This is a list of Industry websites and resources that may be of interest to researchers. Please let us know of others that should be included.
www.apts.org.uk
The website of the Alexandra Palace Society. Includes information on the restoration of the Desmond Campbell collection of early TV photographs.
www.bbc.co.uk/heritage
Information on BBC history, research and collections.
www.bfi.org.uk
Website of British Film Institute and National Television Archive.
www.bksts.com
The International Moving Image Society otherwise known as the The British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society (BKSTS).
www.bufvc.ac.uk
Website for British Universities Film and Video Council, useful online database of moving images, as well as special collections and off-air recording.
www.culture.gov.uk
TV research and data information.
www.elstreescreenheritage.org
Elstree Screen Heritage archive project.
www.fiatifta.org
Information on international projects and professional standards.
www.focalint.org
Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries.
www.itn1955club.co.uk
Site dedicated to memories of the spirit of ITN; the ITN 1955 Club was formed in 1989.
www.ofcom.org.uk
TV research and data information.
www.screenonline.org.uk
The BFI’s encyclopedia of British Film and TV.
www.tech-ops.co.uk
Camera, sound and lighting technicians share their memories of the ‘golden age’ of television at the BBC.
www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk
Unofficial history of London’s television studios.
Academic Research into the History Project
Andrew Dawson (University of Greenwich School of Humanities) and Sean P Holmes‘ (School of Arts at Brunel University) paper Help to Preserve the Real Story of our Cinema and Television Industries: The BECTU History Project and the Construction of British Media History, 1986 – 2010is to be published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in December 2012 or March 2013. BECTU’s journal Stage, Screen and Radio ran a feature on the research in the April/May 2012 issue. Read the article here.