HEALTH POSTER (Railway Poster)

1937

ABERYSTWYTH PAINTING (Watercolour painting)

1959

WHY DON'T YOU GET OUT AND ABOUT MORE OFTEN POSTER (Railway advertising poster)

c. 1968

THE SKEGNESS CURE (Painting)

1911

CAST IRON SIGN (Railway signage)

c.1910

EXPLORE THE HOME COUNTIES POSTER (Railway Poster)

1936

EAST COAST JOYS POSTER (Railway advertising poster)

1931

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, AMPUTEE SHOE POLISHER (Photograph)

1890s

GEORGE WOOD PHOTOGRAPH, MAN WITH A CRUTCH (Photograph)

1890s

WILLIAM HENRY HUNT, INTERIOR OF WEST HILL VILLA (Painting)

1845

PORTRAIT OF SAM PROWSE (Photograph)

2021

GREETING CARD, 'ROSIE COOPER MP, BSL BILL 2022' (Greeting card)

2022

HANDS UP TO STOP HATE CRIME' (Poster)

2013

LAPEL BADGE (Military badge)

1914-1918

BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE ACT 2022 (Government Act)

2022

THIS IS YOUR LIFE (Television Script)

24th April, 1961

ENGLAND BLIND FOOTBALL TEAM SHIRT (Football shirt)

2009

MERSEYTRAVEL PASS (Travel pass)

1990-1991

BRAILLE WATCH (Watch)

HAREBRAINED (Artwork)

2023

STAINSBY BRAILLER (Braille writing machine)

1800

RECTANGULAR BRAILLE MAGAZINE TITLED 'NUGGETS' (Book)

1921

PORTRAIT OF ALICE ELLIOTT (Painting)

1970-1979

GUIDE DOG GOLDIE' PHOTOGRAPH (Certificate)

1987

BENT BIG TOES (Artwork)

2023

SPEKE HALL BATHCHAIR (Wheelchair)

About 1900

STARWAYS AIRCRAFT G-APZB PAINTING (Painting)

1964

OIL PAINTING OF ALFIE MERRYWEATHER (Oil painting)

1930

OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDAL (Paralympic medal)

2012

ARTIFICIAL ARM WITH DETACHABLE HAND (Prosthesis)

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