The National Science and Media Museum reopened to the public on Wednesday, 8 January 2025 and followed this soft launch with a day of events and activities on Saturday, the 11th. The re-opening was timed to coincide with the offical launch of Bradford's year as UK City of Culture. …

Currently for sale on eBay is what the vendor believes may well be the earliest surviving piece of Daguerreian jewellery, a silver medallion, which measures c. 83 mm. x 63 mm. The images are the copyright of the vendor Robert Drapkin and are reproduced here with his kind permission.

According to the inscription the medallion was presented to Brother John Birch in open lodge on 22^nd December 1840. It was intended “as a tribute of respect and to testify the high sense they…

NOW FILMING explores the fascinating story of the Workers Film and Photo League (WFPL). The WFPL employed the camera as 'a weapon in the struggle' to represent working-class people’s lives and their campaigns against poverty, exploitation, and the rise of fascism. Bringing together newly discovered archival material, workers’ film newsreels, photographs and agitprop, this exhibition focuses on this unexplored moment of cultural resistance during the social conflicts of 1930s…

In 2023 the Janette Rosing English photography collection was allocated to Historical England under the government's Acceptance in Lieu scheme. During the same year a collection of material relating to Julia Margaret Cameron was also…

A collection of over 7,000 historical photographs of England compiled by Janette Rosing (1942–2021) has been transferred to Historic England under the government Acceptance in Lieu scheme. A previous tranche of Rosing's collection of Cornish photographs was passed to Kresen Kernow…

The latest issue of the Science Museum Journal which has just been published includes several papers of photographic interest. Christine Ferguson looks at, Power at play in paranormal history.The contested object biography of the Cottingley Fairy artefacts in which she takes a fresh look at the Cottingley Fairies hoax;  Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections makes use of the…

The French Ministry of Culture has announced plans to celebrate the bicentenary of photography over 2026-2027. Mrs Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, called for a great, popular and festive celebration of the bicentenary of photography throughout France, to honour the invention and photographic heritage for more than a year. A press conference in the spring will unveil the highlights and projects that will make the bicentenary of photography a unique event for everyone.

Frenchman…

The Studies Gallery in Edinburgh will open the exhibition John Thomson in China on 29 January, bringing Thomson's photographs back to the city of his birth. A series of talks and an evening reception are being held on 10 February, including a walk through with curator Betty Yao. 

Thomson's birthplace in Brighton Street, Edinburgh, was commemorated in 2021 with a heritage plaque. …