{"id":601,"date":"2022-08-25T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/?page_id=601"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T08:39:43","slug":"upcoming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/upcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>In conversation: Television Pioneers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Ally Pally&#8217;s 150th Birthday Party 27 May 2023 16.30 &#8211; 18.00 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer look at pioneering women in Ally Pally\u2019s Television Story from the University of Sussex\u2019s <em>Connected Histories of the BBC<\/em> team: Vicky Ball, Margaretta Jolly, Kate Murphy and Emma Sandon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for conversation and oral history tales about pioneering women who worked at Alexandra Palace, the legendary television studio. The event is part of a massive free birthday party at Ally Pally, including ice skating, street food, music and tours of the beautiful Victorian cinema and production rooms. Don&#8217;t miss an amazing, once-in-150-years, opportunity to explore hidden corners of the Palace and the award-winning 196 acre Park. The party will run from 12pm \u2013 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-alexandra-palace wp-block-embed-alexandra-palace\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jODkP6vDVl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandrapalace.com\/whats-on\/in-conversation-television-pioneers\/\">In conversation: Television Pioneers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;In conversation: Television Pioneers&#8221; &#8212; Alexandra Palace\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alexandrapalace.com\/whats-on\/in-conversation-television-pioneers\/embed\/#?secret=6i5VB4pDPs#?secret=jODkP6vDVl\" data-secret=\"jODkP6vDVl\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Website launch marks project completion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted on14 March 2023&nbsp;by&nbsp;John Hughes&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/2021\/11\/25\/public-events\/#respond\">No Comments \u2193<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1133\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2023\/03\/Connected-Histories-2-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Seatter, Head of BBC History, Broadcasting House 19 Oct 2022<\/p>\n<p>On 19 October 2022, friends and collaborators of the Connected Histories of the BBC project gathered in the Council Chamber of the BBC\u2019s Broadcasting House in London to mark the completion of the project and the launch of our publicly accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/chbbc.sussex.ac.uk\/\">website<\/a> which opens up the collection to all. As a result, more than 600 hours of recorded interviews with people from across the BBC and beyond are now freely accessible at the click of a button.<\/p>\n<p>We also unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/historyofthebbc\/100-voices\/inventingthefuture\/\">Inventing the Future<\/a>, the final edition of nine themed collections of oral history clips, documents, programme and interpretations. Over the years the BBC has sought not just to reflect society but to change it for the better \u2013 whether through widening access to education, countering prejudice and disinformation, developing new technology, or cultivating fresh artistic talent. This grand &#8216;Reithian&#8217; vision, first set out in the 1920s, has been attacked many times for being paternalistic. But, as this latest release shows, it\u2019s also proven to be a remarkably durable ethos \u2013 one that insiders say has had a striking &#8216;real world&#8217; influence. See more about this chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/100-voices\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among those speaking at the event were the Head of BBC History, Robert Seatter, pictured here, Project Co-Investigator Dr Alban Webb, Project Administrator and metadata-lead Denice Penrose, Professor Christopher Smith from AHRC, Founder-Director Professor David Hendy and Project Advisory Board member Professor Jean Seaton. The Project\u2019s Principal Investigator, Margaretta Jolly, told the audience that \u201coral history promises magical connections. It has been championed as the method of choice for the excluded, undocumented, and forgotten. Because of this, many oral historians in this country have been suspicious of corporate oral history. But what we are celebrating here tonight, as with so much of the BBC, disrupts the cliches of corporation and heritage memory-making. We are looking forward to sharing what we\u2019ve done in \u2018connecting\u2019 up oral histories of this amazing institution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The event also celebrated the publication of the paperback edition of David Hendy\u2019s best-selling book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbchistoryresearch\/entries\/89b18cc6-de10-4750-a748-2ecf47877686\">The BBC: A People\u2019s History<\/a>. David Hendy\u2019s deeply humanising approach to the Corporation\u2019s story is aimed to show that public service broadcasting is something that\u2019s been shaped and re-shaped over the past century by thinking, feeling, fallible individuals \u2013 flesh-and-blood people, with passions, prejudices, and ideals. As he thoughtfully concluded, \u201cThe BBC is not \u2013 or at least, not yet \u2013 a machine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2>Lewes Literary Society<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>David Hendy, the author of The BBC: A People\u2019s History talked at the Lewes Literary Society on 18th October 2022. Full details can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewesliterarysociety.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.lewesliterarysociety.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" width=\"839\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy-100x82.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy-200x164.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2022\/08\/davidhendy.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Bradford: 50 years of BBC Radio: National Science &amp; Media Museum (2017)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Bradford1-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The project\u2019s first public event was held at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk\/\">National Science and Media Museum<\/a>&nbsp;in Bradford on Saturday 7th October 2017 and celebrated fifty years of BBC Radio 1,2,3 and 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 30 September 1967, as the Summer of Love reached its climax, the old Home Service, Light Programme and Third were put to rest \u2013 and dear old Auntie nervously embraced pop. At exactly 7am on that Saturday morning, Tony Blackburn took to the air, welcomed everyone to \u201cthe exciting new sound of Radio 1\u201d, and played his very first record, Flowers in the Rain. The BBC would never be the same again. Some reckoned it was the last gasp of a dying medium \u2013 that television would soon kill off radio altogether. In the half-century since, radio hasn\u2019t just survived it\u2019s thrived: a testimony to how important it is in our everyday lives, how much we love this taken-for-granted device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the fiftieth birthday celebrations, the BBC teamed up with the National Science and Media Museum and media historians at the University of Sussex for this one-off event. The event explored the role of radio in all our lives \u2013 the sets we had at home growing up, the technology that put our favourite voices and music on the air, the personalities who made it all happen behind-the-scenes. Guests were given the opportunity to explore the Museum\u2019s collections, saw new archive footage from the BBC\u2019s vaults, and heard talks by broadcasters and historians. The event also collected personal memories of radio, and recordings of delegates\u2019 BBC reminiscences on film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Britain Reimagined: A New Oral History of the BBC, British Library (2018)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/BL1-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>On Tuesday July 10 2018 the project\u2019s second public event was held at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/\">British Library<\/a>&nbsp;in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 people attended the free event, where they were able to view rare footage from the BBC\u2019s vaults and consider what it can tell us about how our national broadcaster has imagined \u2013 and reimagined \u2013 Britain, its people, and their changing place in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guests were invited to contribute to the project by sharing their memories of the events, completing a survey, and selected guests were invited to share their reminiscences in filmed interviews.<br>They were given a sneak preview of the new Voices of the BBC website\u2019s People, Nation, Empire pages, and the opportunity to see footage from the BBC oral histories archive.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Through a series of clips, lectures and discussions, the event focused on the challenges presented for the BBC by its responsibilities in a more multicultural and migrant Britain. For a broadcaster that claimed to speak to the whole nation, this meant a need and demand for new programmes, new voices, new faces. Clips from rare, previously unseen footage from the BBC archives were shown to give insight into the BBC\u2019s attempts to reflect working-class life, to be less metropolitan in outlook, to represent different faiths and ethnicities \u2013 in short, to be truly inclusive. The event concluded with a tour of the British Library\u2019s Windrush exhibition, led by the exhibition\u2019s curators.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:heading --><\/p>\n<h2>War from the inside: Oral histories from the BBC, The Keep (Brighton) (2019)<\/h2>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":82} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/files\/2021\/11\/Keep1-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>On the 19th October 2019 the third public event of the project was held at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thekeep.info\/\">The Keep,<\/a>&nbsp;a home to historic documents, including the Mass Observation Archive, partnered with the project.<\/p>\n<p>The MO Archive\u2019s curators teamed up with the BBC and the University of Sussex and through hearing personal accounts from key BBC figures, we traced how the BBC helped shape our experience of World War 2 \u2013 at home, abroad, and in our minds. By exploring rare recordings from the BBC\u2019s vaults and the stories they tell about how our national broadcaster has reported war and helped us live through it, we retraced landmark coverage of the Blitz and D-Day, but also lesser-known stories from behind-the-scenes: the \u2018secret war\u2019 of coded messages and secret beams, the arguments over the hit-series Music While You Work, the strange life of siege experienced by a generation of broadcasters who felt themselves on the front-line.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, participants had the chance to see new clips from the BBC\u2019s archive and hear from the legendary war correspondent Allan Little. The event also offered a unique opportunity to participants to take their place in BBC history by bringing their own memories and visiting our special pop-up TV corner to record their reminiscences on film.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conversation: Television Pioneers Ally Pally&#8217;s 150th Birthday Party 27 May 2023 16.30 &#8211; 18.00 A closer look at pioneering women in Ally Pally\u2019s Television Story from the University of Sussex\u2019s Connected Histories of the BBC team: Vicky Ball, Margaretta<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/upcoming\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/connected-histories-of-the-bbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}