Summer scenes from our photography collection
…‘Under Canvas’ 1938, George W. Roper. © Science Museum Group collection ‘Holiday Joys on the Beach’ 1937, Saidman, Daily Herald. © Science Museum Group collection ‘View of a pier’ c.1900,…
History of British television: Timeline, 1926–2017
…addresses the Baird studio cameras, 2 November 1936, from the Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection 1940s 23 December 1941: Baird gives first demonstration of 600-line electronic stereoscopic television…
Re-evaluating the Baird Double 8
…with the Double-8. This photo from the Daily Herald Archive shows some of the missing features. © Science Museum Group Collection As it was originally configured, the device contained not…
‘Never Alone’: A sociological standpoint, part 2 – cameras and crime
…1964 © United Press International, Daily Herald/Science Museum Group With mass surveillance, however, people may feel they are always being watched—truly ‘never alone’. This has in fact been used as…
Attention pop pickers! Our alternative Top 5 chart
…total nightmare? Depends on whether you’re a big Beatles fan or not! From the Daily Herald Archive at National Science and Media Museum (© Science Museum Group Collection. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)…
Celebrating 50 years of BBC2
…the Pilkington report, which expressed disappointment with the commercial programming on ITV, BBC2—the UK’s third television channel—was to be relatively highbrow. In his Daily Herald column, Dennis Potter declared: ‘BBC2…
Television fears inspire spooky reading in J.B. Priestley’s ‘Uncle Phil on TV’
…still very much a novelty. J.B. Priestley at work in his study, 1940, Tovey © Daily Herald / Science Museum Group collection The cultural context Television had been around for…
Photocamp Bradford 2009
…at tables replete with fashion-related museum material: pre-war pictures from our enormous Daily Herald archive, early copies of Vogue magazine, and iconic pictures of original supermodel Twiggy. Meanwhile, our very…
M is for… Mug shots, the criminal identification portrait
…Miller], 7 May 1909 © Science Museum Group collection A detainee at a camp for German political prisoners is photographed, June 1945 © Planet News Ltd / Daily Herald, Science…
Mervyn O’Gorman’s ‘Christina’: How the girl in red from a 1913 photo became a social media starlet
…is Christina, and the images—on show in our Drawn by Light exhibition until 21 June 2015—have been doing the rounds on social media and in the world’s press. The Daily…
Sound-mapping moments in time
…my daily life, an obscured panoptical retelling of daily life. Translating my experience first into written language and then composing spoken language with audio produced during the first month of…
Hidden Treasures of Our Collection: Game Boy
As someone without a background in photography, film, television, or media, I often find myself mystified by the objects I deal with on a daily basis. However, I regularly come…