Drawing from materials held in the Val Williams Archive, now housed at the Library of Birmingham, and from other archives owned by individuals and organizations, it will narrate a story of development and change in the British cultural sector from the early 1970s onwards. It will be a story of people and event, as well as of photography, curatorship and writing, charting the beginnings of the emergence of British independent photography and curatorship, examining the ways in which projects were begun and developed, looking at a landscape which altered as tastes changed and cultural policies fluctuated.