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Presenter: Howard Berry, Principal Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire A 'behind-the-scenes' presentation celebrating the centenary of Elstree & Borehamwood's film studios with: oral histories of production staff who ‘made’ the studios: from carpenters to set-designers, floor managers to camera operators reconstructions of (analogue) film equipment, such as editing and printing tools   Admission: £5,…

Mining Historian Rick Stewart examines the region’s production of the notoriously toxic heavy metal When alternative and cheaper sources of copper were found in Chile, South Africa and Australia in the 1860s, many mines faced ruin, but some were rescued by switching to the production of arsenic, for which there was then an increasing demand.…

Presenter: Dr Gordon Davies (volunteer, Cambridge Museum of Technology) Dams, mines, power stations, railways (and more industrial architecture!) have featured in 130 years of cinematic history, ever since Louis Lumière first filmed the doors of the Lumière factory opening. Find out what happens when the ‘irresistible force’ of film director meets the often ‘immovable object’ of…