Time to rewind – Hampshire’s history celebrated with ‘100 Days of Film’
Hampshire County Council’s Wessex Film and Sound Archive launched ‘100 days of film’ in April – an online project enabling people, including those with dementia, to enjoy local film archive footage spanning from the 1910s to the 1970s

There is no doubt that moving image archive and testimony to VE Day celebrations showing a nation dancing and singing in the streets, burning the blackout boards and curtains and, for the first time in 6 years, relaxing and realising a better life was round the corner can serve to boost the nation’s mood with a feeling of nostalgia.

The North West Archive have launched #Lockdownlife Appeal is asking for the public’s help to create as wide-ranging a picture as possible of what life was really like in the North West of England during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, Screen Archive South East cordially invites you to experience both the grim and the joyous events of seventy-five years ago by watching its new archive film – ‘War & Peace’.

Life in lockdown is still full on with many FAUK members focusing on digital outreach and a special ‘Keyworkers Gallery’

A new film project titled ‘These are the Hands’, looking to raise money for NHS Charities Together, includes material from a Cambridgeshire heart surgeon’s film collection held by EAFA.

The UEA’s report, ‘Invisible Innovators’ making women filmmakers visible across the UK’s film archives, is now available. It has been commissioned by Film Archives UK to explore the current scale and scope of the holdings of women’s amateur filmmaking within the regional and national film and media archives and to investigate ways of optimising their visibility.

Future-proofing Our Collections: ‘Unleashing the Power of Archive Film’ an LSA conference at the Museum of London – Thursday 12th March 2020
London’s Screen Archives are delighted to announce confirmed speakers for the Future-proofing Our Collections: Unleashing the Power of Archive Film conference, which will bring together archivists, filmmakers, researchers, academics and archive film professionals.

FAUK AGM – Vice Chair gives a Review of 2018-19
FAUK Members met in London before Christmas for their quarterly meeting and AGM kindly hosted by FAUK Member, LONDON’S SCREEN ARCHIVES at their offices in Finsbury Park.

12 noon GMT on World Day for Audio Visual Heritage, Sunday October 27th 2019, heralded the start of a 24 Hour Home Movie Marathon and a unique focus and celebration of footage from archives and individuals right across the world – a simultaneous world-wide project…..