We began analysing and relating to Antonia's story in The History of Disability Workshop

"We wanted to see what she would look like with hair as the illustration of her with the shaved head made her look very institutionalised and ‘different’ from other ladies of the day. We wanted to ‘normalise’ her image and make her more of a real person."

"What if Antonia had a social Media Profile?"

"The crown was because someone said she reminded her of illustrations she’d seen of Nefertiti, so we put the Egyptian style crown on her to see her in a different way from the image we were presented with by the medical profession of the day."

In the final workshop we planned what we wanted to say at the International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

Here's a poem we wrote about Antonia Grandoni at The Brain Charity. The text in Italics is 'found text' from Dr Ireland's book.