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Million-pound programme could transform how museums treat disability history

By John Pring on 28th October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Million-pound programme could transform how museums treat disability history
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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 […]

Project highlights need for museums to take ‘radical’ action on disability employment

By John Pring on 17th January 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Project highlights need for museums to take ‘radical’ action on disability employment
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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 […]

‘Unique history’ of disability arts movement set for preservation, thanks to £850K funding

By John Pring on 26th June 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Unique history’ of disability arts movement set for preservation, thanks to £850K funding
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The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded more than £850, 000 to a project that will create a digital archive of the 40-year history of the disability arts movement. The Shape Arts project will catalogue more than 1,000 pieces of artwork, […]

History project will dig deep into the past, thanks to Lottery cash

By John Pring on 26th June 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

History project will dig deep into the past, thanks to Lottery cash
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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 […]

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