The Writers of Wales Database

MEDHURST, JAMIE

Jamie studied for a BA in History at Aberystwyth University, followed by a MA in Information Studies. He is now Director of Learning and Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. Jamie oversees all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching in the Theatre Film & Television Studies department. His research interests include broadcasting history (especially early television and the BBC, 1923-39 and ITV in the 1950s and 1960s); media history and historiography.
 
Jamie is a member of the European Television History Network and has reviewed papers for Contemporary Wales, Critical Studies in Television, Media History and Twentieth Century British History together with book proposals for Routledge, Sage Publications and Palgrave-Macmillan. He is extensively published in both monographs and journals, including Tu Chwith, Twentieth Century British History, Media History, Welsh History Review and Llafur: Journal of Welsh Labour History. 

Reviews:
With respect to A History of Independent Television in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2010)

“…Jamie Medhurst’s thoroughly researched and engagingly written study of independent television in Wales not only supplies a piece previously missing in the history of broadcasting in Britain, but adds to the growing literature on the significance of the nation and broadcasting-based struggles with national identity so central to the construction of culture in the twentieth century and beyond…”
Professor Michele Hilmes 


Selected Publications:
A History of Independent Television in Wales (University of Wales Press, 2010)
The Early Years of Television and the BBC 1923-1939 (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) 

Contributed to:
Researcher’s Guide to British Film and Television Collections (contributor) (British Universities Film and Video Council, 1993)
A Nation and its Books (contributor) (National Library of Wales, 1998)
Cof Cenedl XVII (contributor) (Gomer, 2002)
The Television History Book (contributor) (British Film Institute/University of California Press, 2003)
The BFI Television Handbook 2005 (contributor) (British Film Institute, 2004)
ITV Cultures: Independent Television over Fifty Years (contributor) (Open University Press, 2005)
Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (contributor) (ABC-Clio, 2006)
Tele-Visions: Methods and Concepts in Television Studies (contributor) (British Film Institute, 2006)
Re-Viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography (contributor) (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
A European Television History (contributor) (Blackwell, 2008)
Narrating Media History (contributor) (Routledge, 2008)
The International Encyclopedia of Communication (contributor) (Blackwell, 2008)