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Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.
Reference: 24163i- Pictures
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A woman using sign language. Coloured aquatint by W.T. Annis, 1819, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: 1 September 1819Reference: 17946i- Pictures
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Hands spelling out in sign language the words 'Use a condom'; advertisement for safe sex by the British Deaf Association. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 666607i- Pictures
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Queen Victoria using sign language to talk to Mrs B. Tuffield, a deaf mute woman. Process print after H. Ash.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]Reference: 17981i- Pictures
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Abbot de L'Epée, the founder of deaf and dumb education in France, above the French sign language alphabet. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 18013i- Pictures
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The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.
Reference: 18015i- Videos
Silent children, new language.
Date: 1981- Videos
Silent children, new language.
Date: 1997- Pictures
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A vicar using sign language to the congregation at a service at a deaf and dumb church. Wood engraving after A.S. Hartick (?).
Hartick, A. S., active 1892.Date: 25 April 1892Reference: 18031i- Pictures
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A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.
Date: [1865]Reference: 17959i- Books
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Divine songs, attempted in easy language, for the use of children. By I. Watts, D.D. [Three lines from Matthew]
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The Companion: being a selection of the beauties of the most celebrated authors, in the English language. In prose and verse. [Two lines from Akenside]
Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery : Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish; the raising of pastes; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most poinant sauces; with the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for the season; with other a la mode curiosities. Together with the lively illustrations of such necessary figures as are referred to practice. / Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of honour.
May, Robert, 1588-Date: 1660- Pictures
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Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
Date: [24 February 1877]Reference: 17967i- Pictures
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Two men engaged in anal sex, kissing and oral sex with the message 'Safer sex' shown in sign language above; an advertisement for deaf people in Berlin by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra, 199-.
Date: [19]85Reference: 674212i- Archives and manuscripts
Letter to Sicard, unsigned, endorsed in a later hand as being from the Abbé de l'Epée (Charles-Michel de l'Epée, writer on sign-language (1712-1789))
Date: late 18th centuryReference: MS.7612/24Part of: Sicard, Abbé Roch Ambroise Cucurron (1742-1822), teacher of the deaf and dumb- Pictures
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Deaf and dumb people from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb performing plays, sign language, and portraits of staff at the institution. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1884, after H. Morehen.
Morehen, Horace.Date: 15 March 1884Reference: 17971i- Archives and manuscripts
Healing Arts: "Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre" (VHS)
Date: 1996- Books
Language in thinking : selected readings / edited by Parveen Adams.
Date: 1972- Ephemera
Free BSL interpreted events : are you incurably curious? / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2010- Ephemera
Free BSL interpreted events / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2013- Books
Hamilton Bailey's demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery / [Hamilton Bailey].
Bailey, Hamilton, 1894-1961.Date: 1967- Books
Deaf identities, sign languages, and minority social movement politics in modern Japan (1868-2000) / by Karen Nakamura.
Nakamura, Karen.Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
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Hieroglyfic: or, a grammatical introduction to an universal hieroglyfic language; consisting of English signs and voices. With a definition of all the parts of the English, Welsh, Greek, and Latin languages; Some Physical, Metaphysical, and Moral cursory Remarks on the Nature, Properties, and Rights of Men and Things. And Rules and Specimens for composing an Hieroglysic Vocabulary of the Signs or Figures, as well as the Sounds of Things, upon rational and philosophical Principles, and the primitive Meaning of Names. By Row. Jones.
Jones, Rowland, 1722-1774.Date: 1768- Pictures
Two bare-chested men hugging; representing a condom as a preventive against AIDS. Colour lithograph by W. Mudra and M. Steger, 200-.
Date: [between 2000 and 2009?]Reference: 723482i