From January to March 2025, PhD research student, Ben Stoll, supervised by John Hill and Manishita Dass, visited the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas following the award of an AHRC Fellowship. While there, he researched material on Black British film and television in the Transcription Centre Archive. This included research on the history of a CIA-funded 1967 film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s early play, The Swamp Dwellers, produced in London. Ben’s thesis focuses on the ‘second wave’ of Black film, television and video in the 2010s and 2020s and its relationship to earlier moments of Black filmmaking activity.