Back in July last year I had an idea. I had been interested for many years in eyewitness accounts of people’s experiences of cinema-going. I’d collected a lot of these while researching the early years of cinema in London, treasuring the special quality they had for making history come to life in all its untidy,Read More
I’m back. This site has suffered an attack from the gremlins and went down for a week. It’s a strange life when your virtual identity disappears, even if I do have several other websites and web feeds to reassure other denizens of the virtual world that I still exist (virtually). It makes you think thatRead More
256. I remember ‘It’s number one, it’s Top of the Pops!’ 257. I remember the heatwave of 1976, and how rain only started to fall soon after the unfortunate Denis Howell had been named as minister for drought 258. I remember the illustrated history books of R.J. Unstead 259. I remember when the 1970 WorldRead More
‘New ways of doing journalism‘ was the enticing title of a seminar held last night at City University in London. It brought together leading practitioners in the new modes of web-based news production whose success (social, and in some cases commercial) is challenging existing models and exciting a lot of people in he news world.Read More