The history of television culture and production
Play for Today was launched on BBC1 in October 1970 and ran until 1984, commanding audiences of several millions. It is generally recognised to be one of the important series ever of British television dramas, responsible for over 300 single Read More …
Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Nick Hall and John Ellis, and containing articles by ADAPT project researchers John Ellis, Nick Hall and Amanda Murphy, is now available as an open Read More …
Professor John Hill has secured an AHRC-funded TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award involving the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Northern Ireland Screen and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Following the transfer of the majority of Read More …
The ADAPT TV Project, funded by the European Research Council and led by Professor John Ellis, has won an award for best online education resource at the Learning on Screen Awards 2019 for its ‘how television used to be made’ Read More …
As part of the ADAPT project into the history of the uses of television technology, both Tim Heath and Rowan Aust have now successfully completed their PhDs on the history of British television production practices. Tim’s research focused on the Read More …
A consortium led by James Bennett, Co-Director of the Television Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been named by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of nine successful bids to host an ambitious research Read More …
The ADAPT Social Media Project team has now published their final report: ‘Adapting to Social Media: Commerce, Creativity and Competition in UK Television Production’ by James Bennett and Niki Strange (May 2018). The report is free to download here. The Read More …
A special issue, on Scottish television drama, of Visual Culture in Britain (Volume 18, Issue 3) inspired by ‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project and drawing on papers delivered at the ‘Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Read More …
Following the release of The Frighteners on DVD in May 2017 there have been four more releases this year in the Forgotten TV Drama DVD range (in association with Network). The second release comprised three Nigel Kneale plays. The Crunch Read More …
A special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Volume 37, Number 1, 2017) edited by Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart, has now appeared. The articles contained in this issue derive from our conference, ‘Television Read More …