An Unreliable Record Opening
July 10, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
In 1917, two girls set off into the woods of West Yorkshire to make some magic. Elsie, aged 16, and Frances, aged 9, borrowed a quarter-plate camera to prove that their fairy friends were real. Although the authenticity of the images (referred to by historians as the Cottingley fairies photographs) has been routinely called into question, […]