A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need itHave you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought...

Why modern and contemporary art—and art conservation—can’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn’t exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photography to film, plastics have shaped every major medium of art. In turn, plastics have revolutionized art conservation, transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators stru...

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as...

WOMEN SOCCER PLAYERS FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO PLAY! A thrilling adventure with the very first heroines of female football! The year is 1922 - the first golden age of the women's game. Bessie Booth and her team of mill working girls in the North of England - The Busy Bees FC - have to battle male prejudice and a devious and ruthless employer who will stop at nothing to prevent them from playing the game they love. Against all the odds they must fight for survival of their beloved team. In a r...