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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
A heartfelt thanks to staff and fellows for their engagement and encouragement in the development of this research @sciencehistory.org. 2/2 www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
Beckman Center Fellows
Our scholars study a range of topics in the history and social studies of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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July 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The workshop will coincide with the exquisite work of Siân Davey. Davey's 'The Garden' is showing at Stills as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2025.
Siân Davey – The Garden - Stills
Friday 1 August – Saturday 30 August 2025Preview event: Thursday 31 July, 6-8pm We are excited to present Siân Davey – The Garden as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2025. “There are no secrets in this ...
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June 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A heartfelt thanks to Pam Mendelsohn and the Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Humboldt Area Foundation. It is a privilege to work through Peter’s papers and to read his selected readings and writings on women in early photography.
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Peter Palmquist’s (1936-2003) papers on women in photography are vast. This is the only occasion in my research where the figures I am studying have had their own categorised entry under ‘photography’. My only regret is to have not had the chance to speak to such a key historian of photography.
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The grants were established by Peter’s lifetime companion, Pam Mendelsohn. Its remit is to support ‘the study of under-researched women photographers internationally and under-researched Western American photographers through The Great Depression’.
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I've written more on the topic here: Pictures and progress? Frederick Douglass and early Scottish photography: www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...
Pictures and progress? Frederick Douglass and early Scottish photography • V&A Blog
Early photographic pioneers Robert Adamson (1821 – 1848) and David Octavius Hill (1802 – 1870), and their links to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
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January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In 1840s Scotland, both men sought out Burns’ younger sister, Isabella, and their encounters survive today: Hill’s calotype photograph of her is held at the National Galleries of Scotland, while Douglass’ recollections of meeting the poet’s sister are captured in the Frederick Douglass Papers.
January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
But it was the national bard, Robert Burns, to whom he returned time and again throughout his life. Hill was similarly taken by the poet and illustrated the 1840 book 'The Land of Burns'.
January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Although Hill and Douglass almost certainly never met, they moved in similar circles and had interests in common. Douglass held Scotland, particularly its landscape and literature, in high regard – he famously named himself after a character in Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake.
January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You’re at the APS @amphilsociety.bsky.social? I just enjoyed a short research period there - enjoy!
January 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Photograph of a painting of Joseph Priestley, a key figure in Fulhame's work.

Credit: American Philosophical Society. Gift of Mrs. Caspar Wistar, 28 March 1818.
December 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Lol, just read this again. Got up at 5am today for a flight. 2016.
November 21, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Fun! We went to this too-2026, I think? The perfect combination for us as I was there for Eggleston 😉
November 21, 2024 at 1:03 PM