"This essay collection documents presentations given at the conference 'A Million Pictures. History, Archiving, and Creative Re-Use of Educational Magic Lantern Slides' that took place from 29 August - 1 September 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This conference was the summit of the collaborative research project 'A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Artefacts in the Common European History of Learning' (2015-2018), carried out by researchers from the Universities of Antwerp, Exeter, Girona, Salamanca and Utrecht as well as twenty associated partners from museums, archives, libraries and independent artists and performers."--Page 3