Images of autumn in our collection
…enjoying the sunset across the Serpentine in Hyde Park, 1938, Harold Tomlin © Daily Herald / Science Museum Group collection Arbend [Evening], 1899, Theodor Hofmeister, Oscar Hofmeister © The Royal…
David Hurn and Magnum photographers visit our research centre
…in Insight: Collections and Research Centre © Murray Ballard Perhaps for me most interesting was the Daily Herald Archive. The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper, published in London…
Epsom Derby in our collection
…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,…
Making discoveries in our collections and research centre
…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
…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
…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…
Dark and light blue in black and white
…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…
New Year’s Resolutions in our collection
…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…
Supermarionation: Gerry Anderson, a life in puppetry
…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…
Why do we collect photography?
…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…
Collection Selections: Winter Olympic 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
…& 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…