Tilly Guthrie

Q&A: How Braille Nails is tackling a blind spot in beauty inclusivity The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and THE TEN SPOT beauty bars have announced Braille Nails, a national initiative that brings Braille into nail salons to address a gap in beauty in...

#BrailleLiteracyMonth meets beauty in the #Braille Nails campaign from @cnibfoundation.bsky.social and The Ten Spot, which aims to spark conversation about #accessibility and #inclusion. 💅 #BlindNewWorld

(Story via Cosmetics Design ⬇️)

This was a real delight to be a part of. Thank you to the organisers for putting on possibly the perfect interdisciplinary conference!? I look forward to seeing what the project does next.

Portrait engraving of a man seated, holding a pencil and notebook. He wears a suit with a high collar and has sideburns. In the background is a framed painting of a ship at sea.

🌎 What happens when a travel writer navigates the world through touch?

This month’s blog explores the journeys of James Holman, the self-described ‘Blind Traveller’, and how his haptic encounters challenged the visual conventions of travel writing.

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YouTube video by Frances Gentle More Braille: More Empowerment - Voices Advancing Braille Worldwide

More Braille: More Empowerment. The official launch of the global braille literacy campaign this morning was such an exciting and hopeful event. For more info on the campaign, the ICEVI have put together this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6u...
#WorldBrailleDay #Braille

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Monument to Louis Braille in Coupvray, France. This imposing pillar is topped by a bust of Braille, and below is a frieze in bronze of a child reading a sheet of braille text, held by an adult sitting next to them. The image also features a braille slate and below is the text: ‘A L. Braille | Les Aveugles Reconnaissants’

Happy 217th birthday to the big man!🥳 The ICEVI is asking us to contribute a candle for Louis’ birthday cake, as part of their (super important) Global Braille Literacy campaign. Donate if you can! #WorldBrailleDay #Braille #DisHist

200 years later and still going strong! Braille isn't just "old tech"—it's a vital tool for literacy and independence that works even when the Wi-Fi doesn't. Happy #WorldBrailleDay!

The Disability History report is out! #DisHist

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP

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I'll be helping out here - nice educational half term activity!

Thanks Oli! Once again sneaking braille into everything I do… #Braille200 #DisHist

The organisers of the UKDHHH outdid themselves today - what a brilliant day of talks, and a masterclass in accessibility

Join us on Wednesday for a day filled with #DisHist!

New experiences at their fingertips — Harvard Gazette Course on tactile reading shows students “Why Braille Matters.”

A #blind student and her professor at @harvard.edu created "Why #Braille Matters," a first-of-its-kind course to explore the history, theory and practice of tactile writing systems used by #VisuallyImpaired people. #BlindNewWorld

(Story via Harvard Gazette ⬇️)

The presentation at the Disability Collections Forum today was from Tilly… | Philip Milnes-Smith (archivist, educator, advocate) The presentation at the Disability Collections Forum today was from Tilly Guthrie, a doctoral student at Sheffield who is looking at the British history of embossed scripts for blind readers and write...

Great discussion this morning with the Disability Collections Forum on preserving embossed texts. A timely reminder of the importance of Braille heritage in the face of cuts to transcription (more on the campaign against it here: saveourbraille.wordpress.com) #DisHist #Braille200

Over a thousand people have signed an open letter asking the RNIB to #SaveOurBraille! Please consider signing and sharing. We shouldn't even have to ask the UK's leading blindness charity to prioritise braille, but here we are.

History UK Disability and History Project The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

📣Call for participants: History UK is continuing its focus groups on disability and history in HE in April. Any students/staff with experience in teaching disability history OR studying history with a disability, come and talk to us! #DisabilityHistory #DisHist
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Stop disability benefit cuts

You can email your MP using our template to tell them how you feel about these changes here: action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/...

We're a signatory to a letter to the Chancellor published today which urges her to think again about cuts to disability benefits.

Read the full letter here organised by our friends at Scope: rnib.in/cost-of-cuts 1/4

UK Disability History and Heritage Hub on Strikingly

If you're new to the Hub, then you can find out more about us and sign up to our mailing lists on our website: #DisHist

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This Tuesday! I will be chatting to the one and only Dave Williams about tactile literacy over at the Braillists Foundation. Sounds like your perfect Tuesday evening? Me too. #Braille200

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We had a lovely visit to the Mitchell Library today, as part of our Braille and Beyond tour to celebrate #Braille200!

We'd love to thank Glasgow Libraries for their support in organising the event!

For more information about the Braille and Beyond Tour, visit our website: bit.ly/3E7Ro7c

Dave Williams, RNIB’s Inclusive Design Ambassador, wearing an RNIB T-shirt presenting at a podium with a laptop and a microphone in a classroom setting

View of Mitchell Library in Glasgow, featuring its prominent green dome, captured from across the street with passing vehicles

Mitchell Library in Glasgow will host a special event next week celebrating the importance of braille and tactile literacy.

@rnib.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social

#sightloss #glasgow #networking

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View of Mitchell Library in Glasgow, featuring its prominent green dome, captured from across the street with passing vehicles.

We're at the Mitchell Library on Tuesday to celebrate 200 years of braille!

The event has been organised in partnership with Glasgow Libraries and is open to all, and promises a day of engaging activities and informative talks!

More info can be found here: bit.ly/3E7Ro7c

Braille 200: Braille and Beyond — Glasgow Life Find out how braille has evolved.

Next stop on the #Braille200 tour: the Mitchell Library. Glasgow pals, come and get your Braille fix with me on Tuesday next week! @rnib.bsky.social @rnibscotland.bsky.social
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Blind Writing Before Braille - Cultures of Disability Through the letters of Charles Cook, Tilly Guthrie explores what early forms of braille can tell us about the experience of blindness in the Victorian era.

That moment when you find exactly what you were hoping for in the archive...
Here's a blog post I wrote on The Most Exciting letter in Liverpool Record Office (I'm not at all biased). Thanks to Cultures of Disability for hosting this. culturesofdisability.mmu.ac.uk/blind-writin... #DisabilityHistory

Table displaying heritage braille equipment, including a Hall Braille Writer, Stainsby, and various hand frames

Happy #WorldBrailleDay one and all! Delighted to be celebrating at the Braillists conference in Worcester today, and hearing about #Braille200 on the radio as we drove down!

So many interesting events on 4 Jan for #WorldBrailleDay The Braillists Foundation have added a few ♿️
➡️The Braille You Need, When You Need It: 7:30PM
➡️ Braille & Breakfast from Sight & Sound 9:30 AM
➡️ UKAAF event 1:00 PM
➡️ Braille Matters Extravaganza 6:00 PM GMT
https://www.braillists.org

"Who is Louis Braille?" in text with a visual representation of the braille above, separated by a pink line. The text "Remember - braille is read by touch, this is just a visual representation" and the Braille 200 logo is in the corner, with a visual representation of braille, and RNIB and EBU logos.

🧵“Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power” – Louis Braille

Ahead of #WorldBrailleDay, which marks the anniversary of Louis Braille’s birthday, here’s a snapshot of the pioneer behind the tactile code.

‘We’d be stuck’: alarm as UK’s last braille typewriter repairer ponders retirement Alan Thorpe is Britain’s last certified fixer of the Perkins, a machine vital for teaching blind children to read and write

Alan's house is the actual real life Brailler Wonderland. Anyone looking for a mechanical apprenticeship would be lucky to work with him and carry on this (extremely!) important work. #Braille #WorldBrailleDay
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