In late 2025, a discovery was made at the Alpine Club, London. Hidden away in the basement archive at 55 Charlotte Road, amidst ice axes, tents and geological samples, was a huge collection of glass negatives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Taken by some of the most famous names in British mountaineering, these photographs offered a tantalising glimpse into the early days…

Historic Tudor house, Coughton Court in Warwickshire, has launched a brand new exhibition  exploring the Throckmorton family’s story through photography over the last three centuries. The Throckmorton Family: Through the Lens brings together a fascinating collection of photographs charting the lives of the family through the generations, from Sir William Throckmorton (1838-1919)…

The Vernon MacAndrew photographic archive held at Dartmouth Museum has received £36,246 from the National Archives' Archives Revealed fund. The MacAndrew archive was noted on BPH earlier this year. 

In 2025, the museum was donated the Vernon MacAndrew Photographic Archive…

Land & Sea brings together an exceptional group of photographers whose work explores our relationship with landscape, coastline and the natural world. Spanning photography’s earliest experiments to contemporary camera-less practices, the exhibition presents historic and modern works that share a fascination with light, material and place.

Photography remains one of the most rewarding fields in which to build a collection. Alongside editioned prints, this exhibition includes unique…

The Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal (CCA), with the 2027 iteration of the institution’s Photography Research Fellowship Programme. The CCA holds significant holdings of ninteenth century British photography

The 2027 programme foregrounds the CCA and the PMC’s shared research commitments to the…

As audiovisual formats and digital storage technologies continue to evolve, cultural heritage institutions are increasingly responsible for collections that span both legacy digital media and time-based audiovisual carriers. From floppy disks and CD/DVDs to MiniDiscs and tape-based formats, these materials require different, but overlapping, approaches to ensure their long-term…

Shannon Taggart became aware of Spiritualism as a teenager, when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photographer, she began taking pictures where that message was received - Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest Spiritualist community - proceeding to other such communities as England’s…

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy will launch two new exhibitions exploring the connections between photography, astronomy and scientific discovery: Photology: John Herschel, Henry Talbot and Early Photography and The as-yet unseen by contemporary Irish artist Grace Weir.

Photology: John Herschel, Henry Talbot and Early Photography will explore Sir John Herschel’s pivotal role in the development of photography, and his collaboration with photographic pioneer…