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The best Photography History newsletters

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unseenhistories.com· weekly· Published today

Unseen Histories is a web publication and newsletter that recommends new history books, runs author interviews and publishes long-form historical essays. Recent issues cover the Cottingley Fairies photographs, the postwar 43 Group fight against British fascism, and a monthly roundup of forthcoming history titles.

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gardenofmemory.net· weekly· Published 3 days ago

Historian Sean Munger shares short essays on overlooked episodes of the past, from the cold summer that inspired Frankenstein to early color photography and a lost 18th-century art shipment. Each issue combines archival detail, personal asides and a point about how the past still shapes the present.

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