The history of television culture and production
PhD researcher Jess Boyall has co-curated an exhibition, series of screenings and live performance programme at Ormside Projects, 24th – 28th November 2024. Drawing on the London Community Video Archive’s extensive collection, the programme showcases films, live performances, and sonic Read More …
BBC Northern Ireland began broadcasting over the radiowaves in 1924 and to coincide with this anniversary the Belfast Film Festival put together a special archive television event around the first programme to be made locally, Ulster Mirror. Launched in 1954, Read More …
Professor John Hill and PhD student Rose Baker were both speakers at the Irish Screen Studies Seminar at Ulster University, Belfast, 7-8 May 2024. John delivered a keynote address on Irish screen studies in tribute to his friend and former Read More …
Two researchers, supervised by Professor John Hill and involved in the work of the Centre, have successfully completed their PhDs. Daryl Perrins’ thesis entitled ‘They Can’t Stop Us Singing’: Film, Television and the Representation of the Welsh Working Class’ provides Read More …
The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce a TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This fully-funded studentship will focus on British television Read More …
The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission is hosting an international seminar ‘Rethinking Broadcast Archives: Dig, Deconstruct, Display’ at BFI Southbank, London on December 8th 2023. This will bring researchers and media professionals together to consider archival opportunities and new ways of engaging Read More …
A special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television ((Vol 20 No3) on film, television and Northern Ireland, co-edited by John Hill and Julian Petley, has just been published. Along with a number of articles on film and Read More …
All are invited to the following event: Material Ecologies of Media and Their Histories 22-23 June 2023, Senate House, London, Room 104 Organised by Olga Goriunova, David Young, JP Kelly, Nick Hall and Hugh Hammond Supported by the Department of Read More …
An internal conference on the future of television studies involving television researchers in the School of Performing and Digital Arts who will discuss their work and the future direction of television studies both within the School and the discipline more 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 …