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A ground-breaking programme – backed by National Lottery funding of nearly £1 million – aims to transform the way disability history is represented by museums, address the inequality disabled people face in their workforces, and improve access. More than 20 museums […]
Museums need to take radical action to address the “woeful” under-representation of disabled people in their workforce, a parliamentary event has heard. The call was delivered by Esther Fox, the disabled leader of the Accentuate programme, at a House of Commons […]
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £880, 000 to a three-year project that will uncover disabled people’s history, through examination of eight unique buildings across England. Accentuate’s History of Place project will focus on sites dating from the twelfth century […]