Learning on ScreenNews Archive for May, 2016
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Moving Image Gateway News
Published: 20 May 2016This Gateway includes over 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone (020 7393 1500). About Face Site which aims to equip girls and young women with the tools to resist media […]
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BBC White Paper on Media Legislation Reports
Published: 13 May 2016We have published the Government’s BBC White Paper on our Media Legislation Reports database, which covers the output of legislative bodies, broadcasters and media pressure groups. The White Paper outlines the Government’s proposals for the renewal of the BBC’s Royal Charter, which ends this year. Among the key points are the following: BBC employees and […]
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Archiving Tomorrow – Archives at Risk conference
Published: 13 May 2016This year’s Archiving Tomorrow conference ‘Archives at Risk’ takes place at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, 1 to 3 June. The conference will centre on a keynote speech from Lord David Puttman on the threats faced by historical audiovisual records. The event will also cover funding and investment strategies and how these can best be approached […]
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Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, and the history of aspect ratio: recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway
Published: 11 May 2016This Gateway includes over 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone. Jane Austen’s World Personal blog which features hundreds of links to a variety of resources about the life and work […]
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Shakespeare 400
Published: 6 May 2016The BBC continues its wealth of programming to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. On 8 May BBC Radio 3 broadcasts a new production of King Lear with Ian McDiarmid in the title role; Upstart Crow (9 May BBC2), a sitcom written by Ben Elton and David Mitchell, sees Mitchell playing Shakespeare in a raucous […]
