The Sleeping Photographer
Matthew BroadheadA publication about Victorian photography, family archives and the making of a non-fiction book on Leicester artist and photographer F. W. Broadhead.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 26 | Founded | 5 months ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Photography by Instalment
During the 1870s, Frederick William Broadhead operated a network of portrait clubs across Leicester and, for a time, in Loughborough. Customers joined through local agents, paid by instalment and eventually received an enlarged photograph f...
The Photographer with a Museum
Unknown man, photographed by Edwin Thomas Gasson at 21 King Street, Rye, around 1865–66. Carte de visite, albumen print mounted on card. Author’s collection.
At first, this appears to be an ordinary Victorian portrait. An unknown man stand...
The Artist in the Frame
Frederick Dodson Broadhead in a memorial portrait attributed on the mount to F. W. Broadhead, Leicester and Loughborough. Author’s collection.
At the centre of this photograph is my fourth-great-grandfather, Frederick Dodson Broadhead. He...
The Lost North Range of St Mary Hall, Oxford
The quadrangle of St Mary Hall, Oxford, looking north towards the former Principal’s buildings, with the spire of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin behind. St Mary Hall was incorporated into Oriel College in 1902, and the north ra...
Following Frederick into Charnwood Forest
In late August 2020, I travelled to Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire with a large-format monorail camera, boxes of sheet film and a pair of nineteenth-century Dallmeyer lenses. I was following a trail left by my third great-grandfather, F...
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A Bristol-based teacher, artist and photo-historian. This Substack follows his forthcoming non-fiction book on F. W. Broadhead, his Victorian-era photographer-ancestor in Leicester, and the afterlife of family images.
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