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Happy International Women's Day 💕

Start the day with a read about today's pioneering 📸 heroine - Lora Webb Nichols, who amassed an extraordinary collection of 24,000 negatives of life in Wyoming. 👇

Stay tuned for our #IWD2026 quiz about #WomenInPhotography

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IWD2026 Come and celebrate International Women’s Day with us! A new exhibition, a volunteer curated display and some exciting new projects

Ahead of International Women's Day, we're celebrating today in the museum 🏛️ 😀

Come and join us for great #photography and #cake 🍰

#IWD2026 #WomenInPhotography

Find out more👇👇👇

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Sepia portrait of woman sitting at a desk. Inscription "Mrs Pankhurst" by Lena Connell

Sepia portrait of woman sitting at a desk. Inscription "Mrs Pankhurst" by Lena Connell

Day 4 of our 31 pioneering 📸heroines for #WomensHistoryMonth #IHM2026

Died #OTD 1949 - Lena Connell, photographer and suffragette

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Amélie Galup The work of Amélie Galup (1856-1943) is a significant example of the 19th century rise in amateur photography.

Born #OTD 1856 Amélie Galup - vernacular photography 📸 at its finest. Documented rural life in France and created an invaluable record of the era. Read more 👇

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3 penguins sitting between 3 white ice-cream jellies. A branch of fascia falls over the scene.

3 penguins sitting between 3 white ice-cream jellies. A branch of fascia falls over the scene.

March 1 - start of Women's History Month. Each day, we'll be posting about a woman pioneer from the history of 📸. It's been a challenge to choose just 31 ... Day 1, #ClaireAho (image Penguins, 1950s, © JB) from our new exhibition. Read more 👇
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The Joyful Women Collective Looking for something that sparks your curiosity and brings you together with other like-minded people? Enter the Joyful Woman Collective

January meeting at the 🏛️ of the Joyful Women Collective, this Thursday at 19:30 - Reclaiming the Flag with Maggie Dutton.

Details on website

hundredheroines.org/event/the-jo...

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#WomenPhotographers @hundredheroines.org

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Gallery update! Cynthia Stallings discovered alternative process photography in the 1980s. View her work:
👉 www.alternativephotography.com/cynthia-stal...

“Amagansett” (1985) won Best of Show. After a digital-era pause, Stallings returned to film, embracing #cyanotypes.

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Our last shipping day is Saturday, 20th December - all orders are posted using Royal Mail Tracked 24 service.

If you’re thinking about ordering a book, now is a good time!

www.photobookjunkies.com/products

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ArtDependence | The Netherlands Photomuseum to open on 7 February 2026 in the Santos Warehouse, Rotterdam The Netherlands Photomuseum to open on 7 February 2026 in the Santos Warehouse, Rotterdam

The Netherlands Photomuseum to open on 7 February 2026 in the Santos Warehouse, Rotterdam artdependence.com/articles/the...

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Tea towel with "A Woman's Work is Never Done" and a black T-Shirt.

Tea towel with "A Woman's Work is Never Done" and a black T-Shirt.

We're at #Nailsworth artisan market today - last one of the year - with our new range of merchandise and cards. And it doesn't look as though it's going to rain - hurrah! #LoveNailsworth

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Love seeing young readers get inspired in spaces like that 🖤 museum libraries are such underrated gems

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Fluffy cat reading a book "Louise Bourgeois Made Giant Spiders and Wasn't Sorry". Book cover has a big red spider on it.

Fluffy cat reading a book "Louise Bourgeois Made Giant Spiders and Wasn't Sorry". Book cover has a big red spider on it.

And today on the #AdventCalendar, Yin 🐾 is browsing the inspirational #books 📚 we have for young people in the #museum 🏛️ library.

#WomenArtists

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Our little bookstore is fully loaded with over 275 different titles - many signed, rare, new and pre-loved photobooks in stock!

Take a look at everything here www.photobookjunkies.com/products

Beat the Christmas rush and order now 📚✨

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Click the snowflake to see what we have in store today on the advent calendar!

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Photo of the Day | From ‘War Is Personal’, a web-based project by Julia Kochetova, awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest, combining photographs, poetry, audio clips, and music to capture what it is like to live with war as an everyday reality.

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Anne Brigman Anne Brigman (1869-1950) freed herself and the women she photographed from corsets and clichés, by revolutionising female nude photography.

Born #OTD 1869 Anne Brigman (1869-1950) was an American #photographer, artist and feminist icon. She freed herself and the women she photographed from corsets and cliches, revolutionising female nude photography. 📸

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Giving Tuesday 25 This Giving Tuesday, support our youth programme and help a young person rewrite the narrative: creativity > misogyny

#GivingTuesday

Our resident mascot - Yin - is looking for support to fund 100 additional places on our youth programme for #photography 📸.

Can you help? Thank you! 🐾

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The first snowflake is now live on our 2025 #AdventCalendar. A festive countdown of #photos, facts and inspiration!

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Thank you for writing it - an absolute must-read.

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Done Doing Time Done Doing Time exhibition by Hinda Schuman showing her 2023 exploration of two women released from prison.

Done Doing Time, our challenging new #photograpy #exhibition, displays the work of Hinda Schuman in her 2023 exploration of two women from one of the most vulnerable, most isolated demographics in America: women released from prison.

#WomenPhotographers

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#16Days of Activism against gender-based violence starts today. Over the next 16 days, we're creating a database of #photographers, #artists and #curators who are confronting male violence. Suggestions welcome!

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Added to the 'to buy' list for the library 📚

#WomenInPhotography

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“Most of our male colleagues continued for a long while to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status” Hannah Höch, born #OTD 1889. Only woman associated with Berlin Dada movement.

Find out more

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✨ Kindle deal ✨ My book is £2.99 for a limited time!

Perfect time to grab it. Go on, treat yourself today!

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Darkroom-Fil...

#memoir #books #BookSky #photography #forensics #CSI

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Green Exhibition 1 November, 15:00. Tea party for opening of pop-up exhibition of young photographers exploring the colour green.

Join us at the museum 🏛️ on Saturday for tea 🫖 and cake 🍰 to mark the opening of our pop-up #photography📸 #exhibition "Green" - the winning entries from our young people's competition.

Details on website.

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The Joyful Women Collective Looking for something that sparks your curiosity and brings you together with other like-minded people? Enter the Joyful Woman Collective

Coming soon ...
💫 The Joyful Women Collective💫
Taster session 6 November at 18:30 at the #museum🏛️
#creativity #photography📸 #fun

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100 Heroines is a lovely little photo museum. Seek it out if you can

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Thanks all for your replies - and @thinkythoughthead.bsky.social for highlighting our situation. Bet if we were called Hundred Heroes, this would never have happened 🙄

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We're hidden on an industrial estate ... but do have work in Mortimer Gardens too!

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