The history of television culture and production
The proceedings if the ‘Channel 4: Then and Now’ conference are now available to view. Held at BFI Southbank, 23-4 September 2022 on the occasion of the Channel’s 40th anniversary, the conference covered a wide range of topics, both past Read More …
The views of Belfast people experiencing the cultural upheaval of the 1960s and the onset of the Troubles were brought back to life in a powerful video exhibition curated by PhD researcher Rose Baker as part of the 2022 Belfast Read More …
The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden will be broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday 13 November. Presented by David Olusoga, the documentary is a companion-piece to Storytrails, focusing on the hidden and untold stories of one of England’s Read More …
A restored vintage 1960s BBC outside broadcast van visited Founders Square on 20 October to coincide with the BBC’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The Department of Media Arts and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production invited the Broadcast Television Technology Trust Read More …
Following its 15-location tour across the UK, StoryTrails will be at BFI IMAX Waterloo for a special residency from Friday 23 September until Sunday 2nd October. This will bring hundreds of different stories and experiences together for the first time. Read More …
The BBC at 100 Symposium is taking place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online, 13-15 September 2022. Organised by BBC 100 History Fellow, Marcus Collins, the symposium aims to take stock of research about the Read More …
With the BFI, we are organising this two day conference on the history and current state of Channel 4. This is part of BFI Southbank’s celebration of 40 years of Channel 4 in advance of its November anniversary. Royal Holloway’s Read More …
Professor John Ellis discussed his groundbreaking book Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video, first published in 1982, at the ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What’ conference at the University of Kent on 8 July 2022: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/tvaesthetics/ His talk is now available online at Read More …
The UK’s largest immersive storytelling project StoryTrails is beginning its tour of the UK in 15 locations, starting in Omagh on 1-2 July 2022. Drawing on television archival material from the BBC, the BFI and regional collections, the project involves Read More …
A Special Issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (Vol 19:2) on ‘Play for Today at 50’, edited by John Hill, has been published online. In addition to Hill’s contributions this volume includes a range of articles by Read More …