The Bingley Archive by Rebecca Jarman published on 2019-12-26T20:32:03Z The Bingley archive is a collection of almost 10,000 glass plate photographs held at the University of Leeds. It was created at the end of the nineteenth century by Godfrey Bingley of Western Yorkshire. A prominent industrialist, Bingley was also a self-taught photographer, amateur geologist, local historian, globe-trotter, dreamer, and romantic. In 1913, Bingley would donate his collection to the newly-established University. There, it was passed between the departments of geology, archaeology, history, and Special Collections. The contents of the archive, and its legacy, tell fascinating tales about Edwardian Leeds, the birth of travel photography, the beginnings of the oil industry, the global history of the University, and its present outlook. Special thanks to: Marco Antonio Michael C. Coldwell Jodie Double Rosie Dyson Andrew Edwards Brian Jarman Jairo Lugo-Ocondo University of Leeds International Office Richard Uttley Genre Storytelling Comment by user303747338 Great story, is there any info about photographs Bingley took at Cilurnum on 10-7-1900. Also are there any plans to publish a book of his photographs in the form of a summary of the archive? 2022-09-21T10:05:35Z
