In August 1976, workers at the Grunwick Film Processing Factories in the London Borough of Brent went on strike due to unfair working conditions. A month later, on the 1st of October 1976, 400 people marched from Cobbold Road to Chapter Road in support of the Grunwick Strike. This mass act of solidarity signalled that the strike was beginning to become a monumental movement in Trade Union and Labour History. The picketing was so significant that by the end of October 1976, the police…

Following on from two previous tours the art historian Aneela de Soysa has arranged a further 14-day tour of Sri Lanka with a focus on Julia Margaret Cameron's final years in the country. Julia Margaret Cameron  was one of the most influential photographers of her nineteenth century and spent the last four years of her life in Ceylon. In 1875, aged 60, she and her husband Charles, then…

The first memorial in Asia to photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is nearing completion in Mavelikara, Kerala, India, in time for the bicentennial of the earliest surviving photograph from c.1826-27. The memorial in Mavelikara seeks to honour Niépce’s scientific curiosity, creativity and contribution to visual culture. It is intended not only as a commemorative monument, but a centre for learning, research and public engagement with the history of photography.…

Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, has published a paper on Ann Cooke, the photographer working 1844 and 1857, mainly in KIngston-on-Hull. Cooke has been widely recognised as an early female photographer working independently. She was enumerated in the 1851 census as the sole woman 'phootgraphic artst' although as research by the same author has…

A series of events is being held across September, October and November to engage with and reframe acess to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) historic medical photograph collection. In 2024, the Archives Service was awarded funding from The National…

This hybrid symposium looks at photographic clubs and societies from a global perspective and follows on from a workshop held at Birkbeck in 2023. Assessing amateur photographic communities as a phenomenon is more urgent than ever because many of these minor groups were poorly documented at the time, and the majority of their collections have been broken up, dispersed, or lost. These…

On 30 October the British Library will open a major exhibition exploring the life and work of the bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie. Marking fifty years since her death, the exhibition will examine not only the origins of iconic fictional creations like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple but will also go behind the characters and…

Historic England’s website which displays images from its archive and its Aerial Photo Explorer service is partly offline as a third-party supplier has ceased trading and entered administration. Historic England (HE) has advised users that it will be displaying preview versions of its images but that ‘it may take several weeks to make available the full image set due to the volume of…