History of Place – is a three-year HLF funded project which explores the lives of deaf and disabled people through eight historic locations from a medieval monastery to a 70s terraced house whose creation heralded the beginning of the Independent Living Movement. These are now informing three museum exhibitions – one is already live at MShed Bristol, and two more launching this month: a display at the V&A about disabled people and building design, and an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool focused on the School for the Blind, which was founded there in the 1790s. The project is on twitter @H_O_P and has a newsletter which you can sign up to at the top of this page.