Ridicule (1996)
Ridicule is a 1996 French film that features the Abbé de l’Épée. The film tells the story…
Reality – and the Deaf
Are humanity’s knowledge and traditions real even? What is true and what’s not? A recent…
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 historic…
Google Doodles of the Deaf
Doodles featuring the Deaf can easily be counted on a pair of hands! At least one can ascertain ther…
Pictures in the Mind
Joyeux Noël! Pictures in the Mind is a documentary made in 1987 based on Harlan Lane’s ground-…
I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony
This new image (inspired by ‘1880 That’ and intended as a header for this website) which…
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 Dea…
A little known 1950s oralist experiment and its fall-out
This is about the post-war oralist programme aimed at rearing fully conversant hearing speakers out …
If Sign Language was….
A brilliant artwork that takes up the entire west side of Cubitt Square at King’s Cross. Its a…
From Jane Eyre to false truths – an experience of reality
I often wondered about Jane Eyre – the heroine in the TV/films of Charlotte Bronte’s famous no…