Wendy Russell
@archiveswendy.bsky.social
Archivist at British Film Institute Special Collections
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
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Wendy Russell
@archiveswendy.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context
The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretati...
www.routledge.com
Might as well plug the book I co-edited with the excellent Sue Breakell @designarchives.bsky.social
The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context. And it's open access!
The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context. And it's open access!
Interesting training event at TNA: PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain - Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain
Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interesting training event at TNA: PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain - Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
Very pleased that the book Sue and I edited, The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context, has just come out in paperback (so a bit cheaper!).
www.routledge.com/The-Material...
www.routledge.com/The-Material...
The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context
The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretati...
www.routledge.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Very pleased that the book Sue and I edited, The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context, has just come out in paperback (so a bit cheaper!).
www.routledge.com/The-Material...
www.routledge.com/The-Material...
The British Museum is also to be held responsible for this decision - they should care about the potential/probably damage as much as the French conservators. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan
Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UK
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The British Museum is also to be held responsible for this decision - they should care about the potential/probably damage as much as the French conservators. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Reposted by Wendy Russell
Interesting & critical review of the new V&A Storehouse by @profdanhicks.bsky.social
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
artreview.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Interesting & critical review of the new V&A Storehouse by @profdanhicks.bsky.social
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
Laura Mulvey to receive the BFI Fellowship this year:
www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship
The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.
www.bfi.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Laura Mulvey to receive the BFI Fellowship this year:
www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
It's that time again, The BFI National Archive will be opening it's doors for a behind the scenes days of tours for Heritage Open Day 2025 www.tickettailor.com/events/bfihe...
Select tickets – BFI National Archive | Heritage Open Day – BFI National Archive
IMPORTANT TICKET INFORMATION
Your entrance ticket will give you an hour-long time slot for entry. Once inside the Conservation ...
www.tickettailor.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It's that time again, The BFI National Archive will be opening it's doors for a behind the scenes days of tours for Heritage Open Day 2025 www.tickettailor.com/events/bfihe...
Whilst I generally avoid arguing with idiots on social media, I can’t help feeling very happy that I’ve just irritated a transphobe by telling her to ‘talk to the hand cos the face ain’t listening’. Maybe it’s the wine as I know it’s a silly comeback.
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Whilst I generally avoid arguing with idiots on social media, I can’t help feeling very happy that I’ve just irritated a transphobe by telling her to ‘talk to the hand cos the face ain’t listening’. Maybe it’s the wine as I know it’s a silly comeback.
Home working in school hols:
Me: I'm working & need to concentrate, don't interrupt for a bit.
5 mins later son runs to me:
Son: There's a big problem.
Me: What?
Son: I don't know how to say it, but I need you to come.
Me: Just tell me what it is.
Son: I've got a bit of slime stuck to a newspaper.
Me: I'm working & need to concentrate, don't interrupt for a bit.
5 mins later son runs to me:
Son: There's a big problem.
Me: What?
Son: I don't know how to say it, but I need you to come.
Me: Just tell me what it is.
Son: I've got a bit of slime stuck to a newspaper.
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Home working in school hols:
Me: I'm working & need to concentrate, don't interrupt for a bit.
5 mins later son runs to me:
Son: There's a big problem.
Me: What?
Son: I don't know how to say it, but I need you to come.
Me: Just tell me what it is.
Son: I've got a bit of slime stuck to a newspaper.
Me: I'm working & need to concentrate, don't interrupt for a bit.
5 mins later son runs to me:
Son: There's a big problem.
Me: What?
Son: I don't know how to say it, but I need you to come.
Me: Just tell me what it is.
Son: I've got a bit of slime stuck to a newspaper.
'Failure of aid'. What a joke this guy is.
July 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
'Failure of aid'. What a joke this guy is.
Reposted by Wendy Russell
The ICO is taking action against the Cabinet Office because of lengthy and unexplained FOI delays. In a new practice recommendation the ICO is highly critical of the Cabinet Office approach to FOI, telling it to supply quarterly updates for monitoring of its future performance.
July 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The ICO is taking action against the Cabinet Office because of lengthy and unexplained FOI delays. In a new practice recommendation the ICO is highly critical of the Cabinet Office approach to FOI, telling it to supply quarterly updates for monitoring of its future performance.
Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.
July 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.
The wonderful Connie Francis has passed away. One of my favourite records to listen to growing up was my mum's Connie Francis album.
Such a tragic life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5i...
Such a tragic life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5i...
Connie Francis Everybody's Somebody's Fool (HQ Stereo) (1962)
YouTube video by Billscustomsounds William Merz
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The wonderful Connie Francis has passed away. One of my favourite records to listen to growing up was my mum's Connie Francis album.
Such a tragic life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5i...
Such a tragic life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5i...
Academia.edu informed me they have an AI review of my book. Out of curiosity, I looked at it. What a depressing experience to read a computer generated 'review' What's worse is that others may read this and accept it as is. Soulless.
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Academia.edu informed me they have an AI review of my book. Out of curiosity, I looked at it. What a depressing experience to read a computer generated 'review' What's worse is that others may read this and accept it as is. Soulless.
Our amazing BFI Special Collections Archives Assistant, Eva Norton, wrote this week's Object of the Week, a promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
Object of the week: promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
Currently on display as part of the Design Museum’s celebration of a century of swimming style, this 1920s promo image offers a tantalising glimpse of a sadly lost silent feature starring Bebe Daniels...
www.bfi.org.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our amazing BFI Special Collections Archives Assistant, Eva Norton, wrote this week's Object of the Week, a promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
Reposted by Wendy Russell
Bringing together the many ‘cides’ inflicted on Palestine with the hope of the ‘accidental and piecemeal archive’
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
newlinesmag.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bringing together the many ‘cides’ inflicted on Palestine with the hope of the ‘accidental and piecemeal archive’
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...
Overheard snippet of a phone conversation on the train tonight:
"I have to let my facial hair grow out for the film"
Person on the other end of the phone responds. Then he says, in a mildly irate tone
"Well, I don't really have a choice, do I?"
Guessing his partner doesn't like a hairy man.
"I have to let my facial hair grow out for the film"
Person on the other end of the phone responds. Then he says, in a mildly irate tone
"Well, I don't really have a choice, do I?"
Guessing his partner doesn't like a hairy man.
June 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Overheard snippet of a phone conversation on the train tonight:
"I have to let my facial hair grow out for the film"
Person on the other end of the phone responds. Then he says, in a mildly irate tone
"Well, I don't really have a choice, do I?"
Guessing his partner doesn't like a hairy man.
"I have to let my facial hair grow out for the film"
Person on the other end of the phone responds. Then he says, in a mildly irate tone
"Well, I don't really have a choice, do I?"
Guessing his partner doesn't like a hairy man.
The BFI National Archive's first Object of the Week!
This piece is by my wonderful former boss, Nathalie Morris. The wallpaper has had some excellent conservation work by or brilliant paper conservator, Tabitha Austin: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
This piece is by my wonderful former boss, Nathalie Morris. The wallpaper has had some excellent conservation work by or brilliant paper conservator, Tabitha Austin: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
Object of the week: The Red Shoes wallpaper by the film’s designer Hein Heckroth
In the first of a new series showcasing treasures from the BFI National Archive, we put a spotlight on some big-statement interior decoration: 1950s wallpaper inspired by Powell and Pressburger’s clas...
www.bfi.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The BFI National Archive's first Object of the Week!
This piece is by my wonderful former boss, Nathalie Morris. The wallpaper has had some excellent conservation work by or brilliant paper conservator, Tabitha Austin: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
This piece is by my wonderful former boss, Nathalie Morris. The wallpaper has had some excellent conservation work by or brilliant paper conservator, Tabitha Austin: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
Reposted by Wendy Russell
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
June 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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
Our AHRC Project Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible now has a bluesky account! Do follow @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Our AHRC Project Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible now has a bluesky account! Do follow @womensscreenwork.bsky.social