J.B. Priestley: A Life in Objects

Mark Goodall is an Associate Professor in Film at the University of Bradford. He has published books on the Beatles, The Beatles or The White Album, music and the occult Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation, and shock cinema of the 1960s Sweet and Savage: the World, Through the Mondo Film Lens . He co-edited New Media Archaeology and edited a special edition of Film International. He has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The New European and Shindig! and plays with the group Rudolf Rocker.

Irene’s been storytelling since age 6 – it says so on her school report. She is an author, playwright, social historian, actor/director and creative content producer/project developer. Irene has written many plays, two children’s fiction collections and edited several poetry/prose anthologies. A regular contributor to literary/art festivals, she’s commissioned by heritage organisations and universities to create site-specific poems/stories. Currently touring her one-woman show ‘Meet Louise Whitfield: Andrew Carnegie’s ‘most trusted confidante’; she recorded Hidden Bradford storytelling episodes on BBC Sounds and is researching speculative influences on Brontë writing. Irene’s focus is making the invisible visible.

Julie qualified as an Archivist in 2000 and she has worked in a wide range of institutions including the British Railways Board Records Centre in London, the Museum of Science and Industry and the Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People’s History Museum in Manchester. Julie has been the Archivist at the University of Bradford since 2019, looking after the Special Collections and Archives and the University’s art collection. As a Bradfordian, Julie is proud to look after the University’s amazing collections and loves to showcase them for researchers and visitors.