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On this site Blind historian, Fred Reid, addresses his experience of special education sixty years ago, his lifelong campaign for a fairer deal for all blind people, and his personal battle over the stumbling blocks that society puts in their way.
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The Panopticon: a Novel
'Panopticon; or the inspection-house: containing the idea of a new
principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment, in which
persons of any description are to be kept under inspection; and in particular to
penitentiary-houses, prisons, poor-houses, lazarettos, houses of industry,
manufactories, hospitals, work-houses, mad houses, and schools ...'
By Jeremy Bentham Esquire of Lincoln's Inn.
Socialist Sunday Schools in Retrospect
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Portrait of Fred Reid Courtesy of The Leamington Courier