Come see this lovely short season at the BFI! Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives As leading figures in British cinema, Tina Gharavi & Gurinder Chadha’s work remains relevant for both current and future audiences. @womensscreenwork.bsky.social #BFI whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Interesting training event at TNA: PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain - Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...

Very pleased that the book Sue and I edited, The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context, has just come out in paperback (so a bit cheaper!). www.routledge.com/The-Material...

The British Museum is also to be held responsible for this decision - they should care about the potential/probably damage as much as the French conservators. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Interesting & critical review of the new V&A Storehouse by @profdanhicks.bsky.social artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

Laura Mulvey to receive the BFI Fellowship this year: www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...

It's that time again, The BFI National Archive will be opening it's doors for a behind the scenes days of tours for Heritage Open Day 2025 www.tickettailor.com/events/bfihe...

Whilst I generally avoid arguing with idiots on social media, I can’t help feeling very happy that I’ve just irritated a transphobe by telling her to ‘talk to the hand cos the face ain’t listening’. Maybe it’s the wine as I know it’s a silly comeback.

Home working in school hols: Me: I'm working & need to concentrate, don't interrupt for a bit. 5 mins later son runs to me: Son: There's a big problem. Me: What? Son: I don't know how to say it, but I need you to come. Me: Just tell me what it is. Son: I've got a bit of slime stuck to a newspaper.

'Failure of aid'. What a joke this guy is.

The ICO is taking action against the Cabinet Office because of lengthy and unexplained FOI delays. In a new practice recommendation the ICO is highly critical of the Cabinet Office approach to FOI, telling it to supply quarterly updates for monitoring of its future performance.

Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.

The wonderful Connie Francis has passed away. One of my favourite records to listen to growing up was my mum's Connie Francis album. Such a tragic life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5i...

Academia.edu informed me they have an AI review of my book. Out of curiosity, I looked at it. What a depressing experience to read a computer generated 'review' What's worse is that others may read this and accept it as is. Soulless.

Our amazing BFI Special Collections Archives Assistant, Eva Norton, wrote this week's Object of the Week, a promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...

Bringing together the many ‘cides’ inflicted on Palestine with the hope of the ‘accidental and piecemeal archive’ newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...

Overheard snippet of a phone conversation on the train tonight: "I have to let my facial hair grow out for the film" Person on the other end of the phone responds. Then he says, in a mildly irate tone "Well, I don't really have a choice, do I?" Guessing his partner doesn't like a hairy man.

The BFI National Archive's first Object of the Week! This piece is by my wonderful former boss, Nathalie Morris. The wallpaper has had some excellent conservation work by or brilliant paper conservator, Tabitha Austin: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...

It was so great to be at #DWFTH7 in Lincoln and to present our project’s first steps. Thanks for the insightful comments and discussion from the audience #womensscreenwork #femfilmhistory #archives @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @bellecobb.bsky.social @archiveswendy.bsky.social

Our AHRC Project Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible now has a bluesky account! Do follow @womensscreenwork.bsky.social

‘For a largely self-taught young woman of that period, such a career was remarkable – near impossible for a Black woman. But Greene moved through the world as white.’ Francesca Wade on Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan’s librarian at the turn of the 20th century: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Women’s screen work project team assemble for #DWFTH7 ! Really excited to present work in progress together for the first time at the excellent Doing Women’s Film & TV History conf and talk with other scholars of #femfilmhist

'Dallas struggles to keep the archive afloat. The Scottish government paid the first 2 years’ rent...But the archive has no core funding & Dallas doesn’t receive a salary. She is determined to keep her weekly tours free, but relies on visitors...to make a donation.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hear about the BFI's Star Wars print and Ann Skinner's continuity script for the film. And my wonderful colleague, Kay, wrote about our recent research showcase: blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage event: Black Heritage Voices 2025: The Importance of Black Archives in Preserving Historical Memory www.serendipity-uk.com/event/black-...

My brilliant colleagues at the BFI made this Sensory ASMR tour. A particular shout out to Lily and Kay in Special Collections, who have been doing a superb job auditing our paper collections. m.youtube.com/watch?v=nMRp...

Mobile phones have made emergency waiting rooms even more unbearable than they already were. When did society decide earphones just aren’t necessary?

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

very proud to have been involved in the development of this report, for which I also wrote the afterword, being launched by the All Party Parliamentary Group in London today www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

‘The Gothic horrors – snow, violence, madness – are all present in Walser’s plot, but there is enough comedy in it to make the scary funny.’ Anna Aslanyan watches Stanley Schtinter’s film 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯, based on a text by Robert Walser: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

BFI Special Collections have two vacancies for a Curator and Assistant Curator. Come join our lovely team! bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk

It's out folks! Conference programme, list of abstracts and tickets for #CALC25. All details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/calccon... #LISResearch #LISConference

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

To celebrate #NationalLottery Open Week, #BFI are offering fourteen lucky film fans (plus a guest) a chance to explore the BFI National Archive on Thu 20 Mar! Enter now by Fri 7 Mar. www.bfi.org.uk/competitions...

Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration 📜 www.arl.org/news/associa...

🎬🍿Join us! Screening & discussion of “Making Fiction Flow” on work of script supervisor Penny Eyles (credits include Kes, 1969, Time Bandits, 1981 and Orlando, 1992). 18th February 2025, 5.15pm. Room: SR (LG.16), Michael Sadler building @universityofleeds.bsky.social @feministbell.bsky.social

The brilliant BFI Curator, Jo Botting: The forgotten Technicolor fashion-world drama: It Started in Paradise www.bfi.org.uk/features/for...

‘The film’s achievement is to uphold a Romantic or broadly humanist faith in heedlessness’s inherent creativity, while at the same time describing from within the damage done by institutional neglect.’ David Trotter on Ken Loach and 𝘒𝘦𝘴: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

So happy to share that we'll be running a Wikipedia workshop in AK Bell library on 8 March - International Women's Day. Free but booking essential as places are limited. No editing experience needed but tablet / laptop will be handy #IWD2025 #PerthScotland www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/wom...

Our brilliant BFI Archives Assistant, Eva, on the Special Collections' Show and Tell #WomanWithAMovieCamera blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

The symposium will also be livestreamed on the BFI's YouTube channel. See here for further information: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-.... #digipres #archives

Had such an enjoyable day at #WomanWithAMovieCamera with @helenexeter.bsky.social and @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social doing a panel on script supervisors. Also got to show attendees some items from BFI Special Collections - what a fantastic and engaged crowd!

We're kicking off the new semester with another edition of our Working Paper Series on January 23rd, 4:30pm EST on Zoom. We'll be hosting a postdoc roundtable featuring presentations and discussions from four speakers: Erika Biddle, Ylenia Olibet, Mikhel Proulx, and @axelledemus.bsky.social