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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible

@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
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Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social

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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher Katie Crosson writes: "Many thanks to International Women's Broadcasting Histories for hosting me to talk at their inaugural conference, held at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. (1/7)
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🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Lucie Mingmei writes: "I am the Research IT Developer in the Research IT team based in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter. As part of the WSWIA team, I work on the design and development of the project’s WordPress web interface, which is used for blogging and (1/8)
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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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🗃️ 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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🗃️ 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 strandShelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams outline plans to interview filmmaker donorsLisa Smithstead introduces the project aims to interview archivists and curators
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