The history of television culture and production
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 …
The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of London, has teamed up with the television archive organisation, Kaleidoscope, to co-host an event marking the fortieth anniversary of the BBC children’s TV drama, Grange 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 …
Electric Cinema, Birmingham 22 March 2018, 6.30pm, Screen 2 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) presents a special screening of the Ken Russell film, adapted for the BBC. Co-written by a young Melvyn Bragg, this ambitious work about 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 …
Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th November 2017 National Science and Media Museum, Bradford Pioneering ex-BBC television crews responsible for bringing colour into our homes in the late 1960s will bring TV history to life in the foyer Read More …
John Hill and Lisa Kerrigan of the British Film Institute presented the results of a survey, conducted in association with the Media Studies Commission of FIAT/IFTA, of academic archival access and forms of research collaboration undertaken by members of Fédération Read More …
On 3rd and 4th November 2017 the Centre is co-hosting two events in Belfast. These include some Forgotten TV Dramas on the evening of 3rd November and an all-day Missing Believed Wiped event on 4th November, supported by Northern Ireland Screen, Film Hub NI and the Belfast Film Festival. On Read More …