Recorded events can be found on the RPS Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRoyalPhotographicSociety/videos
If members would like to submit photographs of - or feedback on - past events, contact historicalweb@rps.org.
Recent events
Online talk: John Thomson and his photography of Asia, 29 July 2021
To commemorate the centenary of the death of former RPS member John Thomson FRGS (1837-1921), Betty Yao MBE talks about Thomson's decade in Asia.
Online talk: Presenting the Johnston collection, Wick, 22 June 2021
Ian Leith of the Wick Society looks at the Johnston Collection, a unique photographic archive which provides an insight into life in and around Wick from 1863 to 1976.
Online talk: Presenting the MacKinnon Collection, 20 May 2021
Talk by Blake Milteer, curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, provides a view into the MacKinnon Collection, representing Scottish life and achievements from the 1840s through to the 1950s.
Online talk: A conversation with Colin Ford, 28 January 2021
Colin Ford CBE is one of Britain's first curators of photography and has had a long and distinguished career. He discusses some of the highlights with Gilly Read FRPS.
Online talk: Roger Fenton and Stonyhurst, 17 November 2020
Dr Jan Graffius, curator of collections at Stonyhurst College, talks to Gilly Read FRPS about Roger Fenton and his photographs of Stonyhurst and the surrounding countryside.
Research Day, 14 November 2020
The RPS Historical Group’s 2020 Research Day: a series of papers of research in progress from photo-historians, students and others.
Colin Ford Lecture, 6 February 2020
Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight to his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné.