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Welcome to the British photographic history blog which was launched at the start of 2009. There are now over 4200 members, in addition to regular readers. These range from museum and gallery curators, photographic academics, students, collectors, dealers and representatives from the photographic press from around the world. The blog provides a forum for news of events and happenings within the British photographic history community. This can include lectures or meetings, exhibition news, jobs, reviews and general news affecting collections of photographic material or individuals within the field. While the focus is on Britain it may, on occasion, include material that is of wider interest from Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia.

A summary of the previous week's posts is usually emailed to signed up readers each Monday. 

Dr Michael Pritchard

PS. Thanks to George Eastman House (now George Eastman Museum) and History Today magazine blogs for recommending British Photographic History as one of their own favourite blogs. The Daily Telegraph made BPH one of its photography websites of the week

13561483074?profile=RESIZE_400x The V&A Museum's Photography Centre is partially closed as a new exhibition is installed. Galleries 100 and 101 are closed while a new survey exhibition looking at American photography from its origins to today is installed. They are due to re-open on 15 June 2025. The remainer of the Centre's galleries - the library and contemporary spaces - remain…

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13561439883?profile=RESIZE_400x Francesca Issatt, has been appointed to the role of Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology at the National Science and Media Museum. The role is a one year maternity cover for Ruth Quinn who was appointed in 2022, and the position was previously held by Colin Harding. It was…

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Apologies for the last minute post, but a colleague is hosting a talk on Saturday 24 May on Cambridgeshire's longest running Photographic Studio and the Photographers who worked there- including women photographers Lettice Ramsey and Helen Muspratt. The talk will be held at Huntingdon Library on Princes Street, Huntingdon PE29 3PA, from 1:30PM-3:00pm. Huntingdon train station is just a 10 minute walk from the library, parking is available on Malthouse Close (Princes Street Car Park and RCP…

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13561363292?profile=RESIZE_400x Auction house Lawrences of Crewkerne has an interesting group of fourteen portraits, described as daguerreotypes (*), on offer on the 11 June 2025. All portraits, they show members of the Clayfield-Ireland Family of Brislington, Bristol. They include James Ireland Clayfield-Ireland aged 54, his wife Letitia and twelve of their children. Some of the photographs bear labels of Mr. Callaway,…

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Why are there so few women in the history of photography? Scholarly contributions have highlighted the obstacles that hindered women’s success in photography, as well as the ideological foundations of photographic history that have kept them invisible within dominant narratives. Despite this, the role of women in photography remains under-researched, particularly on those practitioners active between the invention of the medium around 1839 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939. This…

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The Eye of Photography carries a report from François Kirkland noting the passing of Michael Rand who has just died aged 96 years.  Rand was the Art Director and Managing Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine 30 years from 1962. 

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Registration is now open for a one-day, in-person research workshop concerning the landmark British photo-magazine, Picture Post (1938-57). Picture Post was launched in the era of the Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front. Conceived for Hulton Press by Stefan Lorant (a Hungarian editor exiled from Nazi Germany), Picture Post had a transnational staff and a global outlook. It was the leading British example of an international phenomenon – the birth of…

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Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia in partnership with the Marubi National Museum of Photography, with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tirana and the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation of Albania is pleased to announce the Call for Papers "The Impact of Italian Photographers in the Mediterranean Countries during the 19th Century", for the upcoming conference focused on the influence of Italian photographers in Mediterranean countries during the 19th…

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