Cultural Revolution? Reassessing the BBC and social change in sixties Britain (BBC History 100 Fellowship)

英国和BBC在20世纪60年代经历了一场“文化革命”吗？英国广播公司在60年代是否实现了其宣称的在社会变革报道中“走在公众舆论前面”的雄心，为其目前的多样性和包容性举措奠定了基础？英国广播公司在20世纪60年代对妇女、BAME和LGBTQ+社区的待遇如何在2022年出现在同一群体的成员身上？BBC的百年纪念提供了一个机会，通过关注被普遍认为标志着广播公司和国家转折点的十年，探索BBC和现代英国交织在一起的历史。这一项目将创造一个英国广播公司在1960年代的人民历史，以补充由澳大利亚人权委员会资助的关于英国广播公司历史联系的主要项目所进行的机构历史。学生们将分析BBC如何报道种族关系、同性恋权利的出现、妇女解放以及北方爱尔兰的麻烦。被边缘化的社区将回顾他们在20世纪60年代的广播中是如何被代表的，并将上演关于他们社区的失落纪录片的戏剧改编，只有抄本幸存下来。LGBTQ+历史月期间的一系列谈话将探讨英国广播公司在1967年性犯罪法案之前和之后处理同性恋者的尴尬尝试。一个播客系列借鉴了世界上最大的口述历史收藏之一，英国广播公司创建的千年记忆银行，将追溯普通人如何体验英国广播公司的节目和20世纪60年代流行文化的其他方面。学术和非学术研究人员将齐聚一堂，分享他们的研究成果，探索更多关于BBC丰富的档案，并与媒体专业人士讨论过去的经验如何为广播的未来发展提供指导。这些活动将与教育，遗产和戏剧方面的领先机构合作举办：历史协会、OCR考试委员会、国家科学和媒体博物馆、电影博物馆、Tamasha、Collective Encounters和Homo Promos社区剧团以及一位在参与性戏剧方面有杰出记录的戏剧家。这些活动将由六十年代英国的历史学家协调，他在公众参与方面经验丰富，曾广泛撰写流行文化，移民，一代，性行为，放纵，第二波女权主义，国家认同和新社会运动，目前正在撰写关于LGBTQ+问题的BBC纪录片的历史从20世纪50年代到80年代。该计划将要求参与者自己决定BBC节目是否证实或反驳我对60年代英国的描述，即“反宽容的宽容社会”，其中广播提醒公众注意他们大多数人反对的社会和文化的自由化和多样化。

Did Britain and the BBC undergo a 'cultural revolution' in the 1960s? Did the BBC in the sixties fulfil its declared ambition 'to be ahead of public opinion' in its coverage of social change, laying the foundations for its current initiatives on diversity and inclusion? How does the BBC's treatment of women and BAME and LGBTQ+ communities in the 1960s appear to members of the same groups in 2022? The BBC's centenary year provides an opportunity to explore the intertwined histories of the BBC and modern Britain by focusing on the decade popularly thought to have marked a turning point for both broadcaster and nation. This project will create a people's history of the BBC in the 1960s to complement the institutional history undertaken by the major AHRC-funded project on Connected Histories of the BBC. Schoolchildren will analyse how the BBC reported on race relations, the emergence of gay rights and women's liberation and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Marginalised communities will review how they were represented in 1960s broadcasts and will stage theatrical adaptations of lost documentaries about their communities for which only transcripts survive. A series of talks during LGBTQ+ History Month will explore the BBC's awkward attempts to tackle gay and lesbian live before and after the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. A podcast series drawing upon one of the world's largest oral history collections, the BBC-created Millennium Memory Bank, will trace how ordinary people experienced BBC programmes and other aspects of popular culture in the 1960s. Academic and non-academic researchers will come together at a conference on 'The BBC at 100: Past, Present and Future' to share their findings, discover more about the BBC's rich archives and discuss with media professionals how past experiences can inform the future development of broadcasting.These activities will be delivered in partnership with leading organisations in education, heritage and drama: the Historical Association, the OCR examination board, the National Science and Media Museum, the Cinema Museum, the community theatre groups Tamasha, Collective Encounters and Homo Promos and a dramaturg with a distinguished track-record in participatory drama. The activities will be coordinated by a historian of sixties Britain who is experienced in public engagement and who has written widely on popular culture, migration, generation, sexuality, permissiveness, second-wave feminism, national identity and New Social Movements and who is currently writing a history of BBC documentaries about LGBTQ+ issues from the 1950s to the 1980s. The programme will ask participants to decide for themselves whether BBC programmes confirm or contradict my characterisation of sixties Britain as an 'anti-permissive permissive society' in which broadcasts alerted the general public to a liberalisation and diversification of society and culture that most of them opposed.