Chris Marshall
@drchrismarshall.bsky.social
Musician, academic, former BBC Radio 3 producer.
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The RPS Ambache Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 for UK music-makers looking to centre historic women composers in their programming, and connect audiences to their extraordinary music worth hearing.
Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...
Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The RPS Ambache Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 for UK music-makers looking to centre historic women composers in their programming, and connect audiences to their extraordinary music worth hearing.
Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...
Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...
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Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Filling the gaps which some never knew existed by James Jordan
In common with the other authors of this series of blogs, I am a regular user who knows first-hand the importance of the BBC’s Written Archives. When I first visited in 2006 it was to research a…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just up: a great contribution to CST's ongoing Defending the WAC series by James Jordan. Thoughts on Cartier, Dimbleby and the unknowns of archive research. cstonline.net/defending-th...
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c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
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Gonna need someone to check the dictionary definition of 'to pre-empt' because what else is this but pre-empting the decision of Council?
You'd hope those Council members don't appreciate having their hands tied like this. Because this is proper governance failure.
You'd hope those Council members don't appreciate having their hands tied like this. Because this is proper governance failure.
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Gonna need someone to check the dictionary definition of 'to pre-empt' because what else is this but pre-empting the decision of Council?
You'd hope those Council members don't appreciate having their hands tied like this. Because this is proper governance failure.
You'd hope those Council members don't appreciate having their hands tied like this. Because this is proper governance failure.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…
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October 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
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See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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BCU and @royalbirmcons.bsky.social has been awarded £1.4 million to help preserve the sounds of England’s East Coast! 🏖️
Lecturer in Music, Dr Joanna Bullivant, has been succesful in UKRI's Future Leader Fellowship scheme.
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Lecturer in Music, Dr Joanna Bullivant, has been succesful in UKRI's Future Leader Fellowship scheme.
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
BCU and @royalbirmcons.bsky.social has been awarded £1.4 million to help preserve the sounds of England’s East Coast! 🏖️
Lecturer in Music, Dr Joanna Bullivant, has been succesful in UKRI's Future Leader Fellowship scheme.
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
Lecturer in Music, Dr Joanna Bullivant, has been succesful in UKRI's Future Leader Fellowship scheme.
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
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"After the National Archives at Kew and probably the British Library, the BBC Written Archive Centre is the most significant repository of documents about British history over the last century” Important interview with Prof John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social
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September 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"After the National Archives at Kew and probably the British Library, the BBC Written Archive Centre is the most significant repository of documents about British history over the last century” Important interview with Prof John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social
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Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
August 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online).
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
Letter's wording is in the .alt element.
#waccampaign
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I’ve done quite a bit of work at Caversham that wouldn’t have been possible under this new system.
The BBC archives staff were skilled, knowledgeable, helpful, and beyond that, they were *kind,* which made things much easier for a researcher far from home and entirely unfamiliar with Reading.
The BBC archives staff were skilled, knowledgeable, helpful, and beyond that, they were *kind,* which made things much easier for a researcher far from home and entirely unfamiliar with Reading.
Our campaign for the continuation of independent access to the BBC Written Archive Centre is highlighted this morning by Vanessa Thorpe in The Observer. Her article, with excellent contributions from David Kynaston and Ian Greaves, outlines the issue with clarity.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’ve done quite a bit of work at Caversham that wouldn’t have been possible under this new system.
The BBC archives staff were skilled, knowledgeable, helpful, and beyond that, they were *kind,* which made things much easier for a researcher far from home and entirely unfamiliar with Reading.
The BBC archives staff were skilled, knowledgeable, helpful, and beyond that, they were *kind,* which made things much easier for a researcher far from home and entirely unfamiliar with Reading.
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Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
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I have signed the open letter in support of continued independent access to the BBC Written Archive Centre. The BBC WAC is such a brilliant resource with such a helpful staff, and it has been so useful to my research in the past - indeed its materials are integral to my current book project.
Our campaign for the continuation of independent access to the BBC Written Archive Centre is highlighted this morning by Vanessa Thorpe in The Observer. Her article, with excellent contributions from David Kynaston and Ian Greaves, outlines the issue with clarity.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have signed the open letter in support of continued independent access to the BBC Written Archive Centre. The BBC WAC is such a brilliant resource with such a helpful staff, and it has been so useful to my research in the past - indeed its materials are integral to my current book project.
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I am one of the growing number of 400 signatories to this letter. It's deeply concerning that the BBC is limiting public access & exploratory academic research into its rich historical archives. The WAC was a bastion of the BBC's public service remit & must remain so!
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I am one of the growing number of 400 signatories to this letter. It's deeply concerning that the BBC is limiting public access & exploratory academic research into its rich historical archives. The WAC was a bastion of the BBC's public service remit & must remain so!
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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The BBC written archives were already the most restricted of the many I’ve researched in over the decades. But without them my research on the later career of #GustavHolst would have been seriously incomplete. Holst embraced the BBC in its earliest years, and vice versa. The BBC holds public records
This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The BBC written archives were already the most restricted of the many I’ve researched in over the decades. But without them my research on the later career of #GustavHolst would have been seriously incomplete. Holst embraced the BBC in its earliest years, and vice versa. The BBC holds public records
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"Changes at the archive, held in Caversham, Berkshire, are already under way, despite the growing list of leading academics opposed to them. Access has been reduced from three days a week to two, and inquiries from the general public are closed."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"Changes at the archive, held in Caversham, Berkshire, are already under way, despite the growing list of leading academics opposed to them. Access has been reduced from three days a week to two, and inquiries from the general public are closed."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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You can read the letter here. Please follow the instructions at the top to join the campaign and sign. tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
August 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
You can read the letter here. Please follow the instructions at the top to join the campaign and sign. tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
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‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
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Access to the BBC'S written archives is a major part of what makes UK broadcasting history such a rich and exciting topic.
Sign this letter and push back against the WAC's dubious decision.
Sign this letter and push back against the WAC's dubious decision.
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
tinyurl.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Access to the BBC'S written archives is a major part of what makes UK broadcasting history such a rich and exciting topic.
Sign this letter and push back against the WAC's dubious decision.
Sign this letter and push back against the WAC's dubious decision.
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Happy birthday Jonathan!
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Happy birthday Jonathan!
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Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
tinyurl.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Okay Sweden, it’s yours…
May 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Okay Sweden, it’s yours…