[…]ity. My mother jumped at that and I was pushed off into this job which I absolutely loathed. I sat there in the office not knowing what to do and I remember my first day, and I was sitting in this office and they said if the phone rings answer it. So after a few minutes the phone rang and a voice sa[…]
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly […]
[…] academic research, exhibitions, and festivals. We have also worked with the University of East Anglia, BAFTA, the David Lean Centre, BUFVC, the Bill Douglas […]
[…]h grew up in this environment where we were surrounded by journalists and journalism all the time. So that really was the only life we ever knew. I remember that. My mother when she started her magazine, we couldn't really afford to have the magazine collated, put together and stapled. By the printe[…]
[…] television show started coming out on a video on both VHS and Betamax. And the society was starting to build this library that it would then lend to members to have a listen to. And I remember getting my big list of all these recordings that society had got and asking for cassettes three at a time,[…]
[…] So, that was wonderful but the other wonderful thing was that they had a principle. All the lectures on all the different courses, and you have to remember these courses weren’t just in motion pictures, they were in graphic arts, they were in industrial X-Ray there were in medical X-Ray, there were[…]
[…]rocess. And you might argue that once the material is in the digital form it is easier. Well it’s easier but it’s still expensive and the lifetime of any particular format and production process gets shorter and shorter and shorter and I think that’s the great enemy of libraries an[…]
[…]Hamilton's flat in in Paddington with the four Shadwell sisters, the daughters of Charles Shadwell. And it's about him will start speaking, selecting members, right now we'll start as early as we can about him the year that he was born who's going toUnknown Speaker  0:45  need 1898? Right.[…]
[…] says to me, "I won't be able to do the coal any more" he says, "I think I'll get a little shop." He wasn't strong enough, you know. Although, in his lifetime he lived to over ninety, it's marvellous, living on fruit I think! So anyway, I went with the other Uncle then, who had an old T Ford, and I […]
