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This week in the @iamhist Blog, Andrew Shail and Marie-Claire Rackham-Mann delve into the concept of falsehood as presented live on national UK television, with a focus on the case study of 'Alice Hyde: The First "Miss World"': iamhist.net/alice-hyde-the…

Thanks to @iamhist for asking us to contribute something on our project. You can, of course, access our toolkit here: uea.ac.uk/groups-and-cen…

This week in the @iamhist Blog, Sarah Arnold & @KeithMJohnston write on their @EAFAAmateurFilm AHRC/IRC-funded project 'Women in Focus: Developing a Feminist Approach to Film Archive Metadata and Cataloguing' & the development of their archive toolkit: iamhist.net/bringing-women…

Call for Submissions: The Culbert Family Book Prize 2024: iamhist.net/culbert-family… The prize is awarded on behalf of the Culbert family for outstanding works on the history of ways in which media, public opinion, politics and diplomacy interact. Deadline: 15 December 2024

IAMHIST is pleased to announce that Dan Chyutin and Yael Mazor have co-edited a special issue on 'Israeli Film Culture Through its Paratexts', in the Journal of Jewish Identities, developed via the @iamhist Challenge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/issue/55… Congratulations! 🥳

Are you an emerging filmmaker/creative who loves archive film? The @Screenocean @makefilmhistory Challenge with @sheffdocfest gives access to over 1 million archive clips for creative reuse in a new short film which could screen at next year’s festival: sheffdocfest.com/reuters-screen…

Delighted to announce that Ross Melnick is the winner of the Culbert Family Memorial Book Prize 2024 for his publication Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)! iamhist.net/winner-culbert…

I'm happy to announce that my article on the postwar careers of the film stars Kristina Söderbaum and Hans Albers has just been published. @fh_kiel @iamhist Free online copies can be downloaded here: tandfonline.com/eprint/PASTGFX…

Updated Summer 2025 books for review in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: iamhist.net/journal/#books… Please contact Veronica Johnson should you be interested in reviewing a particular title ([email protected])

Call for Candidates - @iamhist Council Election 2025: For further details, please visit iamhist.net/call-for-candi… Deadline for expressions of interest to the Election Committee is 10 April 2025

Registration now open for the @iamhist Conference, 'Decentering Media Histories and Practices', 30 June - 2 April 2025 @FilmandMediaUCT ❤️ Looking forward to seeing those who can make it there: iamhist.net/registration-i…

Huge congratulations to @NoraBorealis7 for being awarded the @iamhist-Michael Nelson Book Prize in 2025 for Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution (Illinois University Press, 2024)! ❤️ iamhist.net/iamhist-michae…

For the first piece published in the @iamhist Blog this year, Enes Akdağ (Üsküdar University, Turkey), writes on on the innovative cinema manager, Leon Sirochkin, who historically managed cinema halls in Istanbul/Kadıköy: iamhist.net/sirochkin-of-k…

Call for Papers Reminder: Decentering Media Histories and Practices, IAMHIST Conference 2025 (University of Cape Town, South Africa, 30 June - 2 July 2025) - Deadline for Paper Proposals = 17 January 2025: iamhist.net/call-for-paper…

Reminder: Call for Papers - IAMHIST Conference 2025, 'Decentering Media Histories and Practices', @FilmandMediaUCT, University of Cape Town (South Africa). Deadline for Proposals: 10 January 2025. Details: iamhist.net/call-for-paper…

Latest list of books for review available in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (HJFRT) (Winter 2024): iamhist.net/journal/#books…

Reminder, Call for Papers: 'Decentering Media Histories and Practices', @iamhist Conference 2025 (30 June to 2 July, @FilmandMediaUCT, South Africa). Deadline for proposals: 20 December 2024. Further details: iamhist.net/call-for-paper…

Call for Papers: IAMHIST Master Class, 6 February 2025 (LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium), for graduate & doctoral students, post-docs or professionals working in #audio #visualcreation #film #radio #television #mediahistory. Details: iamhist.net/call-for-paper…