✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿

Thoughtful programmes examining culture in its widest, proper sense deserve this kind of thoughtful, lived response. #AWholeWayOfLife 🧵 👇

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Working Class Creativity Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.

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I normally bristle when my beloved BBCRadio4 semaphores ‘working class’—anticipating bourgeois voyeurism, sentimentality & catastrophism. The great BBCFreeThinking (mostly) evades these traps, despite the inevitable walk-ons for Ken Loach & Andrea Dunbar
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Muriel Box and the Truth About Women Directors Professor Melanie Williams presents her current research on the work of film director Muriel Box and her 1957 film The Truth About Women

Very pleased to be doing this upcoming online research seminar
for University of Reading's Film, Theatre & TV department: Wednesday 25 February, 14.00 - 15.30, "Muriel Box, 'The Truth About Women', and the truth about women directors" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muriel-box...

What Do We Know About Class in Television Studies? | Journal of British Cinema and Television This article offers a comprehensive overview of class in Television Studies, focusing on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Britain. We examine both off-screen and on-screen dynamics, investigating ...

Very excited to see our new paper from the project out in Journal of British Cinema and Television Studies, we hope you enjoy reading it! @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

🎧 Podcast Alert!
Happy New Year from the What’s On? team! 🎉
If you haven’t listened yet, check out our podcast episode exploring how social class shapes UK television: who gets in, what stories are told, and how audiences connect.
Listen here 👇 rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean.com/e/whats-clas...

Why does Netflix want to buy Warner Bros? To copy, not kill, traditional TV Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.

New article from me and Anthony Smith! Not-so-subtly promoting our new book "Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming Revolution" @theconversation.com @uk.theconversation.com

Episode 6 of HIT THE NORTH is unveiled! This week features another great guest, who is the first academic to appear on the show: the excellent Dr Laura Minor @lrjdmnr.bsky.social!

#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

🆕 Listen to the special episode recorded as part of our symposium for our @ukri.org funded project last September!! 🎙️ Featuring our PI @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC).
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there's a few more days of the @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale left! my book and so many wonderful others are 50% off till 11/9❣️

www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics...

PSA: Public Scholars

I'm working on a resources page for our website to help scholars find homes for their op-eds, guest blogs, and otherwise expertise.

If you run a site or podcast that regularly posts such things and would like us to share it as a potential place to pitch, please let me know!

COMMON PEOPLE: RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE ON CLASS IN TV AT A TIME OF CRISIS… Here is the full text of my opening keynote address given at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 'What’s Class Got to Do With It?' symposium on class and the UK TV industry at the School o...

Here is my recent keynote for @whatsontvclass.bsky.social given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social on Friday 19th - give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Many thanks to @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for inviting me to hang my metaphorical arse out in public...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies.

Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated.

People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

In "International media production, shooting locations, and illiberal spatial projects", Timothy Havens examines international media production in Budapest (HU) to think through the intersections of film/television locations and spatial politics. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Northern Broadsides

A free creative writing opportunity for 18–25 year olds in Yorkshire ✍

Applications are now open for Life in a Northern Town, a playwriting course led by Northern Broadsides.

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Photo of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

Photo of the table of contents of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The table covers 32 pages and says: • Credits & how to cite this zine. • Introduction Resources: • Intro to general book history • Intro to QUEER book history! • Teaching queer history toward • A model teaching approach • Black, Indigenous, POC + Queer • Broader BIPOC book history • Zines, community periodicals, DIY queer publishing history • Libraries, archives, museums • Archives & catalogues • Design & art. • Close readings • Ethics & justice re:gender & sexuality • Feminist 2SLGBTQIA+ • Community & conferences • Queer book history isn't past • Current book arts practitioners relevant to queer book history • Want more queer book history? • Back cover & reuse/ remix info

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

I'll be at Turton Local History Society, near Bolton, with 'Manchester and Bolton Portraits: fascinating figures from the region's past', on Thursday September 25th, 7.30pm, Harwood Methodist Church. Visitors £2. www.turtonhistory.com/2024/12/manc...

We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!

Poster for the class and TV symposium at the university of Leeds on 19th September 2025, to register contact WHATSONTVCLASS@GMAIL.COM

19th September @leedsunimedia.bsky.social! WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT? RETHINKING TV FROM THE INSIDE OUT
One Day Symposium
All welcome, registration & details on the excellent poster designed by @lrjdmnr.bsky.social

Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.

Thanks everyone who came to our panel yesterday at the Screen 2025 and for engaging so thoughtfully as we discussed how class continues to shape TV production, aesthetics, and working conditions @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social

Thanks so much, Helen! Was lovely meeting you in person 🥰

Many congratulations to all the New Generation Thinkers!

Great to see Sarah Smyth and @lrjdmnr.bsky.social recognised for their research and knowledge of #Womensfilmhisory and their leadership in the @wfthn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻

Looking forward to presenting our @UKRI What’s On project findings at #Screen25 in Glasgow this weekend in our panel “Returning to Class: Power, Aesthetics, and Labour in Contemporary Television @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social
@annaviolasborgi.bsky.social

Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉

Wonderful to see @whatsontvclass.bsky.social own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social is part of this fantastic list!