In this talk Caroline Bressey will be reflecting on the research she is currently undertaking which is supported by a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship.The work is drawing on new and previous research with photographic archives, to reflect upon the surfacing of the lives of ordinary people. Photographic archives have enabled her to find a way to develop Black and other bodies ‘of colour’ in archives of working people, often in institutions such as asylums and prisons. Although such institutional records do usually record histories of the poor and excluded in forms not of their choosing, they do retain a diversity of English life.
Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
Caroline Bressey
Research Lunch, in person - 26 June 2026, 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Paul Mellon Centre
Free but Book tickets
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