The first of five lottery funded heritage project themed videos, entitled ‘A Deaf perspective of heritage starts at home’. All five videos consist of edited one-to-one interviews with several Welsh Deaf people, recorded in 2021, at Deaf Hub Wales, Cardiff Deaf Centre, 163 Newport Road, Cardiff. Some interviews were held via Zoom due to the lockdown brought on through Covid-19. The names of all interviewees appear on screen as each one is interviewed. All use British Sign Language (BSL) in the interviews, and shortly will have English closed captions added.

The first video is interviewees’ reflection on their experiences of their education, hence the title: Deaf Education. Given that Deaf schools in Wales no longer exist these videos give a rich insight into Deaf people’s school lives during their childhood years, including the residential Deaf school in Llandrindod Wells. There are also some clips of Deaf adults who attended mainstream schools. The period in question spans from the 1940’s to the 1990’s.