As we congratulate Chris Froome for his Tour de France win, Colin Harding investigates the surprising link between cycling and photography.
Press officer Emily Philippou reports on the launch of our Moving Stories exhibition, including some very special guests.
Colin recently visited Vienna to bring back photographs by Roger Fenton that we’d loaned to the Leopold Museum for their ‘Clouds: Fleeting Worlds’ exhibition.
Learning consultant Philip Webb explores why books and films are so important for getting children engaged with literacy.
This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Rejlander, the flamboyant and mysterious photographer who pioneered the painstaking technique of combination printing.
In our latest post about dating your old family photographs, Colin Harding shows you how to identify cartes de visite—an ubiquitous collectable in the 19th century.
Watch the best, the rarest and the most extraordinary films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive with BFI Mediatheque from Friday 19 July 2013.
Kieron Casey learns about one of the pioneers of early cinema, George Albert Smith, and has a humbling experience in our archives.
As Tate Britain prepares to open a new exhibition of L.S. Lowry’s industrial landscapes, we look at scenes of northern urban life in our collection.
In a new feature, we share the best news, reviews and articles about photography, film and television that we’ve spotted on the web this week.
One of the most important figures in photographic publishing—we even named a research room after him in recognition of his contribution to photography and cinematography.
We may have been dealt a blow with the promise of rain this weekend here in Bradford, but there’s plenty of summer fun to be found in our collection.