Celebrating VE Day
…Daily Herald. Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL The Daily Mirror wrote about Londoners ‘there by the acre’ for VE-Hour, one minute past midnight, ‘when the cheering, singing crowds…
150 years of Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian aid
…bombed residential area, 29 June 1943, Jack Esten © Daily Herald / Science Museum Group collection GIs on leave at the Milestone Club, Kensington, London, 2 September 1942 © Daily…
Dapper dogs doing jobs
…meeting them as much as we did discovering them. Image: Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL Working on the new musical Camelot at the Drury Lane Theatre is thirsty…
Hidden Treasures of Our Collection: Man Walking a Haggis
…‘Boy with giant ice-cream’ 1936. Daily Herald Archive. © Science Museum Group collection ‘Astra the robot’ 1932. Daily Herald Archive. © Science Museum Group collection ‘Expert leggers Daniel Jinks and…
Dunkirk on the big screen and in our collection
…the screening. The Daily Herald Archive, held on site at the National Science and Media Museum, is the former picture library of the Daily Herald newspaper. Active between 1911 and…
From the Archives to the Internet: Updates from the Communities & Crowds Project
…communities. As part of this project, a small team of local volunteers have been selecting and digitising images related to African Caribbean history from the Daily Herald Photographic Archive. Alongside…
Forgotten Women in STEM: Hedy Lamarr
…into the museum’s collections in search of female trailblazers in science, technology, engineering and maths. Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949), publicity portrait © Mirrorpix, Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum…
Vidal Sassoon: 17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012
Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairdresser of the 1960s, so there’s no question that we’d have photographs of the man and his modern, low-maintenance styles in the Daily Herald…
Beatlemania in the collection: 50 years since the release of ‘Love Me Do’
…in the audience at a Beatles concert, 1963, Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection The Beatles return home to London Airport after their US tour, September 1964, Daily Herald…
Hidden Treasures of Our Collection: Wearable technology
…full size cameras of the time. ‘Happy When She’s Hiking’ Photograph ‘Happy When She’s Hiking’, Daily Herald, August 17th, 1934. © Daily Herald Archive, Science Museum Group collection This image…
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…