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Welcome to the British photographic history blog which was launched at the start of 2009. There are now over 4000 members, in addition to regular readers. These range from museum and gallery curators, photographic academics, students, collectors, dealers and representatives from the photographic press from around the world. The blog provides a forum for news of events and happenings within the British photographic history community. This can include lectures or meetings, exhibition news, jobs, reviews and general news affecting collections of photographic material or individuals within the field. While the focus is on Britain it may, on occasion, include material that is of wider interest from Europe, the United States, 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

Research: Lilliput magazine photographers


12307263479?profile=RESIZE_400x Chris writes...The book I am currently preparing is the first of a new genre for me. Previously I have written on sport but this is a popular culture illustrated magazine called Lilliput (vol 1 (1937) vol 47 (1960). For the photographers section I have it in three parts. First are the Agencies and the people behind them; then photographers by first name and surname;…

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I have recently acquired a daguerrotype stereoview of Scottish provenance. It shows three men round a table on which is an early Brewster stereoscope, a D&S black and white litho view and possibly a daguerrotype stereo, plus some small tools which could be burnishing tools of the gilding trade.

The similarity between the central figure and Wilson's self portraits,…
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Obituary: Gwyn A Nicholls (1939-2023)


Gwyn Nicholls, who has died aged 84 years, was a knowledgeable collector and historian of the stereoscope and stereo photography, who assembled a significant world-class collection of viewers and stereo images.

Gwyn was born on 21 May 1939 and after graduating from the Royal College of Art he worked for the Greater London Council until it was closed by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1986. After this he remained with the residual body helping to transfer and dispose of…

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Research: The Linked Ring


12305833453?profile=RESIZE_400x The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring is the subject of some new work and research by Dick Weindling which he has made freely available. Dick notes:  that Margaret Harker produced the most detailed study in her book The Linked Ring (1979). Using a study of the Link’s records she identified a total of 115 members who are listed in the appendix of the book. I have researched the…

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12305819054?profile=RESIZE_400x First large-scale retrospective devoted to the artist in Paris, the exhibition brings together some one hundred photographs, from her early experiments to her historical and literary compositions, as well as her figurative allegories and an impressive gallery of portraits of her contemporaries.

Few 19th century photographers have attracted as much attention as Julia Margaret…

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12305816867?profile=RESIZE_400x The University of Westminster (a member of the Techne consortium) and the Science Museum Group (SMG) are delighted to announce a call for applicants for a fully funded collaborative doctorial studentship from September 2024, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme funded by Techne.

This PhD will be the first to focus on the user experience of combining photography…

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12305811266?profile=RESIZE_400x Bonhams is offering an important album of photographs of India, Nepal, and British Isles, compiled by Capt. Eugene Clutterbuck Impey and consisting of 94 abumen prints, dating from c1860-65 albumen prints, and with an estimate of £15,000-25,000. The catalogue footnote says: 

PRIZE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ALBUM, INCLUDING IMAGES OF INDIA BY EUGENE CLUTTERBUCK IMPEY,…

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