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Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org In second-hand bookshops and at car boot sales, I find it impossible to resist any dog-eared copies of Picture Post magazine, the publication that did for the genre of British photojournalism what Life magazine - the inspiration for Picture Post - did for the American genre.  While writing a 'documentary' brief for a class of A-level photography students, I was thrilled to find a link between my home town of Harrogate, Picture Post magazine and, somewhat sur...

Take a look at tourists enjoying their holiday at Southend-on-Sea, a resort town on the Thames Estuary in Essex, Southeast England: sunbathing on the beach, singing and dancing on the Royal Sovereign-a pleasure steamer taking passengers on a trip up the Thames, having good times at the funfair, thro

Scottish photographer Douglas Corrance’s shots from the 70s and 80s reject gritty images of poverty in favour of colour and character

THE co-owner of The Telegraph group and former joint owner of The Scotsman Sir David Barclay has died at the age of 86, it was announced yesterday. David Rowat Barclay and his twin brother Sir Frederick Hugh were the sons of Scottish parents, Frederick Hugh Barclay from Kilmarnock, and Beatrice Cecilia, née Taylor. The couple had eight other children, but it was the twins, born 10 minutes apart on October 27, 1934, with David being the elder, who rose to fame as the billionaire Barclay Brothers. Frederick senior was a travelling salesman who died when the two boys were 13, and they wer...

‘Wise, clever and kind, Katharine Whitehorn made it easier for all of us who followed her’ Vanessa Thorpe Stylish, stimulating and life-affirming, Katharine Whitehorn, the Observer writer and broadcaster who helped shape modern British journalism, was mourned by readers and former colleagues at the weekend. Born in Hendon, London, in 1928, the columnist, the first woman to be given such a job at this newspaper, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. She moved to a care home in north London in 2018 and was recently diagnosed with Covid-19, although it is not clear ...