Molly Caenwyn
@mollycaenwyn.bsky.social
PhD researcher of The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s - Present. LGBTQIA+ photographic history. Photographic artist and avid cross stitcher (they/them)
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This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
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#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced.
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
#demontfortuniversity
#photography
#photohistory
#conference
#phrc
photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
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
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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
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Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.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.
1/8🧵
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.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.
1/8🧵
But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.
1/8🧵
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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 🐈⬛
@librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween
@librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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 🐈⬛
@librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween
@librarydmu.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYASpooky #NurseryRhymes #illustration #Halloween
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@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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@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...
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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
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...
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...
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
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...
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...
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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!
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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!
Really fantastic talk yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on his latest book Rainbow Trap. I am now spending the rest of the week untangling all my thoughts on Queer data. Truly fascinating!
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Really fantastic talk yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on his latest book Rainbow Trap. I am now spending the rest of the week untangling all my thoughts on Queer data. Truly fascinating!
Another wonderful talk last night at the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social @ukfetisharchive.bsky.social yesterday on the underground porn/reelers industry in soho!
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Another wonderful talk last night at the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social @ukfetisharchive.bsky.social yesterday on the underground porn/reelers industry in soho!
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️🌈I 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
📸🏠🏳️🌈I 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️🌈I 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
📸🏠🏳️🌈I 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
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:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
Probably have asked before, but does anyone know where the archives of Jan Pienkowski are held? (or if they are private?)
August 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Probably have asked before, but does anyone know where the archives of Jan Pienkowski are held? (or if they are private?)
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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...
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
June 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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...
It's available in open access: brill.com/view/journal...
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👇👇👇#photohist 📷📸🗂️
Registration for our PHRC25 Conference Photography, Value, History is open! We have two amazing keynotes, Catherine Troiano (V&A) and Donna West Brett (University of Sydney) and a wonderful line up photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... It's hybrid so come to Leicester or attend online!
Annual Conference 2025
Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. *…
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May 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
👇👇👇#photohist 📷📸🗂️
It's f***en wimdy @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's f***en wimdy @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
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 🏴❤️
May 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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 🏴❤️
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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
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
May 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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
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
✨Home Darkroom Photos of the Day✨ 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!
May 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
✨Home Darkroom Photos of the Day✨ 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!
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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...
Siobhan Angus & Jennifer Raab: Cultivating Empire: Photography and Fertilizer
To attend, please register via our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/siobhan-an...
May 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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...
Siobhan Angus & Jennifer Raab: Cultivating Empire: Photography and Fertilizer
To attend, please register via our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/siobhan-an...
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.
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A Collotype Cake for Liberation Day! #fyp #collotype #foodhistory #photographichistory #jerseychannelislands #liberationday #jerseyci
TikTok video by Molly
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May 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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...
www.tiktok.com/@mollycaenwy...
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3RD BIRTHDAY 🎂
This weekend we celebrated three years since we opened the doors to our museum!
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s visited, donated, volunteered, and believed in our museum. Thank you for helping us preserve and uplift queer voices - now and always ❤️
–
Images From Queer Britain
This weekend we celebrated three years since we opened the doors to our museum!
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s visited, donated, volunteered, and believed in our museum. Thank you for helping us preserve and uplift queer voices - now and always ❤️
–
Images From Queer Britain
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
3RD BIRTHDAY 🎂
This weekend we celebrated three years since we opened the doors to our museum!
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s visited, donated, volunteered, and believed in our museum. Thank you for helping us preserve and uplift queer voices - now and always ❤️
–
Images From Queer Britain
This weekend we celebrated three years since we opened the doors to our museum!
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s visited, donated, volunteered, and believed in our museum. Thank you for helping us preserve and uplift queer voices - now and always ❤️
–
Images From Queer Britain
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May 6th this year is the 92nd anniversary of the Nazi raid on the world's first gender and sexuality clinic 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people-belong-here-and-were-not-going-anywhere/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people-belong-here-and-were-not-going-anywhere/
Trans+ people belong here, and we’re not going anywhere
The primary power of Trans+ History Week is the potential to instil a great sense of wellbeing among the Trans+ community itself.
www.wearequeeraf.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
May 6th this year is the 92nd anniversary of the Nazi raid on the world's first gender and sexuality clinic 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people-belong-here-and-were-not-going-anywhere/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/trans-people-belong-here-and-were-not-going-anywhere/
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.
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 .
media.tenor.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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.
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Grand Theft Auto VI might be delayed until 2026 but the good news is we remain open every single day but Monday
May 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Grand Theft Auto VI might be delayed until 2026 but the good news is we remain open every single day but Monday