A recent post we published on this blog touched on the subject of Retouching Glass Plates. It’s something I promised to look at in more detail on the blog a while ago, and following a recent talk to Carshalton Photographic Society on the very subject over the summer, I’ve realised it is long overdue. A…
Today’s post is a wonderful piece of research by our dedicated project volunteer Kathy Nichols, who has an aptitude for historical research and always seems able to find a good story among our plates. Again, it is an example of how sometimes something which has a seemingly quite indirect connection to the subject of your research, leads you down…
Today’s post is written for us by Sue James, History teacher and keeper of the Sutton High School archive which dates from 1884 to the present. Sue has a particular interest in the contribution of women to the Great War and the effects of the War on their lives. She has also written a talk entitled…
Today’s post comes from one of our regular contributors. Kathy Nichols has been volunteering with the project since we started in 2014. As well as being an integral part of the team that scans and catalogues the collection, she has also successfully researched many of our sitters and subjects and has also acted as a…
Today’s post comes courtesy of Ruth Feather, a remote volunteer who came to us through a family connection with one of our regular hands-on team. Ruth has a particular interest in fashion history having studied the subject for her Masters degree and was fascinated by the examples of fancy dress within the collection. Today she…
We often find that our volunteers have overlapping interests. It was a coincidence but not a surprise to find that two of our number also volunteer for a local National Trust property, Polesden Lacey was originally a Regency property but was extensively remodelled in 1906 by Margaret Greville, a well-known Edwardian hostess. It enjoyed a heyday…
In an ideal world, today’s post would have gone out this time last year, 150 years since the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on 26 November 1865. As it happens, we only made the connection between the date of this infamous publication and our collection when searching for a topic for the blog in…
