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Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. Media history nerd. Likes archives. Not actually Eve Arden.
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'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

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This cannot be said loudly or often enough.

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Ha! Yes, I read this last night and was trying to work out if it was an AI hallucination or put together by a 30 something who is close to committing murder if she has to spend another weekend and a bucket of money she doesn’t have on ‘celebrating’ other people’s love.

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flip book! "Dance Lesson: from the good old days" (1941) #mediaBeforeMedia

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This. These are people who generally left university after their undergraduate degree and most retain an undergraduate notion of what constitutes ‘research’.

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www.youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

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This is such sad news. Barb was a friend and a truly extraordinary archivist, someone genuinely interested in sharing her knowledge and the collections she managed as freely and widely as possible. The exact opposite of a gate-keeping archivist. A phenomenal loss for Hollywood historians. 💔

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Oh wow! 👏👏👏👏👏

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What fool gave a polar bear a saucepan? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Nicholas Brothers klaxon 📢

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Ooo ooo ooo! This means I have a constant excuse to talk about the origins of cinema: Viewed through a coin-operated peepshow device with communal earbuds.

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I think this is genuinely lovely - and the outline of it was obvious when I interviewed both of them, separately, in 1993 for my BBC production 'MeTV: The Future of Television'. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/s...

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Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer reimagined with biscuits/cookies, by Julia Timoshkova. The model is her daughter Antonina #Monday

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inevitably, the dots

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Fully funded PhD at Glasgow University as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Happy Eve Arden's birthday!

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

So... Beanie Walker. If you want to see silent movie title cards done right, Walker was the best to ever do it. Nobody came close.

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

Anita Loos at Palm Beach, Florida (with Cecil Beaton) - BOTD

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I’m not sure what’s crazier: the fact that this wasn’t already a rule, or the fact this absolutely has to be made a rule and is not something which all members automatically do.

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This remains totally outrageous. The National Library of Australia ought to be totally ashamed. And every Australian librarian should be writing to them in protest. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/u...

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A newspaper caricature comes to life in MY GRANDMOTHER, a surreal Georgian political satire

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@rgfarmer.bsky.social does @norloll.bsky.social realise he is responsible for an entire wave of British film historians self defining as film dweebs.

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rustling papers ‘If you bear with me one second, I appear to have list a page of the Shipping Forecast’ more rustling

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I fear these cats are staging an intervention. In most situations, any one of these cats is generally plenty judgy.

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Delighted to be accepted for #HWC25 at USC in July. And the timing works for a longer archive trip too. Planning UA records at Wisconsin, followed by more Goldwyn research at the Herrick.

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Contemporary UK artist Gail Brodholt, 'Up With the Larks', linocut #womensart #Monday

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