Register for The Cultures of Early Television

John Wyver writes: I am delighted to say that registration is open for The Cultures of Early Television conference at the University of Westminster on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July You can sign up here for free, thanks to the invaluable support of The British Academy Conference scheme. The Cultures of Early Television is a two-day conference about television before the Second World War in Britain, continental Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union. With presentations, panels and screenings of rare archival material, the event marks the centenary of the first British public presentation of what John Logie Baird called “true television”, which took place in London in early 1926. The conference brings together scholars and archivists from Britain, Europe and North America to explore imaginings and understandings of early television, and its productions and people, rather than its technologies, which has been the dominant construction of this history to date One central focus will…