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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ROSIE COOPER, BILL COOPER AND PRINCESS DIANA (Photograph)

1992-1993

MOL.2023.25.37

ID: Rosie Cooper, wearing her lord mayoral chain, stands between her father, on the left, and Princess Diana of Wales on the right. Her father is signing, and Rosie is interpreting the conversation for them as they speak.Rosie Cooper has dedicated much of her career to advocating for D/deaf communities across Merseyside and West Lancashire.Whilst...

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Rights information: Courtesy of Museum of Liverpool

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ID: Rosie Cooper, wearing her lord mayoral chain, stands between her father, on the left, and Princess Diana of Wales on the right. Her father is signing, and Rosie is interpreting the conversation for them as they speak.

Rosie Cooper has dedicated much of her career to advocating for D/deaf communities across Merseyside and West Lancashire.

Whilst serving as Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1992-1993, she and her father, Bill, pictured beside her, met with Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was patron of the British Deaf Association from 1983 onwards, an organisation that Rosie has supported and successfully campaigned alongside for many years.

Here, Rosie can be seen interpreting for her father, who was Deaf, and for Diana, as they have a conversation.

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The Curating for Change project is running eight Fellowships over 18 months and eight Traineeships over 40 days based across 20 partner museums. Learn more about our Fellows and Trainees here.

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