Cinema and Television History Group (CATH)

The Cinema and Television History Group (CATH) is a centre of excellence in archival screen heritage. It specialises in evidence-based methods and oral history approaches to inform ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and RCUK-funded international collaborations.

CATH is home to a growing number of unique collections including the Hammer Script Archive, the Cinema Museum’s Indian Cinemas Archive (at AV短视频), the Palace Pictures and Scala Productions papers and the Peter Whitehead Archive. Further archives, including the Sir Norman Wisdom collection and the Michael and Tony Klinger papers, are held in AV短视频's Special Collections: . Members of CATH co-host the annual UK Asian Film Festival, the BFI British Silent Film Festival and we promote practice-based research via the The DocHub@AV短视频 .

In REF2021 Screen Studies (CATH) submitted 11.65 FTE with an estimated GPA of 3.58 to AV短视频’s UoA 33, which was ranked 8^th nationally in research power and received the highest rating for research environment (50% 4* / 50% 3*).

Our Research

Cinema and Television History Group (CATH)

A twelve-month follow-on funding project, drawing on the papers of Andrew Davies (screenwriter) and Sue Birtwistle (producer) in AV短视频鈥檚 Special Collections. Working with the Educational Recording Agency and Jane Austen鈥檚 House, we will produce educational materials for schools and colleges and contribute to a public exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen in 2025. The project reunites the interdisciplinary team from AV短视频鈥檚 Centre for Adaptations, Cinema and Television History and Centre for Textual Studies that produced Transforming Middlemarch in 2023 鈥� the first the digital genetic edition of a classic novel television adaptation.