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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- Videos
Silent children, new language.
Date: 1981- Videos
Silent children, new language.
Date: 1997- 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- 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- 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- 3-D Objects
Badge: BSL Badge , Pin Badge, Pin Badge Button, Awareness Badge, Hard Of Hearing, Lip Read, British Sign Language
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Signing the body poetic : essays on American Sign Language literature / H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, editors ; with a foreword by William C. Stokoe and a preface by W.J.T. Mitchell.
Date: [2006], ©2006- 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- Books
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The peculiar use and signification of certain words in the Latin tongue: or, a collection of observations, Consisting of English Sentences Translated from the truest Copies of the Purest Latin Writers, and principally intended to be translated back again into that Language. Usui & Latini & Anglici sermonis studiosae juventutis. By William Willymott A. Fellow of King's College in Cambridge.
Willymott, William, -1737.Date: 1704- 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- 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 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- Books
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An agreeable criticism, of the City of Paris and the French; giving an account of their present state and condition: their Virtues and Vices. Their Academies. Their Dress, Devotion, Levity. Their Women. Their Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions. Their Theatres. Their Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers. Their Lawyers, Pick-Pockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of Things. Their Horses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection. Their Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affectation, Labour. Taverns, Climate, Trades-People, Fruit. House-Rent. Taylors. Brokers. Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, &c. Political Calculations of the number of Houses, Consumption of Food, &c.
French gentleman.Date: 1706- Books
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The english pleader, being a select collection of various precedents of declarations on actions brought in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in Case, Debt, Covenant, Trespass, Trespass and Assault, Ejeament, Replevin, Prohibition, &c. Taken from the Rolls in the Treasury of the said Courts, and Forms settled by Counsel and Special Pleaders, since the Commencement of the Act of Parliament for the Laws being in the English Language, and is the only Book approv'd of for Authentick Precedents. To which are added The Forms of Pleas and Issues both General and Special, with Replications thereto: As Also Judgments in both Courts on the several Actions: And likewise Forms and Precedents of Recoveries and Concords of Fines with the Method of suffering and passing the same. By a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn.Date: 1738- Books
Talking heads : the neuroscience of language / Gianfranco Denes.
Denes, G.Date: 2011- Books
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A new version of the Song of Solomon, into common metre. Together with a new edition of a paraphrase, or large explicatory poem upon the same book. Wherein the mutual Love of Christ and his Church, contained in that Old Testament Song, is imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and adapted to the Gospel Dispensation. To which is subjoined, The ten Plagues of Egypt named and justify'd, The ten Commands abridg'd and versify'd. By Ralph Erskine, M. A. Minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kalisch-Kersley
Date: 1807-1962Reference: MS.8897- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- 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- Books
Hamilton Bailey's demonstrations of physical signs in clinical surgery / [Hamilton Bailey].
Bailey, Hamilton, 1894-1961.Date: 1967