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Dr Caroline Douglas
@carolinedouglas.bsky.social
Artist / Researcher
Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland

2025 Fellow, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2024 PhD Graduate, Royal College of Art, London

www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk
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This autumn I had the pleasure of being the Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, exploring the pre-photographic chemical networks of Elizabeth Fulhame. Thanks to all staff at @amphilsociety.bsky.social for their assistance in this research. More to follow!
I’m in the final few days of my 3 month fellowship at the Science History Institute, Philadelphia. I have been researching the work of the chemist Elizabeth Fulhame who began her photochemical studies in 1780 Edinburgh and by 1798 was a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Chemical Society.
July 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If you're in Edinburgh this summer, I am running the Darkroom Photography: Introduction to Colour Photography course at Stills Gallery. Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 August, 11am-5pm. A few places still left. More info here: stills.org/product/dark...
Darkroom Photography: Introduction to Colour Photography - Stills
This course will introduce you to the beautiful world of colour analogue photography. Taking as a starting point the work of contemporary photographic artists working with colour, we will discuss and ...
stills.org
June 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In January I was honoured to be given the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research. I began my research in spring at Yale University Library Palmquist Collection: Women in Photography.
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hard to imagine Robert Burns in proximity to the invention of photography. Yet here is his sister, Isabella, captured in her older age by the photographic partnership of Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill.

Image: National Galleries of Scotland @nationalgalleries.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Dr Caroline Douglas
Reposted by Dr Caroline Douglas
This autumn I had the pleasure of being the Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, exploring the pre-photographic chemical networks of Elizabeth Fulhame. Thanks to all staff at @amphilsociety.bsky.social for their assistance in this research. More to follow!
December 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM