Blindness and the Blitz: The Unseen War is an oral history project that captures the experiences and emotions of blind and partially sighted men, women and children in London during World War 2 in a series of powerful, personal interviews.
These interviews capture this little documented part of our national heritage before it is lost forever. Our sincere thanks to those who gave their time so willingly.
TAFN is grateful to Action Trust for the Blind for donating a copy of this project. We used it to present a realtime event to blind & V I people on our VIP communicator server, and two of the voices on the disk are TAFN members, the late Bill Cox and the living and well John Young, now our oldest member at 91!
It's our privilege to host this project online, & we're now planning to it further forward into the future... See below for details.
"Blindness and the Blitz: The Unseen War" consists of 34 audio tracks here to listen to, with a total listening time of around 80 minutes.
Listen to "Blindness and the Blitz: The Unseen War" in streaming M3U format
Listen to the individual tracks, by number.
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TRACKS 1 to 12 |
TRACKS 13 to 24 |
TRACKS 25 to 34 |
Download Blindness In the Blitz: The Unseen War in a zip file (90Mb approx)
Following a successful online presentation of this project with discussion and feedback on the TAFN communicator server in November 2011, we received a number of war memories from our members & are now seeking new input to help the development of this page. Are YOU a blind or visually impaired person who has memories of World War 2 that you'd be willing to share with others? If so then please email us with details.
Blindness and the Blitz: The Unseen War is copyright Action Trust for the Blind 2007 and was partly funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The CD was distributed to UK schools and libraries as an educational tool and TAFN - The Accessible Friends Network, a completely independent charity run by and for blind people, is proud to be hosting it online.
All rights reserved and no unauthorised duplication of this page and/or it's audio contents, is permitted. Enquiries for non-profit usage welcome.
This new "Unseen War" page is copyright TAFN - The Accessible Friends Network and it's individual members 2011. All rights reserved. UK registered charity No 1108043.
Please re-visit this page soon, as we'll be adding more content.