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…

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’…

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…

Historian and author Lynne Mayers describes the Kennal Vale Paper Mill, and poses the question whether it was the most successful mill in Cornwall The picturesque and deeply wooded Kennal…

Film studios are architectural spaces designed to support every stage in a film’s production, yet they’ve rarely featured as the subject of extensive analysis compared with film movements, directors and…