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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. 

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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31277303061?profile=RESIZE_400x Julia Winckler presents a contextual biography of Austrian-British émigré photographer Wolf Suschitzky and discusses his photographic legacy, providing new insights into the photographer’s extensive visual archive (at the FOTOHOF>archiv in Salzburg). Suschitzky’s life extended across a period of enormous political, social and cultural upheaval and the presentation foregrounds the…

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The Liszt Institute is hosting an exhibition featuring a a new selection of works by Czech-born British photojournalist, John Sadovy (1925-2010) showing the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Sadovy was on assignment to cover the events of the revolution by Life magazine as a freelance photojournalist in Budapest. Having spent only four days in Hungary between the 29 October and the 1 November, primarily in Budapest and also at the Hungarian-Austrian border, he produced nearly 700…

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To celebrate the 2026 Photography Book Awards, KKF is delighted to be presenting our annual photobook symposium in partnership with the V&A Museum. The programme includes presentations by prizewinner Sasha Kurmaz, shortlisted artist Janet Delaney and Lewis Chaplin (founder of publisher Loose Joints), who designed and published Hoda Afshar’s book ‘The Fold’.

Varied in topic, geography and style, the…
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