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BFI at Home Cast & Director Q&A – Judas and the Black Messiah. © British Film Institute
BFI at Home Cast & Director Q&A – Judas and the Black Messiah. © British Film Institute

Blogs

Running digital events: top tips from the BFI

BFI Southbank is the nation’s film theatre, and the physical home of British film heritage, culture and learning. When we had to close our venue doors in March 2020, we were determined to continue offering audiences the very best in film programming and contextual events. We used our digital
16/07/2021
A person wearing a mask touches a creative display of glass jars
Getting work experience curating the 'Museum in a Jar' exhibition

Blogs

Kick the Dust Norfolk Journeys: helping young people into work

To celebrate World Youth Skills Day, discover how a heritage-themed work experience programme is helping young people to develop crucial skills and secure employment.
15/07/2021
Dr Alan Butler

Blogs

LGBT+ History Month: A space in the archives

Dr Alan Butler tells us how the Plymouth LGBT+ Archive has captured important stories and continues to evolve as an active part of the community.
23/02/2021
Sadia Habib and Stephen Welsh
Dr Habib and Stephen Welsh with project participant, Urussa

Blogs

South Asian Heritage Month: truth-telling and transformation

As South Asian Heritage Month ends, it’s a good time to look at how more UK museums are considering ways of deepening engagement with South Asian communities and heritage.
18/08/2020
Alistair McNaught smiling in nature
Alistair McNaught

Blogs

Making heritage websites accessible to all

When producing our new guide to online accessibility, Alistair McNaught’s research identified how heritage organisations can make their online content open to all. He tells us more.
06/08/2020
Matthew Mckeague, CEO of the Architectural Heritage Fund

Blogs

Partners and pioneers – building back after the pandemic

Town centres are struggling – after the pandemic, innovative partnerships and investment in heritage can help them flourish again.
28/07/2020
Bernard Donoghue

Blogs

Rejecting nostalgia for positive change

It’s fascinating that one of the TV programmes that has had the largest increases in viewers during lockdown is BBC One’s The Repair Shop.
29/06/2020
Nat Edwards

Blogs

Independent museums can shine a light after the darkness

Second in our new Future Heritage blog series – imagining the heritage sector after coronavirus (COVID-19) – Nat Edwards suggests ways museums could work together, better.
18/05/2020
A mannequin in a T-shirt saying 'we should all be feminists'

Blogs

International Women’s Day: Giving young women a voice in heritage

To celebrate International Women’s Day, two young women making their mark in heritage describe their experiences of a project at the Ulster Museum.
06/03/2020
Richard Bellamy

Blogs

How The National Lottery has helped Wales' museums

The exciting events of Welsh Museums Festival would not be possible without the hard work of museum staff and volunteers, plus crucial investment from The National Lottery.
29/10/2019
Susan Pitter

Blogs

Eulogy - the responsibility of telling the Windrush generation's stories

It was losing my father Hermerde in September 2017 and the funeral of one of his closest friends exactly a year later that inspired the Eulogy project.
10/09/2019
Paul Barnard

Blogs

How working internationally can boost tourism for heritage organisations

The Historic Dockyard Chatham has always worked internationally, but on a relatively small scale. We stepped this up considerably in 2017 through our project commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid. The Medway Raid - a history It was 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch
20/09/2019

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