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  • Pictures in the Mind
    BSL | Historical | Oralist oppression | TV-Film

    Pictures in the Mind

    December 25, 2025April 26, 2026

    Joyeux Noël! Pictures in the Mind is a documentary made in 1987 based on Harlan Lane’s ground-breaking book When the Mind Hears – a volume of almost 700 pages (US editions) covering the comprehensive history…

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  • I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony
    BSL | Irony | Miscellaneous | Oralism/Life Articles | Other

    I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony

    September 22, 2025December 1, 2025

    This new image (inspired by ‘1880 That’ and intended as a header for this website) which is a brick wall featuring the words ‘I am deafinitely angry’ – came about as a result of a…

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  • If Sign Language was….
    BSL | Miscellaneous | Other

    If Sign Language was….

    September 16, 2019April 28, 2026

    A brilliant artwork that takes up the entire west side of Cubitt Square at King’s Cross. Its a collaboration between artist Christine Sum Kim, Frank Barnes School and Argent the site’s developer. It must be…

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  • The men who wouldn’t listen…
    By a strange quirk of fate, a certain day in 1876 happened to be the same day two important historical figures made the grade. Both...
  • The Deaf are foreigners in their own country
    This is from a news article in the Independent in September 1989. It had followed soon after the Deaf President Now! campaign at Gallaudet in...
  • Ridicule (1996)
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film that features the Abbé de l’Épée. The film tells the story of the Abbé de Villecourt, played by Bernard Giraudeau....
  • Reality – and the Deaf
    Are humanity’s knowledge and traditions real even? What is true and what’s not? A recent video from Star Talk is interesting because it concerns the...
  • Pictures in the Mind
    Joyeux Noël! Pictures in the Mind is a documentary made in 1987 based on Harlan Lane’s ground-breaking book When the Mind Hears – a volume...

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