
Explore Bath's world heritage
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One of the best preserved Roman remains in the world.
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A world-class collection of contemporary and historical dress.
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Bath's public art museum housing paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
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Stunning and historic venues for hire in the heart of a World Heritage city.
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Collecting and keeping safe historical records relating to Bath.
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The City of Bath is designated with UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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Promoting and assisting film-making in Bath & North East Somerset.
Within the Record Office collections there are images in many different formats: printed and negative photographs, glass slides, transparencies, engravings and lithographs, sketchbooks, scrapbooks and original artworks.
There are few catalogue entries for the image collections, but the Archives and Local Studies collections do hold printed indexes to some of these collections which staff can use to help you find images that may be of interest to you.
Local Studies
The Bath in Time website acts as a finding aid for many of the Local Studies collections, including the loose prints, photographs, glass slides, and three major scrapbook collections (Hunt, Russell, Chapman).
Local Studies hold hundreds of glass slides, including: the Mowbray Green slides used in the preparation of his work on 18th century architecture; and the collection of George Love Dafnis, a turn of the 20th century amateur photographer who provided many familiar views of the area as they were published as postcards.
We also hold the image collections of the Bath Chronicle 1970-2007 that were donated when the newspaper moved their offices. The majority of this collection has not been digitised, although there are some subject areas covered on Bath in Time, such as the Bath Blitz and Royal Visits.
Archives
The Archives have a core collection of printed photographs in the PX/ series, a few of which are listed on the catalogue. There are additional photographs, slides, glass slides, albums and other images spread throughout the archives in various collections, but very few of these have been systematically catalogued or digitised.
The main collections include:
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