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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!

The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 2d

How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?

Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.

Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...

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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 4d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

photooxford.org

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Vanessa Vanden Berghe @vbruggemeyer.bsky.social · 12d

What a great project 🤩

Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 13d

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

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ʙᴜᴅɪ ɴ. ᴅ. ᴅʜᴀʀᴍᴀᴡᴀɴ @budinddharmawan.bsky.social · 12d

Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)

Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.

More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 14d

What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social

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Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social · 24d

Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open!

Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept

See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS

#envhum #envhist

Image of Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company workshops with smoke escaping from tower. Reference: CO 1069/280 from The National Archives, UK.

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 27d

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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 27d

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

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 that feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!

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Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've written a short post www.beatrizpichel.com/news/why-med... to mark the official start of my @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Fellowship! Over the next year I'll be writing my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. To say I'm excited is an understatement! #photohist

Why medical photography? — Dr Beatriz Pichel

Today I officially start my Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which will allow me to write my second monograph, Medical Photography in Nineteenth-Century France. From the Material to the Ethical over ...

www.beatrizpichel.com

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · Aug 27

@mollycaenwyn.bsky.social 👆🏼

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RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social · Aug 25

Another online talk has been added to our 2025 Programme.

'The Roaming Studio: The Itinerant Photographer in Berwick-upon-Tweed' on Tuesday 11th November (1900 GMT).

Register and full details via link.

events.rps.org/en/historica...

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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · Aug 21

‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇

press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

#indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · Aug 24

😢😢 I am speechless. Much love xx

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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · Aug 22

Do take a look at the call for papers for our conference on The Hand 8-9 Jan 2026, @lcflondon.bsky.social. We're seeking contributions from a range of disciplines! Please check it out and get involved!

The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · Aug 15

🙌Call for Papers🙌
We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026

Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Call for Papers. The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity. An Interdisciplinary Conference. 8-9 January, 2026
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Proposal Deadline: 22 September 2025

What do hands reveal about us?
We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes, for presentation at our 2-day interdisciplinary conference, part of The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present, supported by UKRI.

We welcome presentations from multi- and interdisciplinary research fields, including Critical Studies, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM.
We encourage proposals from artists, makers and performers.
Image includes an illustration of magnetism, a Victorian man sitting under 3 hands, 2 of whom have lines of magnetic power emanating onto his head and shoulders

Please send abstracts up to 300 words, and biographies up to 100 words to victorianhand@fashion.arts.ac.uk by 22 September 2025
Read the full call at thevictorianhand.uk/call-for-papers-the-hand

Image features the 3 logos of Lancaster University, UAL and UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great! This will be really useful to my students, I'll order a copy for our library.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very excited I finally got my copy of Do Less Harm, brilliantly edited by the incredible @cethompson.bsky.social and @drkyliesmith.bsky.social! In my chapter I reflect on the strategies I follow to teach with images ethically. I LOVED LOVED LOVED writing this piece! #histmed #ethics

A picture of the front cover of the book Do Less Harm. Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney E Thompson and Kylie M Smith

A picture of a chapter titled Images and Primary Sources,by me, Beatriz Pichel

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm in Blackpool next week to give a talk about the darkroom. Join us if you are in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photograph...

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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · Jul 21

Two weeks to go before the deadline for papers celebrating women photographers. Building on our March 24 hour conference-athon, a FREE online conference will be held on International Women’s Day 2026. We invite proposals for talks or panel discussions - details at: womenofphoto.com

Women of Photography

Join us at Women of Photography to celebrate the contributions of women-identifying practitioners to the history and living present of photography women photo female photographers

womenofphoto.com

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Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just published: Victoria Munn's article argues that "the Woman’s Work section at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition proclaimed women’s collective progress in, and contribution to, art in the Victorian era" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women’s Work? Women Artists at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition

In 1897, as part of a wide-ranging exhibition to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Henrietta Rae curated a display of artworks by over 180 women. Analysing architectural plans, press revi...

www.tandfonline.com

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Steffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · Jul 12

For its 11th issue, the journal “Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société” is looking for contributions dealing with “Live and Direct. Infrastructures and Imaginaries of Simultaneity.” Guest editors are Jonathan Dentler, Olivier Lugon, and Marie Sandoz. Here is the call for papers:

Transbordeur | CFP – En direct

Appel à contributions Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société numéro 11, « En direct. Infrastructures et imaginaires de la simultanéité » <img width=

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · Jul 10

I've been a bit quiet recently due to being busy getting our new Sound and Vision galleries ready @mediamuseum.bsky.social

They opened today! There was a gaggle of kids having a brilliant time in there when I wandered through this morning 😍

Lovely overview here from @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thrilled to be at the opening of the National Science and Media Museum’s new Sound & Vision galleries in Bradford last night. Lots of new adventures inside…

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · Jul 11

Fairies and vampires and aliens, oh my!

Great photos from the new Sound and Vision galleries at @mediamuseum.bsky.social. We've got a brilliant family day lined up for tomorrow *and* temperature controlled galleries 😎

www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sou...

A family looking at a display about the Cottingley fairies. There's one of the cameras they used and you can pose with the fairies yourself

A family exploring a display about horror movies. There's a big pool of fake blood on the floor and a xenomorph from Alien in the background

Two people stand inside a huge digital artwork, looking at giant screens

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