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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excited to be keynote speaker for this essential biennial conference where all the feminist media historians gather!

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Shelley Cobb @bellecobb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🎉🎬🙌🎞️❤️📽️

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In the past few weeks, postdoctoral researcher, Jessica Boyall has been presenting papers that draw on her experience appraising, arranging and cataloguing Gurinder Chadha’s collection at the British Film Institute's National Archive. (1/6)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Wendy Russell writes: "I am the Screencraft Lead Archivist at the British Film Institute, where I look after the (mostly) paper archives of filmmakers. As part of the WSW Archival Strand, (1/4)

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Lisa Smithstead writes: "My main role on the project is interviewing curators and archivists to find out more about their working methods with women’s screen work collections. (1/4)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Phil Wickham writes: "I am the Curator of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. This is the leading museum dedicated to the moving image in the UK and holds over 94,000 items, forming a people’s history of cinema and optical media. (1/4)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Katie Crosson writes: "Based at the University of Exeter in the Curation Strand, I am working on a script collection donated to the @bdcmuseum.bsky.social by Pinewood Studios, analysing screenplays written, conceived and developed by women. (1/8)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Shelley Cobb says: "As part of the WSW team, I am working with Lisa Smithstead interviewing archivists and curators about their roles in the film industry and am learning so much about how they are working to prioritise women's visibility in archives (1/5)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Jessica Boyall writes: "I’m a postdoctoral researcher working on the archival strand of the project (see the 'About' section of our website, link in bio). I’m based at the BFI National Archive, Screencraft Collections, where I’m mobilising the Gurinder Chadha collection (1/6)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@helenexeter.bsky.social writes: “I am the Project Lead for the fantastic team on the Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible Project. My role is to help co-ordinate our activities, but the work and generation of ideas and insights on our project is truly collaborative. (1/6)

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Meet the Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible project team! We will be sending out intros to each of us over the next few weeks, but you can see more here: womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/people/proje... #womensscreenworkinarchives #wswia #womenfilmmakers

4 Photos of research team members of the 'Women's Screen Work in Archives Made Visible' research project, Photo 1: L-R Linda Ruth Williams, Shelley Cobb, Helen M Hanson, Phil Wickham, Lisa Smithstead, Wendy Russell. Photo 2: Jessica Boyall, Photo 3: Katie Crosson, Photo 4: Lucie Mingmei Hao

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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A big #IWD 💜 🤍 💚 shout out to the FAB research team on @womensscreenwork.bsky.social which I’m leading. Our work with archives to make British #womenfilmmakers more discoverable and more visible is gathering pace. But even better, we just love working together. More⬇️ womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk

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Home - Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My excellent colleague, Chantelle Boyea, introduced Tina Gharavi's short films last night, with some highlights from Tina's fascinating archive. Come here Tina speak about her work and archive on Friday at the BFI!

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It was so great to be at #DWFTH7 in Lincoln and to present our project’s first steps. Thanks for the insightful comments and discussion from the audience #womensscreenwork #femfilmhistory #archives @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @bellecobb.bsky.social @archiveswendy.bsky.social

Helen Hanson, Project Lead of the Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible introduces the project and the team. Pictured are the team Linda Ruth Williams, Shelley Cobb, Phil Wickham, Wendy Russell and Helen Hanson, Katie Crosson and Jessica Boyall. The team are photographed in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum lower galleries. Also pictured is the BFI Archive at Berkhamsted and the Exterior of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter

Jessica Boyall pictured outlining our project archive strand

Shelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams outline plans to interview filmmaker donors

Lisa Smithstead introduces the project aims to interview archivists and curators

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🥰Lots of support for our strike from members of the public passing the picket line this morning! 🎺Give us a toot or come and say hi if you're passing by! #SaveUEA

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Statement by Translucent providing some context… Written by a lawyer with decades of experience in this area.

Translucent is disappointed with today’s Supreme Court judgement. However we need to consider the judgement carefully before responding fully.

Translucent is aware that many in the trans community will be extremely worried by this decision and its implications.

We would like to reassure them that they are still protected from discrimination, victimisation and harassment because of their protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

If a trans community member experiences discrimination or harassment, we suggest they promptly seek legal support, whether from a local solicitor, free advice centre, or a family solicitor and consider what legal actions they can take to protect themselves and others.

It is vital to remain calm whilst our legal teams evaluate the consequences of this decision and consider whether further action may be taken in the European Court of Human Rights to reinstate any rights we may have lost.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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Neil Ewen @neilio1979.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We have two fully-funded PhD studentships available, one in film practice and one open call for any project in media/comms, drama, and film. Please share with suitable candidates

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Studentships in Communications, Drama and Film at University of Exeter

At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a Studentships in Communications, Drama and Film. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Spotted at tonight’s hockey game and posted without comment.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In case you feel inclined to ask your friendly local UK academic how they are. This has been our past fortnight... qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... 😵‍💫

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Most recent updates

(in the past fortnight, approximately; last updated 31 January 2025)

Cardiff announced they are seeking to lose 400 colleagues.

The university for the Creative Arts ran a Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme and is looking into restructuring

The University of Dundee will no longer issue contracts to post-graduate students for teaching in 2025.

Durham is planning to lose 200 (!!!) non-academic colleagues and opened a voluntary severance scheme.

Kent opened another voluntary severance scheme, but is looking to cut £20million within three weeks…

Lancaster is cutting 400 posts over the next two years

Newcastle announced they’re making 300 FTE redundancies

The Open University opened another Voluntary Severance Scheme

Reading opened a targeted voluntary severance scheme, targeting, amongst others, biological engineering, environment, English, languages, education.

University of West England: Bristol Old Vic will no longer be accepting enrolments from September 2025.

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Woman with a Movie Camera programme is out! I’ll be joining @helenexeter.bsky.social & @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social for a panel on Script Supervisors, then we’ll have a few items on display from the BFI National Archive whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

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Buy cinema tickets for Woman with a Movie Camera Summit 2025 | BFI Southbank

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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We are hiring 2 x Postdocs to work on our AHRC project 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible' app by:20/01/25 Details below ⬇️ 1) PDRA-Archives jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #archivejobs #specialcollections #womenshistory #womeninfilm 1/2

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The other will work primarily with @helenexeter.bsky.social @lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social and Phil Wickham at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, focusing on the curation of collections of women filmmakers. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Our AHRC project Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible has 2 postdoc research associate jobs. One will work mostly with me & @helenexeter.bsky.social with hands-on archives work on collections of women filmmakers at the BFI National Archive jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It’s not too late! Deadline has been extended to Dec 20.

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Shelley Cobb @bellecobb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For those of you who write and publish, especially if you are UK-based, remember to register your items with ALCS. They collect money paid for copying/distributing work and pay it to authors. The cut-off for the March payment is to register your items by Nov 30th. www.alcs.co.uk/about-alcs/

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About us

This is information about ALCS.

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✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ @lrjdmnr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

London people: I'll be talking about my new book 'Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy' at the BFI Library on Monday the 2nd of December, 18:30 🎭 Link to buy a ticket below!

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Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK TV Comedy with Laura Minor | BFI Southbank

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Please consider signing this one, folks. The Herrick and the Academy Archive are vital, vital resources. #filmsky

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