DWFTH6 – Registration is Open

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Doing Women's Film and Television History Conference VI at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 14 - 16 June 2023.  Conference information and a link to register is available via the conference website:  https://dwftvhvi.wordpress.com/ Please note that early bird registration ends on 14 …

Panning for gold in the amateur film collection of Wessex Film and Sound Archive

by Zoë Viney Burgess “Women were both ‘there’ and ‘not there’”[1] is a phrase coined by Jane Gaines in her discussion of women’s work in early film history, and it is a phrase that I continue to return to during both my work as Film Curator at Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) and in …

DWFTH6 – Call for Papers

Doing Women’s Film and Television History VI: Changing Streams and Channels  14 – 16 June 2023 University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Doing Women’s Film and Television History is back in 2023! Join us at the University of Sussex for the 6th edition of this leading international conference on women’s film and television history. Confirmed Keynotes: …

Thoughts about Press Cuttings and the 21st Century

Like a number of academics and practitioners who became media-active in the 1970s, Pat Holland has been 'sifting' through her rich collection of research materials, and her reflections on them, in 2022, are relevant to WFTHN's interest in the history of women working in/on film and television. Television did not feature in our early formation …

PhD/MA Students Needed for Help with Resource Pages

We are a group of researchers, teachers, archivists, collections managers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts engaged in exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television. We focus on the histories of women film and television workers and practitioners, and questions these histories raise. Our overall aims and activities can …