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Summary This editorial recaps the journal’s first year of publication, highlighting newly introduced features and looking ahead to upcoming work.

Summary Three reels of photographs taken by Nigel Henderson reveal a visual lexicon of New Brutalism that links the 1953 Parallel of Life and Art exhibition and the Hunstanton School project completed in 1954.

Summary Draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the turn of the nineteenth century, focusing on the sale of paintings.

Summary This article and the accompanying reconstruction explore methods for representing lost displays, with an emphasis on visualising uncertainty and the mediated nature of period images.

Summary Looking at the palliative, diplomatic role played by photographic portraiture following the Indian Rebellion (1857–59), this article assesses how photography engaged with warfare’s social upheavals.

Summary Analyses Duncan Grant’s mural for the Borough Polytechnic, and the painting’s linkage of naked homosociality to a subtle figuration of desire that echoes E.M. Forster’s “only connect” dictum.

Summary This article re-examines Rowlandson’s ambitious caricature of the French in the context of his training at the Académie Royale in Paris, as well as the rise of public exhibitions and market for comic prints.

Summary Contributors discuss whether the current interest in the 1970s will prove anything more than another passing curatorial revival and generate its own inventive forms of practice and theory?

Summary A selection of photographs by Martin Parr that have come to define particular notions of what Britishness looks like.

Summary Video-recordings made at the conference Photography and Britishness, held at the Yale Center for British Art in November 2016.