1. The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum for Postgraduate Research and teaching
Dr Phil Wickham
Curator
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

2. THE BILL DOUGLAS CINEMA MUSEUM
Facebook The Bill Douglas Centre
80,000+ artefacts on the history of the moving image
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3. Why use artefacts in a museum for your postgraduate degree or thesis?
Unique primary sources enabling you to conduct original research !
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4. The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Over 300 years of moving image history
Artefacts and
ephemera
around the audience
experience

5. Bill Douglas Cinema Museum collection
Uses of the museum collections includes not just film but many aspects of the Humanities
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6. The BDC Museum offers many routes into social and cultural history

7. How? Searching for Bill Douglas Cinema Museum books and objects
For information see
Add to my collection
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8. HOW? Searching for Archives and Manuscripts
Archives and manuscripts are listed on the online archive catalogue available on our website.
Simple search by keyword or by Manuscript number.
Over 300 archive collections are also listed alphabetically and by manuscript number on our website at
All found from the Heritage Collections website
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9. Research at the Museum 31 PhDs have used the museum extensively
Over 120 Publications extensively using the museum
20 funded projects based around the collections
A resource for scholars from all over the world
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10. Access and Requesting items
All items on Streatham Campus are consulted in the Special Collections Reading Room, Research Commons, Old Library
Reading room rules apply – guidance on web pages FAQs
Term time opening hours – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday to Friday
Photocopying by staff within copyright regulations
Always request items in advance by or phone
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11. Further help p.j.wickham@exeter.ac.uk
Need to talk to someone about your project?
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