Stories
- Article
The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
- Article
Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
- Article
Wonder years
The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
Catalogue
- Books
Sign language archaeology : understanding the historical roots of American sign language / Ted Supalla and Patricia Clark.
Supalla, TedDate: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Healing Arts: "Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre" (VHS)
Date: 1996- Books
British sign language / Margaret Deuchar.
Deuchar, M. (Margaret)Date: 1984- Books
- Online
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
- Online
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]
Events
- Gallery tour
British Sign Language tour of Teeth
Online
Past
Part of Access Tours and Discussions
- British Sign Language
- Gallery tour
British Sign Language tour of Ayurvedic Man
Gallery 2
Past
Part of Access Tours and Discussions
- British Sign Language
- Event
Performance by Goldie Puricelli
Gallery 1
Past
Part of Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances