Visiting researcher Kari Nixon writes about her work with photography journals and other material from our Kodak Collection.
Visiting researcher Ana Maria Mauad writes about her work with photographs from Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the Daily Herald archive.
In the first of a series of blog posts, we celebrate the exciting ways that visitors use our collections, whether that be for research, general interest, or as inspiration for artistic projects.
Commissioned by the charity Shelter, Nick Hedges photographed Bradford in 1969–70, documenting the housing crisis of the time with images that capture the links between domestic life and industry.
As well as books and journals, our library is home to self-published zines covering community broadcasting and pirate radio.
The Andor Kraszna-Krausz Archive offers a fascinating glimpse into the Focal Press founder’s travels across Europe.
Photographer Keeley Bentley writes about her experience researching in our archives, and the links she found between our collection and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
One of the first collections we have been working on in our Archive Management Project is that of British animator Run Wrake (1965–2012).
You may already know about the objects we look after, but did you know we also have a huge number of paper-based archives?
By Fiona Philip and Daniel Mutibwa
Yarns from the Potteries and Cottonopolis: The Pararchive Project in the Daily Herald Archive
Fiona Philip and Daniel Mutibwa of the University of Leeds write about their project to unlock the potential of our Daily Herald Archive.
Magnum Photographer David Hurn writes about his recent visit to our archives.
Our research centre isn’t just for visitors interested in photography, cinema, TV and the internet—we recently welcomed a researcher whose enquiries were of an entirely architectural nature…