Tag: Photography Records and researchThe early photography of Hong Kong at The National ArchivesThursday 19 October 2023Angela Cheung investigates a photo album called ‘Hongkong & Macao, The Typhoon of 22 Sept 1874’...Records and researchPatently obvious: Tracing the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneerThursday 1 June 2023We demonstrate how you can look at historical inventions recorded in documents at The...Records and researchThe unexpected beauty in copyright registration: Robert Jackson’s photographsThursday 4 May 2023Unearthing a series of images captured by a Manchester-based photographer in the 1860s....Technology and innovationAnalysing Britain’s earliest copyrighted photographsThursday 10 November 2022In the 1860s photography as a new medium was coming under scrutiny and issues...Records and researchEarly photography in India: Tracing photographers through copyright recordsFriday 12 August 2022In the second half of the 19th century, photography began to flourish in many...Records and research‘Bandits, guerrillas, terrorists’: The role of the Central Office of Information during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ (1948-60)Thursday 14 October 2021In 1948, Britain declared a state of ‘Emergency’ in Malaya, an area in Southeast...Records and researchThe Ghost of Christmas past? St Thomas Becket and Edwardian CanterburyTuesday 29 December 2020Everyone loves a ghost story at Christmas, right? One might even say they represent...Records and researchJohn Thomson: Victorian pioneer of photojournalismFriday 17 April 2020The copyright records held at The National Archives are a fantastic source for the...Behind the scenesResearching while the archive is closed: Visual collectionsThursday 9 April 2020While The National Archives is closed, nobody can research using original documents. This, of...Records and researchCoal, cricket and the camera: The photographs of Reverend F W CobbFriday 3 January 2020This is a story of how new and fascinating information about our collections can...Archives and archivistsThe pannotype mystery: Part 2 – identifying rare historic photographic processesTuesday 12 November 2019In our previous blog, we talked about finding rare historic photographic processes in one...Archives and archivistsThe power of photography: Black History Month at Roehampton LibraryFriday 8 November 2019As part of Black History Month, the Outreach team at The National Archives decamped... 1 2 »