Lecture – Caring for a Nation’s Photographs

Self portrait of Liverpool photographer, Edward Hardman (cellulose nitrate negative)

At Magdalen College Auditorium, Longwall St at 11am

Tea and coffee will be served in the Auditorium Foyer from 10.30am, a chance to chat with friends!  All welcome! Members £5, non-members £6 

National Trust photography collections are widespread; they reflect the development of photography from the 1840s to the present day.  Many reveal how our places appeared in the past, while others capture formal and informal portraits of the people who lived there. Numerous family albums reveal their creator’s interests and concerns, helping today’s visitors to understand our properties. 

Anita Bools is the National Trust’s Senior National Conservator for Paper and Photography. In this talk she will share some of her favourite photographs and reveal their stories. She will also describe the challenges in caring for such a vast and precious collection.

Lucy Jones’ personal photograph album (she was nanny at Erddig)