Developing audio description for our galleries
…bring to life a Brownie camera from our object handling collection and a photo from the Daily Herald archive. Following this training, members of the Visually Impaired Women’s Group based…
Celebrating our volunteers during Volunteers Week
…involvement in the Communities and Crowds project wrapped up in September. The volunteers researched and selected just over 400 photos from the museum’s Daily Herald Archive to be digitised for…
M is for… Mug shots, the criminal identification portrait
…/ Daily Herald, Science Museum Group collection This detainee, W Fischer, was held for the gross maltreatment of British Prisoners of War. Page from an album of prison record photographs…
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,…
My message to Bradford
…3 million objects. We will, for example retain photographic collections such as the Kodak Collection, which charts the development of the photographic process; The Daily Herald Archive, a unique newspaper…
Collection Selections: The First World War on camera
…Trustees of the Science Museum Peace scenes in London, wounded soldiers with flags, 1919, Daily Herald Archive, Photographer unknown © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum A street…
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…
Collection Selections: The 1948 London Olympic Games
…the Daily Herald newspaper, and are a wonderful example of sports photojournalism in our collection. Alistair McCorquodale in the Olympic Village, London, 1948, © The Board of Trustees of the…
The last remaining Scophony TV receiver high-speed scanner motor?
…the richly veneered cabinet when not in use. A model demonstrates the Ekco-Scophony ES104 television receiver on Scophony’s stand at Radiolympia, 23 August 1938, Edward George Malindine © Daily Herald…
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…
Picture a Museum Day 2011
…MuseumPics group to see images from around the world. Large Object Store in Insight: Collections & Research Centre Daily Herald Archive Large Object Store in Insight: Collections & Research Centre…
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…