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Tilly Guthrie
@tillyguthrie.bsky.social
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C19 tactile alphabet enthusiast, book/disability history, and otherwise doing folky things. PhD candidate in History
@sheffielduni and WRoCAH
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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!
Table displaying heritage braille equipment, including a Hall Braille Writer, Stainsby, and various hand frames
January 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I was lucky enough to be invited to the @rnib.bsky.social #Braille200 launch event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social this week. Huge congratulations to Dave Williams and the team for putting together such a lovely event, and giving Braille the celebration it deserves.
Crowded room in the British Library Knowledge Centre. A row of tables along the left wall display braille Lego and historical braille artifices. People chat about the items in front of them. This was part of the drinks reception before a panel discussion. Panel of speakers sitting on a stage at the front of an auditorium. Speakers left to right are as follows: Dave Williams, Betsy Griffin, Jane Constance, Emma Tracey, Lord David Blunkett. Table display of artefacts from the RNIB archive, as part of the drinks reception. Items include a Hughes Typograph, manuscript books of minutes and the text of Progress magazine, an embossed book on Gall type, a Braille copy of the Daily Mail, and a selection is writing tools and games. These sit on a pink table cloth, with captions printed in the RNIB font.
November 28, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Hello everyone over here!🦋 For anyone who isn’t already celebrating wildly, this year marks (approx) 200 years since the invention of Braille. Catch me around the UK being enthusiastic about it with @rnib.bsky.social #Braille200 (pictured is an event in Harrogate last month)
Tilly Guthrie (white woman, short dark hair, very cosy green cardigan) is gesticulating, mid talk, in front of an audience in Harrogate library. Co-speaker Alan is sitting next to her, behind a table covered in his collection of vintage braillers
November 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM