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A funded PhD opportunity to research photography and train travel! 📸

Funded PhD klaxon! This PhD will be the first to explore the user experience of combining photography and train in Britain 1880s-1930s by bringing the collections of the National Railway Museum and National Science and Media Museum into conversation with one other. Please share widely!

Super interesting stuff!

The photographer, collector and publisher Lukas Birk has recently launched an excellent new podcast dedicated to vernacular photos, archives and photobooks. The first episodes include Lucy Sante, Joachim Schmid and me! In all the usual podcast places: youtube.com/@ThePhotoVault…

THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS, 17-18 June 2024 #PHRC24 | Call for Papers for our annual conference is now! The submission deadline is 2 February 2024. Follow the link for more information photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confere… #photography #culture #history

I’m very pleased to introduce you to my new book, Art without Frontiers. Over 400 pages and over 300 illustrations, it tells the story of how British Council has used visual arts for international cultural relations in an ever-changing world. (1/4)

Check this out!!

Brighton has long been a place for love and romance, courtship and flirtation, and I’ve got the evidence to prove it! Come and hear me talk about the sauce on the backs of Edwardian postcards over a glass of wine West Pier Trust on Thursday 28th March, 6pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/answers-on-t…

An amazing funded PhD opportunity!

Special issue on "The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial" now out! You can read my introduction open access here: eshph.org/journal/photor…

Some photo wallet stuff: a lovely catalogue from my publisher Four Corners Books showing More than a Snapshot has a cat fan! Plus a new wallet from susan sainsbury on which her Auntie Dot wrote a poem about the photos: ‘not so bad / could be better / have seen worse / but not often’

From the beginning of May we will be open on Thursdays as well as Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10.30am-5pm. Please email [email protected] in advance of your visit. We are open to all but please make an appointment ahead of your visit. See you soon?📚🦩🦒🦀🐢🐠

The deadline is next week!

Help us celebrate #LondonHistoryDay by contributing to ZSL's History Hive. 2026 will mark two centuries of ZSL. We are proud of our extraordinary story, and our History Hive project will help us tell it: zsl.org/historyhive

All are welcome to this - online or in person (in the back room of a nice Brighton pub). The organiser will be asking me ten questions on the theme, but it is an informal discussion to which all can contribute.

A fab new article on how comics were used to promote photography to children! Read, read, read!

Online talk diary date: Tuesday 10th September 2024 (1900 UK time). 'Christina Broom: Britain's first female press photographer' with Anna Sparham Details and book tickets ... events.rps.org/en/christina-b…

I'm so happy to see the pioneering photojournalist Christina Broom recognised with a blue plaque! 📷 bbc.com/news/articles/…