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Blindness: Resources/Further Reading

[Make sure you pop back, because this will be updated regularly - any suggestions for additions email me]
SOCIAL/CULTURAL HISTORY​ & MEMOIRS
Primary Texts
​Anon, ‘Blind Guy Fawkes’, All the Year Round​, 417, new series, (25 Nov, 1876), pp 255 – 258.​ Access HERE
Secondary Texts
Leland, A. The Country of the Blind, (2023, Random House Large Print)
Mills, S. Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness, (2023, Bloomsbury Academic)
Barasch, M. Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought, 1st Ed (2001, Routledge) 
Godin, L. M. There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness, (2021, New York: Pantheon Books)
Koestler, F. A. The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States, (1976, 2004, AFB Press)
Links to Articles
BBC: How Blind Victorians Campaigned for Inclusive Education (David Turner, 1 Oct 2014) 

ART/  ART HISTORY​/ MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Secondary Texts
Douglas, G. '“Pity the blind”? Hidden stories of empowerment and inclusion in John Everett Millais's The Blind Girl
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               (1856)', Midlands Arts Papers Special Issue: Inclusion, Disability and Access in the Arts (2019/20) [Access HERE]
Kleege, G. More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, (2018, Oxford University Press.)
Hayhoe, S. Arts, culture and blindness: studies of blind students in the visual arts. (2008, Cambria Press, Youngstown, USA)
Lanigan, D. T. 'The Blind Basket-Maker with his First Child by Michael Frederick Halliday' Victorian Web Online [Access HERE]


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