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Welcome to the British Photographic History blog (BPH). Launched at the start of 2009 there are now nearly 4500 subscribers. These range from museum and gallery curators, photography and history academics, students, collectors and dealers from around the world. The blog provides a place for details of lectures or events, exhibitions, jobs, reviews and general news affecting photography collections or individuals working in the field, focused on photographic history in the broadest sense. The emphasis is on Britain but BPH will include material that is of wider interest from Europe, the Americas, 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. 

31280390095?profile=RESIZE_400x The latest number of The Classic, a print and digital magazine about classic photography, is now available. The features, of particular relevance to British photography, include a discussion of the Tate's Light and Magic exhibition and interview with its curator Charmaine Toh by Michael Diemar; and a Lost and Found feature which include a piece on the destruction of…

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31280247474?profile=RESIZE_400x An email and social media posts last week from 1854Media, publishers of the British Journal of Photography, announced the suspension of the print edition of the BJP. It will continue to be published digitally.

For those following the steady demise of consumer print media the announcement was perhaps not unexpected and it leaves Amateur Photographer,…

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As is tradition, the Icon Photographic Material Group is closing the year with a Lighting Talks event. We invite colleagues to speak for 5 minutes about a recent project or endeavour related to the field of photograph conservation. The format will be online only, to encourage an international cohort of speakers and attendees. As is customary, there will be time allocated for questions and ponderings after the presentations.The event is open to anyone with an interest in the care…

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Professor Annebella Pollen's exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers and the associated book Whippersnappers: How Children Became Photographers have bene the subject of various radio and press interviews. There are also various forthcming events including

  • a conversation with Hollie Myles-Moffat on Sunday, 1 November at the Bound Art Book Fair, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. See …
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Conservation and rehousing of the Vernon MacAndrew Photographic Archive at Dartmouth Museum is gathering pace, with 750 slides now conserved and rehoused from a collection of approximately 4,500 glass-mounted positives, including some 2,200 in colour, received by donation from Alec and Sue Smith in December 2025.

31278663883?profile=RESIZE_400x Generous grants from The National Archives’ Archives Revealed…

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This half-day online workshop will introduce the range of visual sources held at The National Archives (TNA) which can be used for study of history and material culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These include registered designs, photographs, art, graphic design, architecture and film records, all produced or collected by government…

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31278652499?profile=RESIZE_400x The V&A PhD Placement Scheme offers PhD researchers in the UK and internationally the chance to gain professional experience outside a university setting. Placements are designed by V&A staff across collections departments, archives, the National Art Library, research, and collections care and access. Through them, researchers contribute to the V&A’s strategic objectives.…

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Talbot Correspondence update


Dear Users of the Talbot Correspondence, 

If you are currently using the Letters, you may have noticed that we have been affected by the recent vulnerabilities found in php. Luckily, for the last two years we have been porting letters to Epsilon, the Nineteenth Century letters project at https://epsilon.ac.uk/

You will find at Epsilon the full text of all but about 500 letters in the Talbot Correspondence, plus so much more. Hopefully this…

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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history ranging from news, events, exhibitions, museums, and people, to publications and jobs. BPH is intended to be collaborative so do add your own posts. 

 

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