Aviemore and Inverness are very different places in which I attended very different events. In Aviemore, a small town in the Cairngorms National Park that caters to tourists interested in outdoor pursuits, I was lucky enough to be able to be at a birthday party to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Screen Machine, the mobile…
Yesterday saw the first film screening of the Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s project’s tour of Scotland. It was something I’d been looking forward to since I started planning this research trip across the Highlands in spring, not least because it was my first opportunity to ask people who live in rural…
UCL History’s Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s project has hit the road! I’m going to be in Scotland for the next two weeks, hosting special screenings of 1960s films and collecting local memories of going to the pictures at a time when the world faced the possibility of nuclear war and humanity…
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