Description
Join us to explore the objects in the J.B. Priestley archive collection, one of the richest in the University of Bradford’s Special Collections.
Discover the life and legacy of this literary icon through a wide range of objects including Priestley’s typewriter, medals, clothing and other personal items. You’ll even encounter some of Priestley’s signature pipes.
This intimate session offers unique access to material rarely seen by the public, perfect for fans, scholars, and the curious alike. Step behind the scenes and experience Priestley’s world like never before.
Please meet at the Student Central building entrance, by the sculpture. What3words location: cheer.labs.cook.
About the Workshop Leaders
Dr. Mark Goodall
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 Lofthouse
Irene Lofthouse is an author, playwright, performer and research consultant based in Bradford. Her writing ranges across fiction and non-fiction; incorporates all ages and ranges across genres. She is a First story writer-in-residence for primary and secondary schools, editing five anthologies of young writers’ work. Irene regularly undertakes author talks in schools; creates educational learning content for universities, museums, libraries, Historic England, BBC Sounds and delivers workshops for Literature Festivals. Work appears in numerous anthologies (poetry and fiction); online at 26Characters; in her ‘Strange Tales’ children’s collections, and at live performances, open mics, festivals and one-woman shows.
She a trustee of JB Priestley Society, Undercliffe Cemetery and 26 Characters; has co-founded two community theatre groups and an award-winning training resources publishing business.
Julie Parry
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.
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