World War I

This is a link to  extracts from our annual reports 1915 to 17 regarding World War 1

This is a link to a brief article on what was the DLI Museum website about Tom Smith a local soldier blinded in WWI

This was the very first piece of research we carried out in the history project

World War II

Evacuation of blind people during World War 2

This is a link to a PDF file from the University of Sussex archive 1987 giving an overview of Evacuation

This is a link to an extract from Hansard on the Evacuation debate 

This is a link to an extract from our annual report in 1940 and what our Chair said about evacuation

This is a link to a page that notes the Breamish Street Workshops for the Blind being used as wartime accommodation

This is a link to an extract from the 1944 Annual Report noting the end of parcels from Bainbridges

St Dunstans now Blind Veterans UK 

David Castleton has written the official history of St  Dunstans  which is a superb read . This is a link to the book on Amazon

This is a link to a PDF file called Spare Your Tears’: Representing and Narrating Blind Bodies in Britain 1915-1925 by Julie Anderson Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester

This is a link to the transcript of an intouch programme on blind veterans from 5th August 2014

This is a link to the St Dunstans cigarettes advert

 

Talking Books

This is a link to a PDF file of an article by Matthew Rubery called From ShellShock to Shellac

Matthew Rubery has now written a full history of the talking book called the Untold Story of the Talking Book . This is a link to the book on Amazon

Guide Dogs 

This is a link to an extract from the Guide Dogs website on the history of Guide Dogs