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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 […]

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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