Blind Spot

This blog maps my place as a partially-blind academic in a resolutely sighted world. It looks at blindness in history, literature, art, film and society through my out-of-focus gaze.

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

The Sensational Museum

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The Sensational Museum: using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone. Regular readers of this blog will know ...
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Sunday, 10 April 2022

The Louvre: A Museum Accessible to All?

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[This image shows the apparently now defunct Tactile Gallery at the Louvre. On a sign in the left of the image we read ‘Galerie d’étude I : ...
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Saturday, 30 October 2021

The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland: a land of missed opportunities

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The Spanish Gallery is “the UK’s first gallery dedicated to the art, history, and culture of Spain”. It opened on 15 October 2021 in the sm...
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Thursday, 26 August 2021

Smartify at The Bowes Museum

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This week I visited the Bowes Museum in Teeside. It is a museum I last visited as a child. I had fond memories of the grandiose architectur...
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Thursday, 28 January 2021

AHRC Fellowship Annoucement: Inclusive Description for Equality and Access (IDEA)

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I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded one of 10 new Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Equality, Diversity and Inclu...
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Saturday, 8 August 2020

Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse

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Image description: a photo of my standing to the right of a poster for the Donmar Warehouse's production of BLINDNESS. I am smiling...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Audio Description at Royal Holloway

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Image Description: The painting 'Man Proposes, God Disposes' by Sir Edwin Landseer hangs in its lavish golden frame among other...
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Hannah Thompson
I am a Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am interested in representations of the body, more specifically disability. I am particularly interested in blindness and how the sighted and partially sighted and the blind and partially blind relate to each other. Follow me on Twitter @BlindSpotHannah
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