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Swindon, England
Joined September 2014
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, @historicengland has revealed a fascinating collection of photographs showing rare behind-the-scenes shots at #PinewoodStudios and the pioneering role of women in wartime photography.
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Traditionally, on May Day, celebrations included dancing around the maypole and crowning a May Queen. 🌺 The earliest recording of dancing around the Maypole was in Wales in the 14th century, and this tradition soon spread. 📷 Thaxted, Essex, between 1947-1955.
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Built in 1609, Dunster Yarn Market in Somerset is a timber-framed octagonal market hall still standing today. It is a monument to Dunster's past as the centre of the wool trade. 📸 This photograph was taken between 1850 and 1900.
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The latest issue of our journal 'The PhotoHistorian (Spring 2025/no. 201) has just been published. Articles about @HE_Archive photographer Ursula Clark, Sri Lankan photography and Linked Ring member Walter Benington's London. Thanks to our editor @mikeyp4
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Followers @HE_Archive might enjoy a recent @RPShistgroup talk 'Ursula Clark: Architectural Photographer.' youtu.be/Uzah6NVIubg?si=ABjJ…
The Historic England Archive cares for some amazing collections created by women photographers, including Eileen Deste and Ursula Clark. You can find out more about these and other women photographers👇 historicengland.org.uk/resea… #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenPhotographers
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It's #InternationalWomensDay and we're celebrating the remarkable work of photographer Margaret Harker. 📸 She established the first photography degree course in the country and became the UK’s first professor of photography. View her work: ➡️ bit.ly/MargaretHarkerPhotogr…
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#InternationalWomensDay "She always had a camera with her. Always." Ursula Clark (1940-2000) took 20,000 b&w negatives of buildings old and new in Britain and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. Learn more about her life and @HE_Archive images youtu.be/Uzah6NVIubg?si=OLrP…
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Still time to register for Friday's free online talk (1800) ... 'Ursula Clark: Architectural Photographer.' Marking the 25th anniversary of her death @pressphotoman will be sharing new research about Ursula's photography and images from her @HE_Archive Details via link in bio.
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📢 14,472 new photos added to our Air Photo Explorer. More than 500,000 images online! Plus our aerial mapping, giving more info about #archaeology visible in photos. ➡️bit.ly/MappingExplorer Braybrooke Castle, Chatham Dock, Wharfedale, Caer Caradoc bonus #HillfortsWednesday!
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On 27 April 1944, United States Army Air Forces recorded events during Exercise Tiger, a series of practice exercises on the coast of Devon. Explore aerial photographs capturing Exercise Tiger in action ➡️ bit.ly/WitnessingExerciseTig…
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Hidden in Aylesford, Kent, this wooden building is a unique relic of the 1948 Olympic Games in London. It's considered the oldest surviving purpose-built sauna in England in continuous use. Now listed at Grade II, the building is protected for future generations. 👏
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The Astoria Cinema in Bury opened in 1931. The cinema was designed by architect Charles Swain and renamed the Odeon in 1937. It later closed in 1961 and became the Lancastrian Bingo Club. In 2005, it was demolished. A supermarket now stands on its site.
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Hundreds of new photographs have been added to our archive following our #PicturingHighStreets campaign with @photoworks_uk. 📸 This collection shows how important the high street can be for people to come together and connect. See the full collection ➡️ historicengland.org.uk/pictu…
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🎉 We’re looking for a photographer/lens based artist to work with us, alongside the Leeds Caribbean & African Centre, and Historic England, on a new Photography Residency for Chapeltown during 2024. Find out more here: lenslabproject.org/chapeltow… – at Leeds, England
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A new missing piece! 🧩 The #MissingPiecesProject invites you to share pictures and stories of places on the National Heritage List for England. 📸 This submission by Tyran Choy is of the cellarium at @fountainsabbey. Get involved ➡️ bit.ly/MissingPiecesProject
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Restoration work in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has uncovered the timber frame of what could be the city's oldest surviving medieval timber building. The discovery was made during conservation as part of our High Street Heritage Action Zone. #HistoricHIghStreets @MyWakefield
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The latest issue of AARGNews features 2 Historic England-related articles - one on Victorian aerial photographer Cecil Shadbolt, whose glass lantern slides are held by the @HE_Archive; and one on the South East Northumberland Air Photo and Lidar Mapping Project.
🎃📰 Our spectaculaarg Halloween treat is here! The latest issue of AARGnews has fallen from the sky, ready to haunt your screens. Dive into the eerie articles and spine-chilling stories. Beware, it's a ghoulishly good read! 👻🎈👻🚁👻✈️👻🛰️👻
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A collection of Second World War aerial photography has been made accessible to the public for the first time. 📷 The photographs were taken by the United States Army Air Forces Photographic Reconnaissance units in England in 1943 and 1944. See more. ➡️ bit.ly/USAAF-Photography
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We’re supporting @wfcouncil with bringing this historic building back to life. Check out the amazing level of detail involved. 👇🤩
Meet Walthamstow artist Saskia Huning, one of the many people working on the interior restoration of @sohotheatre Walthamstow 🎨 Watch Saskia recreate a section of the 1930s painted dado design, a geometric stencilled tiled pattern on walls of the auditorium 🖌️
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