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• Bricks, Hands, and History: Artists reclaim deaf identity at the Wellcome Collection

  29-04-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition opens with a housing brick with the date 1880 inscribed on it — a repudiation of a notorious education conference in 1880 that arguably set back education for deaf people for several decades.The Milan Conference gathered educators from around the world to debate the merits of oral education vs sign language for deaf people and, somewhat biased in its makeup, voted to discourage the use of sign language.
  Now largely seen as a bad mistake, and two artists, Christine Sun Kim and
  
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• House of Secrets: WWII espionage site in north London to open as a museum in 2026

  29-04-2025 11:07 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new WWII museum at north London’s Trent Park has announced that Giuseppe Albano MBE will lead the museum as it prepares to open next year.
  Trent Park House in 2005 – photo by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0
  Trent Park House is one of England’s great country houses, remodelled by Sir Philip Sassoon in the 1920s and home to World War Two ‘Secret Listeners’ whose operations helped turn the tide of war.
  Today, Trent Park is recognised by Historic England as being of
  
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• Pedals over petrol: Cycling now dominates peak-hour traffic in the City of London

  29-04-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are now nearly twice as many cyclists in the City of London as there are private cars, showing the continuing rise of the cyclist on London’s streets.Official counts by the City of London taken in October 2024 saw a record 139,000 people cycling a day across 30 locations,  up 50,000 from 89,000 in 2022.
  There are now nearly twice as many cycles as cars on City streets during the day, and people cycling now make up 56% of all traffic in the peak commuting hours. Cycling levels ha
  
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• Historic lift shafts brought back to life as Knightsbridge tube station becomes accessible

  29-04-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Nearly a decade after plans were first announced, Knightsbridge tube station is finally step-free from street to platform after a long-delayed set of lifts opened.The ability to add lifts to the station was thanks in part to a large above-ground redevelopment and the fact that a set of old lift shafts from the days before escalators still existed at the station. When the station opened in 1906, it had two entrances, one of which was around the back of the busy Bromton Road. That entrance was clo
  
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