From the vaults

Read our regular updates about interesting objects and artefacts we've found in the vaults at RNIB's Heritage Services. These objects document the story of blind and partially sighted people's culture and history throughout the years.

Our latest discoveries

RNIB vintage collection box

Here's a collection box for RNIB, from around 1960s-70s, based on the saucy postcard genre of comedy. An amusing item from times past...we wouldn't do things like this these days!

The Joy of Books

Peek inside the Joy of Books - a small, red booklet from the 1930s, illustrating the work involved in creating braille books.

The cube

Not Philip Schofield's quiz show of the same name! Find out about the braille cube and how it was used as a teaching aid.

Handmade braille books

This photograph from our archive, dating back to the 1950s, shows how braille books were stitched together by hand!

Last updated: 13 May 2013

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