In the UK, Disability History Month runs from 16 November – 16 December annually. It’s an important initiative, helping to highlight disabled people and their…
5 July 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the NHS. In 1948, this was a radical rethinking of healthcare provision, making it free at the…
One of the great things about this project is that it takes us in all sorts of unexpected directions. That includes the research and topics…
In this guest post, Louise Bell reflects on her visit to the ‘On Track for Change’ exhibition at Head of Steam, earlier this year. The…
In another one of those fortuitous encounters – in this case, virtually, on Twitter – we ended up in contact with the author of today’s…
We’re delighted to feature this blog post from a team at the Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum. It focuses on a topic of…
As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
For this week’s post, we’re delighted to have another contribution from Helen Ford, the project co-lead at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. One…
We’re delighted to feature this guest post, from Rebecca Wynter, one of the team working on the excellent ‘Forged by Fire’ project, looking at burns…