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80 years ago: The opening of the British Television Service

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/80-years-ago-the-opening-of-the-british-television-service/
By Elinor Groom

…on Alexandra Palace, from the Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection Today marks the 80th anniversary of the inauguration of the world’s first regular series of high-definition television broadcasts….

Supermarionation: Gerry Anderson, a life in puppetry

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/gerry-anderson-1929-2012/
By Emma Thom

…1962, Science Museum Group collection The below photograph from the Daily Herald Archive shows a cameraman* shooting a scene of the launch of Thunderbird 1 from its hiding place within…

Making discoveries in our collections and research centre

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/emily-visits-our-archives/
By Emily Philippou

…Our last stop is the Daily Herald archive, preserving not only the images but the storage systems, even down to the box files, used until the newspaper’s closure in 1969….

The unstoppable rise of subscription video on demand

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/rise-of-video-on-demand/
By Sarah Rawlins

…Stand by for statistical goodness… A group watching television, 1954. Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL The Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) reported that by the final quarter of…

Happy Australia Day

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/photographs-of-australia-in-our-collection/
By Emma Thom

…Photographic Society Collection Emigrating to Australia aboard the ‘Georgie’, 1949, Sayle, Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection Town Hall. Melbourne. c.1855, Walter Bentley Woodbury © The Royal Photographic Society…

Collection Selections: Winter Olympic Games

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/olympic-winter-games/

…from about 100 Winter Olympic photographs that have been published in the Daily Herald Archive, held as part of our collection. The Daily Herald was the first national newspaper to…

This photograph of a spring scene is not quite what it seems

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/image-manipulation-and-compositing-in-early-20th-century/
By Ruth Kitchin

…& lambs, Sittingbourne, Kent, 6 May 1931, Daily Herald © Science Museum Group collection. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA This photograph of an orchard in Sittingbourne, Kent, taken for the Daily Herald

New Year’s Resolutions in our collection

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/new-years-resolutions-2013-photography-collection/
By Emma Thom

…Go travelling: Leaving for South Africa, 1947, Baker, Science Museum Group collection Eat more healthily: Woman pictured for Daily Herald slimming feature, 1957, Unknown, Science Museum Group collection Do more…

Epsom Derby in our collection

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/epsom-derby-in-pictures-through-the-20th-century/
By Colin Harding

…Here are just a few: Derby Grandstand, c.1909, Horace W. Nicholls © The Royal Photographic Society Collection Racegoers at the Derby, 5 June 1935, Edward George Malindine, Daily Herald Archive,…

Dark and light blue in black and white

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/boat-race-oxford-cambridge-archives/
By Toni Booth

…in a very meta moment, a newspaper photographer photographed a film crew filming the Oxford boat crew (still with me?). Oxford crew examining a newsreel camera. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum…

Why do we collect photography?

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/why-do-we-collect-photography/
By Geoff Belknap

…the world? For example, one of the most significant collections of photography in our care, the Daily Herald Archive, comprises millions of individual images as well as negatives, contact sheets…

At Something of a Slant: A poem and two short stories in response to objects in the Science Museum Group Collection

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/at-something-of-a-slant-a-poem-and-two-short-stories-in-response-to-objects-in-the-science-museum-group-collection/
By Redell Olsen

…arrival in Hollywood in 1938. Hedy Lamarr the day she arrived in Hollywood. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group/SSPL The poem refers to a patent (PDF) filed by Lamarr and George…