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- ↑ "Closing your eyes to art may help you to see". Hampstead and Highgate. 4 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ↑ "National BlindArt Collection moves into Royal National College for the Blind". Culture24. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
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