Centre for Broadcasting History Research - Track Record of Publications and Awards
Publications
Chignell, Hugh. 'The use of online databases in a university broadcasting archive' with Julia McCain and Matt Holland in Fraser, M. (ed.) Digital Evidence: Selected Papers from DRH2000, Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, University of Sheffield, September 2000 (London: King's College, 2001).
Chignell, Hugh.BBC Handbooks, Accounts and Annual reports (1927-2002) (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2003).
Chignell, Hugh. BBC Radio 4’s Analysis and Africa. The Radio journal: International Studies in Broadcast and audio Media Volume 1 Number 2. (2003)
Chignell, Hugh. The Birth of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis. Journal of Radio Studies Volume 13 Number 1.(2006)
Chignell, Hugh With John Devlin in ‘John Peel’s Home Truths’ . The Radio Journal: InternationalStudies in Broadcast and Audio Media Volume 4. (2007, forthcoming)
Chignell, Hugh. ‘BBC current affairs radio in the 1960s, populism and reaction.’ In M.Bailey (ed.) Narratives of Media History. (London: Routledge 2007, forthcoming);
Chignell, Hugh. Key Concepts in Radio Studies. (London: Sage 2008,forthcoming)
Holland , M. . Tools and techniques for locating, retrieving and storing electronic text, in Daymon, C. and Holloway, I. , Qualitative Research Methods in Public Relations and Marketing Communications ( London : Routledge; 2002).
Holland, P. 'Three young women from Palestine ' in Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi (eds) Media War ( London Lawrence and Wishart/Barefoot Publications).
Holland, P. 'Little Ali and other rescued children' in David Miller (ed) Tell me lies, propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq ( London ; Pluto).
Holland , P. Picturing Childhood; the myth of the child in popular imagery ( London : I.B.Tauris).
Holland, P. 'Sweet it is to scan..: personal photographs and popular photography' in Liz Wells (ed.) Photography: a critical introduction ( London : Routledge 3rd edition).
Holland, P. 'The politics of the smile: 'soft news' and the sexualisation of the popular press' in Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner (eds) Critical Readings: Media and Gender Maidenhead: Open University Press, rep[rinted from Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan (eds) News, Gender and Power (London : Routledge).
Holland , P. "The Angry Buzz, This Week and Current Affairs Television" (IB Tauris, January 2006)
McCain, J . 'Women in Libraries' chapter in A History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland , ed. Peter Hoare, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005).
Pullen, P. Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Documentary Film and Reality Television (McFarland, forthcoming in 2006)
Pullen, P. 'The Household, the Basement and The Real World: Gay Identity in the Constructed Reality Environment' in Holmes, Su and Jermyn, Deborah (editors) Understanding Reality TV (Routledge, 2004).
Pullen, P. 'Gay Performativity and Reality Television: Alliances, Competition and Discourse' in James Keller and Leslie Strayner (editors) The New Queer Aesthetic on Television: Essays on Recent Programming (McFarland, 2005)
Pullen, P. ‘The Films of Ducastel and Martineau: Gay Identity, Family and Autobiographical Self’ in Griffiths, Robin (editor) Queer Cinema in Europe (Intellect, forthcoming in 2006)
Pullen, P. ‘Non-heterosexual characters in post-war television drama: from covert identity and stereotyping, towards reflexivity and social change’ in Godiwala, Dimple (editor) Queer Theatre (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).
Street, S. Historical Dictionary of British Radio (Scarecrow Press, 2006).
Street S. Crossing the Ether: Pre-War Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition (John Libbey, 2005).
Street S. A Concise History of British Radio (Kelly Publication, 2002).
Street, S. The Shadowed Garden (Dymock Poets Journal, no. 3, Spring 2004).
Street, S. Radio Waves [ed.] (Enitharmon Press, 2004).
Street, S. Mathias (Dragonfly Productions, touring, 2004).
Awards
Over the last five years, the Broadcasting History Group has been awarded funding to support a number of projects which have both preserved and increased accessibility to valuable and frequently vulnerable broadcasting history archives. To date all completed awards have been awarded the maximum grade.
| Project Title: | Central Southern England Independent Local Radio 1975-1986 Digitisation |
| Applicant: | Professor Sean Street |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | July 2006 |
| Amount Awarded: | £85,290 |
| Description: | The project is to digitally preserve and catalogue from speech recordings from local commercial stations operating within the central southern region of the United Kingdom between 1975 and 1986. That material in its analogue form resides in the Wessex Film and Sound Archive at the Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, and represents a style and structure of commercial broadcasting now gone forever. Additionally, it chronicles significant social events within the region, making it of intrinsic historical value to both local and national scholars and broadcasters. |
| Project Title: | Radio 4 Analysis Programme Archive |
| Applicant: | Matt Holland |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | May 1999 |
| Amount Awarded: | £3,379 |
| Description: | First broadcast in 1970, the Radio 4 Analysis series is best described as the "journalism of ideas". The aim of this project has been to create a single centre for material relating to Analysis programmes (Analysis Online) to support research, integrating multiple media formats, scripts (paper), recordings (analogue sound), interviews with programme makers, (digital sound & text), and a catalogue of programmes (digital text). |
| Project Title: | A database for academics concerning This Week, a television current affairs series, 1956-1992 |
| Applicant: | Dr Victoria Wegg-Prosser |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | January 2000 |
| Amount Awarded: | £4,677 |
| Description: | This project collated a large body of research on This Week, compiled by expert researchers from many sources, and enter it into a purpose-built database capable of interrogation to facilitate further research. The database shares a subject index of current affairs with Analysis Online, with links to transcriptions of interviews with journalists and producers. |
| Project Title: | Monograph on THIS WEEK |
| Applicant: | Pat Holland |
| Funder: | Royal Television Society, The Shiers Trust |
| Date of Award: | 1 September 2000 |
| Description: | Project to research into the history of the television series THIS WEEK with a view to publishing a monograph. |
| Project Title: | Project to Digitise the Archive of the Independent Local Radio (ILR) Programme Sharing Scheme. |
| Applicant: | Professor Sean Street |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | November 2000 |
| Amount Awarded: | £68,756 |
| Description: | This project is now complete and the entire Programme Sharing Archive, consisting of 1,570 quarter-inch analogue audio tapes has been digitised. This archive is a unique record of a key time in the history of British commercial radio, in danger of being obliterated forever as the oxide on the original tapes progressively degenerates. The collection also created a catalogue of data captured from the Programme Sharing Information Sheets. |
| Project Title: | TV Times Digitisation Project |
| Applicant: | Professor John Ellis |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | November 2001 |
| Amount Awarded: | £163,911 |
| Description: | This project, which is about to end, has see the the TV Times, since from its foundation in September 1955 until 1985 digitise and the data entered into a purpose built database. Its listings include details of participants and creative teams and summaries of programmes, along with editorial copy. These listings are in many cases the only traces left by the swathes of routine television programming that have not been preserved. |
| Project Title: | A database for academics concerning This Week, a television current affairs series, 1956-1992 |
| Applicant: | Patricia Holland |
| Funder: | Arts & Humanities Research Board |
| Date of Award: | November 2004 |
| Amount Awarded: | £25,062 |
| Description: | This project aims to enhance the This Week database by inputting the remainder of the material, creating links, and transferring the physical archive to Bournemouth University to be catalogued. The database will be launched through the BUFVC as part of a wider broadcasting history project. |
| Project Title: | Central Southern England Commercial Radio Digitisation Project |
| Applicant: | Professor Sean Street |
| Funder: | Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Date of Award: | November 2006 |
| Amount Awarded: | £89,000 |
| Description: | This project, a partnership between the Centre for Broadcasting History Research and the Wessex Film and Audio Archive based at Hampshire Records Office, Winchester , is to preserve and disseminate valuable analogue audio archives from the early days of Commercial Radio in the south of England . As such, the project is complementary to the previously completed ILR Programme sharing Archive digitisation project. Stations included in the archive are Radio victory, Radio 210, (Reading ) 2CR FM ( Bournemouth ) and Ocean Sound. The period includes major international events which had major impacts on local communities within the area, including the Falklands War. For this reason, the material is inherently important to historians, as well as providing snapshots of UK Commercial Radio in its developing years. |
| Project Title: | LBC/IRN Audio Archive Digitisation Project |
| Applicant: | Professor Sean Street |
| Funder: | Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) |
| Date of Award: | February, 2007 |
| Amount Awarded: | £759,405 |
| Description: | The LBC/IRN Audio Archive, deposited with the Centre for Broadcasting History Research by LBC Radio, is the largest and most Commercial Radio Archive in the UK , and the only significant radio news and current affairs archive outside the BBC. From the birth of commercial radio in 1973, until 1992, LBC and Independent Radio News were linked companies, and from this period come many hours of unique radio broadcasting, in which new styles of reporting and news provision were explored. The project will provide through the dissemination of the material to all levels of education within the UK , a rich and unique resource reflecting major political events in the UK and beyond, giving a vivid picture of history in the making. View project webpage View this news story for more information |
