Emily Rees discusses how private archives, like the C.O. Stanley Pye Collection, can offer invaluable insights into the history of media in Britain.
Our guest authors include researchers and students working with our collection, volunteers, friends of the museum, and representatives of other museums, charities and organisations we work with.
Dr Jane Frances, Policy Adviser in Education at Changing Faces, talks about how we look at faces and how different ways of seeing are represented in our In Your Face exhibition.
Touring Exhibitions Coordinator Sarah Hanson follows Only in England as the exhibition tours to the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury.
Samira Ahmed writes about the many different versions of Jane Eyre and how audiences through the years have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s classic.
Roger Highfield, our Director of External Affairs, spoke to director Baltasar Kormákur about his epic IMAX adventure Everest.
Artists-in-residence Martha Jurksaitis and Christian Hardy give us a taster of their Light Fantastic exhibit.
Behind the scenes of artists-in-residence Martha Jurksaitis and Christian Hardy’s research trip to Iceland.
Amanda Lynsdale discusses some of what she discovered while cataloguing the extensive BBC Collection, acquired in 2012.
Fiona Philip and Daniel Mutibwa of the University of Leeds write about their project to unlock the potential of our Daily Herald Archive.
Jamie Sefton looks ahead to the some of the gaming highlights for BAF 2014, including a very special talk from Colin Graham, Animation Director of bestselling action-adventure game Watch_Dogs.
Jack Hynes, Camera Assistant for Ammonite Films, explains how big a camera you’d need to film the smallest of insects.
Head of the museum at the time of the very first BIFF, Amanda Nevill recounts the early years of the festival and what role it plays in the industry today.