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Photobook Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org William Henry Fox Talbot was a polymath, perhaps best known as one of the founding father’s of photography, alongside Johann Heinrich Schulze (1717), Thomas Wedgwood (circa 1800), Nicéphore Niépce (circa 1820), and Louis Daguerre (1839).  Talbot’s salted paper photographic process was the result of experiments he had begun in 1834.  However, it was not until a few months after Daguerre’s announcement (made without revealing any useful details...

THE factory dominated the Accrington skyline and its products helped bring prosperity around the world. The name of Howard and Bullough’s was renowned for the textile machinery that the firm produced from its appropriately-named Globe Works. For decades the firm was one of East Lancashire’s biggest employers and at its peak employed almost 6,000 people. Founded in 1851 it remains most associated with Sir John Bullough who became one of the wealthiest men in England as the demand for looms rocketed and equipment manufactured in Accrington was exported around the world. He was the...

Universities in Sheffield and Manchester have become the first to scrap student accommodation fees during lockdown - after furious undergraduates threatened 'rent strikes' across the UK. The National Union of Students (NUS) has insisted it is 'unacceptable' that little support has been made available for those who travelled home for the holidays and have since been told not to return to campus. Thousands living in university accommodation have since pledged to withhold rent on rooms they cannot use during the latest Covid-19 lockdown in England, with organisers estimating 15,000 are involved....

DEVELOPMENTS could completely change the landscape of Bolton in 2021, with much to look forward to according to town hall chiefs. From new housing, to business and retail units, investment has continued to flow in to Bolton despite the coronavirus pandemic. Bolton Council’s deputy leader, Cllr Martyn Cox, who is responsible for regeneration issues in the borough, told The Bolton News: “Despite the pandemic and the economic challenges we have faced this year, I’ve been encouraged to see so much interest in Bolton among developers and investors. "We are clearly an attractive place...

Submitting... Alex Watson (left) and Tom Cutts, with Kerry Cook from The Source, who helped them apprenticeships. Companies should act now to find candidates before the new deadline, according to Dale Robinson, head of business development at The Source Skills Academy. He added: “The government hopes this extra time will encourage more companies to give a career chance to young people left jobless as a result of the pandemic.” The Source helps employers access funds and candidates and has a pool of people it has trained to make them ‘apprenticeship-ready’, he added. It has placed more...