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Blindness: a cultural history

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As far back as the archaeological record takes us, we can find evidence of blind people. But the experiences of those people – and the ways they were seen by others – 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 – from religious ideas and mythical tropes, to Braille and schools for blind children. (Ad) Selina Mills is the author of Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Unseen-Blindness-Selina-Mills/dp/1848856903/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ULR6FUNNHV94&keywords=selina+mills&qid=1687263768&s=books&sprefix=selina+mills%2Cstripbooks%2C56&sr=1-1&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.4

Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History

1:09.4

Magazine and BBC History revealed.

1:17.8

As far back as the archaeological record can take us, we can find evidence of blind people.

1:24.6

But the experiences of those people and the ways that they were seen by others

1:28.9

have always been hugely shaped by the historical context in which they lived.

1:35.3

Writer and broadcaster Selena Mills' new book, Life Unseen, explores the forces that have

1:41.5

impacted the lives of blind people through the centuries.

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