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THE MISSING CHAPTER | BLACK CHRONICLES


  • Hillhead Library Byres Road Glasgow, Scotland G12 8AP United Kingdom (map)

This pop-up photography display has been produced by Autograph, London, and is presented by Street Level Photoworks. It features 30 image panels, reproduced from rare 19th century photographs portraying people of African, Caribbean and South Asian descent during the Victorian era in Britain. Part of the The Missing Chapter project, which aims to bring together a  distinct body of photographs that showcases diverse ‘black presences’ in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, offering a unique portrait of Black lives and migrant experiences during the decades following the birth of photography in 1839.

Free exhibition, no booking required

Sargano Alicamousa. Aboyne, Scotland 1890s. Photograph by R. Charles Reid Company. Courtesy of Autograph. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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