New article alert! ‘Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000’. Just published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Fully open access, so please do share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
06.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0As someone who is in an academic department that is positively pullulating with global talent, I would just like to note the gratuitous, excessive emotional and financial stress and strain suffered by talented globals in the context of swingeing visa regimes and hostile environments.
06.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 56 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 0
New article alert! ‘Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000’. Just published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Fully open access, so please do share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
06.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, people, go listen to the amazing @mwilljones.bsky.social and Keith Williams talk about this mid 60s oddity. 🥹
04.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1It’s the time again - the magnificent Ayesha was kind enough to have me back on her utterly fantastic Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever podcast, this time talking moon monsters, steampunk Britain and First Men in the Moon. Such a fun episode and the podcast is always worth your time - check it out! 🌙 👾
04.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's been a while since I've shared my film/media history starter packs. Still adding more people! Feel free to make suggestions, share, and keep building the community! (Part II below)
go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5
Like Tories fleeing a sinking ship.
26.01.2026 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2
15.12.2025 12:44 — 👍 143 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 3
It may not be pretty, but this Khmer-spiced veggie shepherd’s pie was an absolute beast of a dinner!
28.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whisper it for now, but I’m starting to think I may actually finish everything I promised to do during my period of research leave…
24.11.2025 12:28 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your assumptions are not incorrect, and neither is your summary of spousal behaviour across the ages!
20.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My husband’s work - I cannot claim any talent in this area!
20.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ok, tis the season.
19.11.2025 23:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The BBC staff film society’s in-house magazine letters page in the summer of 1987 was an absolute ROLLERCOASTER
17.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My husband was just granted indefinite leave to remain in the U.K. and now I don’t know what we are going to do with all the drawer space freed up by not having to hold on to 5 years of utility bills, bank statements and council tax statements.
13.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whichever one of you ordered a sunset for 4.30pm is on my naughty list, I’m afraid.
04.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My brilliant friends and colleagues at @cinemaforall.bsky.social are popping up on ITV News at 6.30pm tomorrow (Weds) to talk about community cinema’s 100th anniversary. Check it out if you can - a taste of the film society life with your dinner!
04.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Awh shucks! 😉
28.10.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How am I supposed to focus on writing grant applications when Florence has a new album out on Friday?
28.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh look - it’s me popping up on Ayesha’s marvellous science fiction cinema podcast again! This time featuring triffids! Come have a listen - I had a proper giggle recording this.
28.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Community cinema and its 100th anniversary being celebrated in the Guardian today!!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We have lots coming up for #halfterm / #readingweek next week! Don't miss our #halloween trail, kids' shadow puppet workshop or our lunchtime talk about our 'Dinosaurs, Dragons & #Monsters' display - all free, all welcome! 🎃🍁 #museumsky #filmsky @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunilib.bsky.social
20.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
Impromptu weekend on Guernsey it is!
18.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's still time to apply for a Research Stipend 2025-6 - for #international & #UK-based #scholars, researchers & #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema & moving image #history. For more information & to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...
Episode 42 is detour and a lighthearted chat about one of those stories that connects people through shared refrences and humour.
Don’t Panic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide Phenomenon is out.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 If you want, that is.
📣 Exciting news!
We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history.
For more information and to apply, visit:
tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky
#SheffEvents #Today
20.09.2025 10:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s the day - the @cinemaforall.bsky.social gala event and 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition showcase at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield. I’m giving a guided exhibition tour at 3pm if anyone is nearby. Marking a century of community-led film exhibition in style!
20.09.2025 09:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Oh no. How dreadful. Having to discuss interesting things with lovely people! Such punishments you administer. I may die.
P.S. Can’t wait
