This post is from Lily Ford, a historian and producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. Find out more about her research at lilyfordresearch.com. Filmmaking became a particularly solitary experience during lockdown. I had the task of making a documentary about a woman who had spent most of her life on another continent, engaged in a…
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This feature is from Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology at Birkbeck, University of London. Fiona’s last book, ‘Micromuseology’, was an analysis of small independent museums and included a chapter on the Bakelite Museum, which is the subject of the film featured here. She is the principal investigator on a large scale research project called ‘Mapping…
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This feature is from Robyn Jakeman, a producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. It first appeared as a ‘scrapbook’ feature in May 2020, for Birkbeck Arts Weeks. Keywords In 1948, when Raymond Williams was working as a teacher in adult education after studying at the University of Cambridge, T. S. Eliot’s Notes Towards the Definition…
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This feature is from Bartek Dziadosz, a filmmaker and manager of the Derek Jarman Lab. This post first appeared as a ‘scrapbook’ feature in May 2020, for Birkbeck Arts Weeks. First, a few words about the book: Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders (1957) was the first major critical assessment of the advertising industry’s use of motivational research.…
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This feature is from Lily Ford, a historian and long-time producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. Lily did her PhD in Birkbeck’s History of Art department and published an illustrated history of aviation, Taking to the Air, with British Library Publishing in 2018. She’s currently researching a series of women from behind the scenes of…
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