Black and white, portrait oriented image of a lurcher sitting on the sofa in a living room. There light coming through the window on the bottom left to the top right which illuminates the dogs face. The light creates hard shadows, making the image appear with a strong contrast.
When you finally develop 5 films you've had sitting around and you find out you have taken the best photo of your parents' dog to ever exist. Love you Bob
21.11.2025 18:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
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18.11.2025 10:05 β π 224 π 135 π¬ 8 π 8
A woman riding on her broomstick with her hands on her head while her black cat in top hat and white tie sits behind her.
Yes, yes we may have posted this before, but he is the most handsome 'groom' and she the most fab look-no-hands witch! From Old King Cole's Nursery Rhymes, 1901 for #BlackCatDay πββ¬
@librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween
27.10.2025 09:02 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Plaid Cymru wins Caerphilly by-election as Labour loses seat for first time ever
Reform UK comes second in the race to represent Caerphilly in the Welsh Parliament - with Labour a distant third.
@isabelsantos.bsky.social please tell the folks in USA there is hope. A small town in a small country threw out hatred when the party imitating Trump's divisive politics was resoundingly beaten in Wales. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
24.10.2025 08:56 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you! I promise I am usually more articulate than I was yesterday haha I look forward to reading the Rainbow Trap!
24.10.2025 08:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.
π New Absolute Units π
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
16.10.2025 09:34 β π 715 π 199 π¬ 9 π 13
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
18.10.2025 09:16 β π 5 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom π
πΈπ π³οΈβπI wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.
If you are interested please get in touch:
π§ m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
π +447902489831
26.09.2025 08:55 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Image: On a dark blue background are white and light blue impressions of two pansies. At the bottom are the logos for the Arts and Humanities Research council, the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Text at top left reads - Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or spaces thatΒ feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!
Home Darkrooms in Britian πΈπ π³οΈβπ Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch: Β
π§ m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
π +447902489831
11.09.2025 16:43 β π 13 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1
Image: On a dark blue background are white and light blue impressions of two pansies. At the bottom are the logos for the Arts and Humanities Research council, the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Text at top left reads - Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or spaces thatΒ feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!
Home Darkrooms in Britian πΈπ π³οΈβπ Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch: Β
π§ m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
π +447902489831
11.09.2025 16:43 β π 13 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1
Probably have asked before, but does anyone know where the archives of Jan Pienkowski are held? (or if they are private?)
04.08.2025 10:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm really excited to finally share my article "Colouring and Crafting 19th-Century Science," awarded the 2024 Nuncius Prize.
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
12.06.2025 09:59 β π 17 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
The other day I was at an archive and thought I had come down with a bad cold. Turns out it was just my hayfever combined with the dry air of the reading room π I have heard eating honey made from bees local to you can help!
12.06.2025 14:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
πππ#photohist π·πΈποΈ
29.05.2025 08:33 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
It's f***en wimdy @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
25.05.2025 20:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After an early start, I'm now at the Women's Archive of Wales event 'Out of the Shadows' at Glamorgan Archive. Check out the tech for live Welsh to English translation for speakers speaking in Welsh π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώβ€οΈ
16.05.2025 09:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
DON'T MISS: This FREE Sporting Heritage & Fashion Study Day.
Where: DMU
@dmuleicester.bsky.social
When: 06-Jun-25
Registration: OPEN buff.ly/Bh3kd1t
@sportingheritage.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social
#sportshistory #sportswear @icshc.bsky.social
15.05.2025 13:29 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
β¨Home Darkroom Photos of the Dayβ¨ Today I came across an article in the 1976 issue of "The Army Reserve" on How to build a nickel-dime photo darkroom. This particular article looked how how to build your own enlarger using 'everyday' objects including coffee cans!
09.05.2025 15:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This worrying as, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to perpetuate issues asserted by the supreme court ruling on the definition of a woman? Masc cis women are begin to be policed because they don't 'fit' criteria on how 'women' should look and this type of technology may reinforce this?
09.05.2025 09:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us on the 27 May, 5-6.30pm (GMT) for the next event in the Photoecologies online seminar series:
Siobhan Angus & Jennifer Raab: Cultivating Empire: Photography and Fertilizer
To attend, please register via our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/siobhan-an...
02.05.2025 07:04 β π 13 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2
A Collotype Cake for Liberation Day! #fyp #collotype #foodhistory #photographichistory #jerseychannelislands #liberationday #jerseyci
TikTok video by Molly
This Friday marks the 80th anniversary of the Channel Islands, Liberation Day after the German occupation during WWII. Here is a tiktok I made about 4 years ago on the Collotype cake sent into the @jerseyeveningpost.com.web.brid.gy in 1941.
www.tiktok.com/@mollycaenwy...
07.05.2025 10:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck sweater is holding his hands to his head .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a turtleneck sweater is holding his hands to his head .
Emailing Welsh archives ahead of a visit (to see the famalam). I sent off an email to one asking if they knew of any collections that may be relevant to my research and then I realised, I am in that archive. I am the relevant (albeit it tiny and probably not accessioned properly) collection.
02.05.2025 13:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Grand Theft Auto VI might be delayed until 2026 but the good news is we remain open every single day but Monday
02.05.2025 13:20 β π 325 π 23 π¬ 8 π 6
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
01.05.2025 10:17 β π 793 π 538 π¬ 7 π 62
A free Welsh History Postgrad conference in Cardiff 3-4 June. Everyone welcome!
01.05.2025 10:03 β π 10 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
Curator of LGBTQ+ History / Historic Photography
#LGBTQ+ #HistoricPhotography
PhD History student @QUB. Research incl. the Irish Diaspora in Wales, England and Zimbabwe, transnational networks within the Irish Carmelites + female Catholic religious institutions. Previously at Aberystwyth University
Photo-historian, curator and archivist, occasionaly even photographer. Keen on early northern light photography, mid 20th century picture agencies and architectural photography.
Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA π Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh π he/him/his β‘οΈ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
The Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) is a hub for innovative research into photography and its broader social and cultural significance based at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Lecturer | Historian | Curator
Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)
Your go-to place for womenβs history!
The Womenβs History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about womenβs & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
πβοΈβ¨ I like games, books, art & crafts β¨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative β¨ she/her
linktr.ee/elizabethlovatt
Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
Audiovisual Archivist, PhD Candidate in Photographic Heritage @Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) DMU. Funded by Midlands4Cities (M4C).
Photohistorian | Writer | Lecturer
https://open.substack.com/pub/pressphotoman?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=30cqis
Philosophy of Photography is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide a forum for theoretical and critical debates around photography as a multifaceted and changing form: https://www.intellectbooks.com/philosophy-of-photography .
The Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society.
Promoting the history of photography through talks, visits and our journal, The PhotoHistorian.
https://rps.org/groups/historical/
Artist, writer, researcher. Doctoral candidate at CREAM, University of Westminster #photography #archives #architecture #archaeology
Active on IG: @lucy_jrogers
Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
Rummaging around museums
Postdoc | 'Making the Museum' | Pitt Rivers Museum
PhD | Life in Photographs : Archaeology, Assemblage and Temporality in the Archive of O.G.S Crawford
Previously | Krasis JTF | Ashmolean Museum
All views my own.
They/Them
There is no money in writing photography
Awkward outcast in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
instagram.com/budinddharmawan
The @uniofbrighton Transforming Sexuality & Gender Research Centre brings together researchers working on sexuality, gender, LGBTQ issues & social change.
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/ctsg/index.aspx
The UK's first national LGBTQ+ museum.
Registered charity. Let's make history!
2 Granary Sq, Kings Cross, N1C 4BH.
Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm.
Revealing and rethinking the ways we live in order to live better together.
Open Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays, 10amβ5pm. Closed on Mondays.
136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA
