The Media School

The Centre for Broadcasting History Research

The Centre for Broadcasting History seeks to:

Stimulate an interest in the study of the history of broadcasting
Create and develop partnerships with other organisations and institutions in shared areas of historical interest
Work for the preservation of important at-risk archival collections
Develop new approaches to the interrogation of existing resources through the application of innovative technologies
Raise the profile of historical contexts within the current teaching practice of the School
Develop work as a contribution towards the RAE 2008

The Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research is Professor Sean Street. His research work is linked closely to his radio programme-making and writing on radio and literary subjects. For more details, go to www.seanstreet.com External Link

Latest news:

A major project by the Centre for Broadcasting History Research to digitise and catalogue the most important radio news archive in the UK outside of the BBC has been given funding totalling over £750,000.

The LBC/Independent Radio News (IRN) Digitisation Project, co-ordinated by the University’s Centre for Broadcasting History, will preserve for academic use the unique news and current affairs audio archive owned by LBC Radio Ltd, part of the Chrysalis Radio Group...Read more of the story here or visit the project webpage