Digital Portfolio
The sections below give brief selection of written, audio and video material prepared for the web, social media, and broadcast
Final User Production
Dr Emmett Sullivan, VE Day | Royal Holloway, University of London (self-filmed and edited during the first lockdown 2020 lockdown to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe on 5 May, 2020)
Royal Holloway History Department @RHULHistory · 15 Aug 2019 Deputy Leader of @LibDemMEPs @LuisaPorritt is a graduate of the history department. We asked her about her time at Royal Holloway... (filmed and edited the short video, tweeted out during clearing and adjustment in 2019).
Media Appearances
Interviewed for BBC Radio Scotland’s Brainwaves series six episode ‘Beyond the Bomb’ (first broadcast 9 January, 2019)
Quoted in The Washington Post: Farhi, Paul. ‘Sanders Promotes an Altered Video of CNN Reporter, Sparking Allegations of Visual Propaganda’
9 November, 2018
Writing for the Web
University of London Worldwide
BA in History
HI1008 British Social and Economic History, 1945-97 (first year/level 4 half-unit)
Topic 6: The Welfare State
University of London Worldwide
BA in History
HI2011 Modern Times: International Economic History, 1901-1990 (second year/level 5 whole unit)
Topic 11: The British Economy and British Government Policy in the 1930s
‘Guam: Today’s Cuban Missile Crisis’? Fair Observer, 23 August, 2017
Blended Learning
HI3021/HS3371/2 ‘The Bomb’ - A History: Atomic Weaponry and Society in the Twentieth Century.
UoLW/RHUL thrid year/level six double unit.
The Cuban Missile Crisis: JFK, LeMay and the Legacy of Joe Kennedy
This was a ‘proof of concept’ trial, with two years of filming (postgraduates assisting behind the camera), to cut down the production costs - using digital cameras and lens acquired over the years; and a ‘learning by doing’ approach, whereby the author/presenter also undertakes the editing (with Davinci Resolve). This is an early ‘talking head’ version of one of the videos.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the Twentieth Century: The Camera Never Lies (University of London Worldwide/Coursera, 2013). User rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
From World War to White Heat: the RAF in the Cold War (with Ross Mahoney. RAFM/RHUL/Futurelearn, 2016). User rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Origins of the Vietnam War : ‘An Unwinnable Colonial Struggle’ (Academy/Udemy, 2021). Launched January, 2021
Belramin, Paolo. ‘Storia di Ursula, rapita nel bosco e morta (per errore) in una scatola.’ Corriere della Sera 14 October 2019.
Dr Barbara Zipser (Fujifilm X-H1, 27mm f/2.8; 1/20 sec, f/4, ISO640). A camera is always to hand; and it will be called upon regularly. Being published in Milan newspaper: happens rarely.
Lecture Capture via Facebook Live
This started in 2017, to provide students material while in hospital for routine keyhole surgery. Using iPhones, iPads or Samsung phones, lectures were live streamed and recorded from the lectern, using a tripod, LED panel and microphone, as an inexpensive way of providing students material to work through again after the class.
Using Facebook Live uncaps the capacity restriction of some phones, although limited at the time to 720P capture. These videos have been flipped and reorientated as needed; with the intention that they could be edited in with PowerPoint and other material for an online and blended version of the modules.
HS2112 ‘Peace that is no Peace’: The Global Cold War, 1945-98 (second year/level 5 half-unit). Lecture 2, 2017/18 - The Truman Doctrine.
HS3106 Historiography (final year/level 6 half-unit). Lecture 3, 2019/20 - The Death of Economic and Social History