This year marks 110 years since Britain declared war on Germany and the start of the First World War. To mark the anniversary, Blenheim Palace has revealed it has a special album of letters, photographs and entries from when the UNESCO World Heritage Site was used as a hospital, between autumn 1914 and May 1915.

The 9th Duke of Marlborough opened up his home for use as a convalescence hospital in the early months of World War One; it was run by Sister Amy Munn. In the hospital album,…

Kenneth Grange who has died just a few days after his 95th birthday was one of Britain's most significant postwar industrial designers. For thirty years he was design consultant for Kodak Limited developing cameras and a range of other products during the 1950s-1980s. These included the Kodak Instamatic 33, the Brownie Vecta, and Kodak Brownie 44A and 44B, Pocket Instamatic cameras, and the Kodascope 40 projector. The Brownie 44A, Kodaslide 40 and Vecta won Design Centre Awards in 1960, 1961…

Ben Harman, formerly Director of Edinburgh's Stills Gallery has been appointed to the role of Senior Curator (Photography) at National Galleries Scotland, based in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. The role was was…

Join Philippe Garner, former Christie's and Sotheby's auctioneer, and photography expert, and Alessandro Nasini, Senior Curator of Photographs and exhibition curator of Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, as they discuss how photography became accepted as fine art.

The discussion will be followed by an opportunity for guests to view the exhibition and your ticket will also include a glass of wine or soft drink to enjoy while you explore the gallery.

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The Bradford Telegraph and Argus newspaper has reported that the National Science and Media Museum will be re-opening to the public in January, in time for Bradford's 2025 year of culture. The museum closed in June 2023 and re-opening had been delayed until summer 2025 after some unforeseen major structural issues were uncovered. The museum will open with two major new £6…

The forthcoming Bristol Photo Festival features a number of exhibitions that use archival material in its own right or to inform contemporary practice. Of particular note is the exhibition: Herbert Shergold: Now Keep Quite Still. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Shergold operated a commercial photography studio in Bristol to create highly stylised portraits of actors as…

Over six weeks, this practical course explores what it means to archive collections today – working with physical and/or digital material. Course leader Kathryn Tollervey starts by exploring the need for an archive and who it is for. Then we look at guidelines on cataloguing and metadata, as well as the processes of digitisation and preservation for both digital and physical material. We discuss what digital solutions are best for different types of collections. Throughout the course we…

Photography Database is a new implementation and major extension of work done by editors Andrew Eskind and Greg Drake while at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, beginning in the 1980s.  It provides basic factual information about more than 100,000 photographers, as well as public photographic collections, commercial galleries, photographic exhibitions, and citations to the many published sources used to compile the data. The scope is international, and the time frame runs from the…