Back to reality today after a wonderful time in rainy Norway, presenting at the Mundane Queer History conference at the University of Bergen. Was such a pleasure seeing all the great presentations and giving my own on the home darkroom and photographic production of queer image makers <3

We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!

This promises to be a great conference. The call for papers has been announced. #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

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.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🧵

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

@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...

🐏 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...

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!

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

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

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

Probably have asked before, but does anyone know where the archives of Jan Pienkowski are held? (or if they are private?)

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...

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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

✨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!

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...

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...

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

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/

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.

Grand Theft Auto VI might be delayed until 2026 but the good news is we remain open every single day but Monday

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

A free Welsh History Postgrad conference in Cardiff 3-4 June. Everyone welcome!

Sending my dad today's darkroom prints: "why are you spending the hottest day of the year in the dark??" 🥹 Because my brain has been full and busy and the darkroom is peaceful and still?

Celebrating my first (year) major PhD hand in (about home darkrooms) with getting in the darkroom 😅

Obsessed with this University of Glasgow and the British Library PhD AHRC CDP studentship “Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practices and Inclusion in a National Collection”!! Sounds so interesting! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Featuring curators, photojournalists, and artist-photographers, including Lebohang Kganye - great that it's available online, and those lucky to attend in person can also see current exhibitions by Carrie Mae Weems and the well-reviewed 'American Photography' show. 📜📷📸

Final deadline! Take part before 30th April: Calendar & Journal event “A Tribute to Sir John Herschel” – honouring the scientist behind anthotype, chrysotype, cyanotype, and more: 👉 www.alternativephotography.com/calendar-eve...

The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧ The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

There is still time to apply for our AHRC CDP PhD studentship with Imperial War Museums! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr... ‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War Deadline: 23 May 2025

📸 PHRC Takeover Blog IV is live! This month we’re focusing our lens on The Photographers’ Gallery Exhibition Catalogues with Martin Parr’s Calderdale series, capturing everyday life in Yorkshire. More here: buff.ly/HFRs5lr #photographichistory @dmuleicester.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social

Cass report - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused. FWS Supreme Court case - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans participation refused. Puberty blocker ban - Sex Matters etc consulted, trans input ignored. That should be everything you need to know.

I can't begin to put into words the disappointment I feel after yesterday's court ruling. I hope all of my trans friends & colleagues are looking after themselves. Looking forward to my volunteering this week with the Museum of Transology, being in a space that supports & celebrates the community.

Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire. Abstracts due: 31 May 2025. Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

📢Call for Papers #conference on #Photography and the #VisualCulture. Repurposing Photographic Materials: Transforming Social, Political, and Cultural Heritage. 📅July 7-8, 2025 (Hybrid) @dmuleicester Deadline: April 30, 2025 For details & submission: studentphotocon2025.wordpress.com

1/2 - 12 years ago I decided, for our Professional Enquiry module, to look into a career in "writing about photography". We had to interview people in the field, so in addition to my tutor David Evans, I emailed David Campany & Richard West, not thinking they would reply.

This week introduces one of the least visible of all early British women photographers but possibly one of the most significant. Mrs Atkinson was an itinerant photographer travelling with her 'Photographic Van' in her 1860 Richmond and Ripon Chronicle advertisement. 1/2

✨Home darkroom darkroom photos of the day✨ Looking through some of my own archive and here is a photo my friend took of me when I was teaching him how to caffenol develop. From bedroom to bathroom, then back to the bedroom to scan!

✨Fav home darkroom pics of the day✨ Film washing in a bathtub and methods of temperature control using blubs and ice baths.

First blog post in a year... Needed something to calm my mind so this month I explore the cyanotype photographic process, sustainability and mindful art practice through my latest interest, slow stitching! www.mollycaenwyn.co.uk/blog/2025/4/...

Dr Tom Allbeson will be co-supervising an Economic and Social Research Council funded studentship in collaboration with Ffotogallery which will explore a collection of historic documentary photographs known as ‘The Valleys Project’. More information⤵️ tinyurl.com/3jkbn6rk