Its acquisition from Bradford of 400,000 priceless historic photographs, some from the dawn of the medium, had been denounced as an “appalling act of cultural vandalism”. So the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London’s Knighstridge, was choosing its words carefully yesterday as it unveiled the exhibition space it has developed for them. http://bit.ly/2If3cpP http://bit.ly/2If3cpP+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra