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Alison Hess

@drhesslee.bsky.social

Lecturer in Museum Studies, Uni of Westminster. Collections, storerooms, storytelling enthusiast.

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I am delighted to share this fully funded PhD on 'The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present'. An AHRC CDP with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall, and @ MuseumoftheHome Marina Maniadaki, Louis Platman. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

22.03.2024 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Photographs from article discussing how to take snapshots from a moving train. Printed in 1903 in the journal Amateur Photographer.

Photographs from article discussing how to take snapshots from a moving train. Printed in 1903 in the journal Amateur Photographer.

PhD 🚨! Interested in finding out how camera & train interactions shaped ideas of leisure and heritage in Britain 1880s-1930s? Apply for this CDA with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social Oliver Betts & Pippa Catterral! Applications deadline: 05 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEK361/p...

08.12.2023 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ techne @ university of Westminster @ LTM Working on: Pride, Passengers and Personnel: Collecting LGBTQ+ Experiences in and on London’s Transport in the 1970s and 1980s. Applications open now!

27.11.2023 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@TECHNEDTP CDA funding: "Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s–1930s"
@UniWestminster in collaboration with @MediaMuseum and @RailwayMuseum
Applications deadline: 05 January 2024.
Please share widely! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

27.11.2023 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Techne CDA with the London Transport Museum. Applications open: www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

27.11.2023 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Been a bit overwhelmed about what to post on a brand new social media site. So how bout a fake custard cream giving a multisensory experience of fern fronds at Chelsea Physic Garden? Such a fun class with my MA students πŸ˜„

11.11.2023 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DARKROOM DEVELOPMENT: IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC DARKROOM CONFERENCE 9/10/2023 Jo Gane, Darkroom at BCU (Birmingham City University) Writer and PhD researcher, Alice Mercier, reports on β€œIn the Photographic Darkroom”, a conference organised by Dr Sara Do…

My PhD student Alice Mercier wronte an excellent review of β€œIn the Photographic Darkroomβ€œ, the conference that I convened back in June on the largely overlooked space of the darkroom and its past, present and future: cream.ac.uk/features/dar...

14.10.2023 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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