{"id":26637,"date":"2023-07-14T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=235832"},"modified":"2023-07-14T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:11:36","slug":"blindness-a-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/blindness-a-cultural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Blindness: a cultural history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selina Mills explores the forces that have affected the lives of blind people through the centuries \u2013 from religious ideas and mythical tropes, to Braille and schools for blind children <\/p>

By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 14 July 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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As far back as the archaeological record takes us, we can find evidence of blind people. But the experiences of those people \u2013 and the ways they were seen by others \u2013 have always been hugely shaped by the historical context they lived in. Writer and broadcaster Selina Mills joins Ellie Cawthorne to explore the forces that have affected the lives of blind people through the centuries \u2013 from religious ideas and mythical tropes, to Braille and schools for blind children.<\/p>\n\n

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Selina Mills is the author of Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness<\/em> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n