Abstract:Memory is theorised as constructive and unreliable, while television has
been characterised as forgettable and guilty of undermining memory. In a
recent series of oral history interviews I asked British women of different
generations to tell me their memories of television in the period 1947 to
1989. This article presents some of their memories to demonstrate how, far
from undermining memory,… Show more
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