MERL: Seminar: MERL and the BBC: Rural re-enactment and gestural reconstruction in the 1950s

MERL’s earliest curators rapidly adopted the techniques of public history in order to salvage a way of life seen to be disappearing and cement a technology-centred approach to the past. During the 1950s, their short set-piece re-enactments played a prominent role in television broadcast contexts. In this talk, Dr Ollie Douglas, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, explores how reconstructive approaches to rural objects provided insight into the less tangible world of past gestures and actions. This Seminar will be followed by a small pop-up exhibition in the Museum’s mezzanine store featuring objects used in television recordings or with connections to radio.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000391?id=EVENT459781