John Wyver writes: considering the two television covers of Radio Times from October 1936 in an earlier post piqued my interest as to what the covers of the weekly listings magazine were like throughout the rest of the 1930s. more
John Wyver writes: The Future States conference, about which I have been writing and which continues online until 17 April, is focussed on illustrated magazines in the interwar period. In Britain, much of the academic work on more
John Wyver writes: for the past week or so I have been ... what? 'attending', perhaps, or 'participating in', or 'watching', the Future States conference. I've posted before about this, and about its innovative online format, here and more
John Wyver writes: after nearly a week of not posting to the blog, here's the reading and viewing that has caught my attention over the past week, with just a few elements of Covid-19 related media. • Why the coronavirus more
John Wyver writes: Today sees the start of the online conference 'Future States: Modernity and national identity in popular magazines, 1890-1945' which I introduced last week. Organised by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, this more
John Wyver writes: the usual weekly dose of writings that have engaged me over the past week, including inevitably some Covid-19 pieces, complemented by one or two video fragments that I have found especially important - starting with... • The secret more
John Wyver writes: Earlier this week I introduced the television reviews for The Listener written by Harold Hobson between May 1947 and September 1951. I want to dig into these further, today looking at a selection of the critic's more
John Wyver writes: Maybe this post will go a step, or indeed several such, too far. But humour me. I started out from a tiny moment of pleasure this morning when I saw that Andy Dickson had reviewed in more
John Wyver writes: next Monday sees the start of an intriguing and, especially given the state of the world right now, a potentially significant academic initiative. Over the past fortnight every scholar worldwide has received e-mails cancelling every conference that more
John Wyver writes: Childishly pleased as I mostly certainly am with my headline, it's not my only reason for starting a short series of posts about Harold Hobson (1904-1992). Specifically I intend to explore Hobson's television criticism for the BBC's more