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Articles on Film archives

March 17, 2023

Wales Broadcast Archive: UK’s first national archive shows importance of preserving our audiovisual history

Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University

The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.

May 19, 2020

Archives need to take action now.

May 18, 2020

Victoria Duckett, Deakin University

Under lockdown, Cineteca Milano is releasing 20 archived films a week online. Why aren’t we seeing this from our National Film and Sound Archive?

March 17, 2020

Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia

There are many gems of female filmmaking in the archives that have been overlooked and should be made accessible to contemporary audiences

Melanie Williams
Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia
Jamie Medhurst
Professor of Media and Communication, Aberystwyth University
Victoria Duckett
Associate professor, Deakin University
Ida R. Ahmad
PhD Candidate, Institute of Sustainable Heritage, UCL
Katherine Curran
Associate Professor, Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, UCL