Video Gallery
Welcome to our selection of short videos by and/or about the AMSR. We have categorised the videos by broad topic area and within each category, videos are arranged in approximate date order, starting with the most recent. We hope you find them interesting and useful.
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AMSR Summer Events
Book Launches
Archive Insights
Developing the Archive
Testimonials
Cinema Research in the 1960s
Please note that some videos may contain third-party advertising, the content of which is beyond our control.
The MRS 2021 and 2022 Conferences and AMSR 2021 Spring Event were conducted entirely on video. Interviews conducted with speakers at the Archive’s February 2020 event were filmed in the IPA’s library before the event began, a month before the first UK lockdown. You can also review our news item on that evening’s proceedings as a whole.
AMSR Summer Events
AMSR’s Summer Event 2025 – all proceedings including Q&A session (1hr 11m)
AMSR’s Summer Event 2024 – speakers, discussion and Q&A session (1hr 07m)
AMSR’s 2023 Summer Event and launch of Book 3: ‘Researching the public: post-war policy, politics and polling’ (1hr 14m)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: welcome from President Denise Lievesley CBE; archive update from CEO Adam Phillips (9m 47s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Sue Robson discusses the latest initiatives from Marketing to showcase the Archive (5m 46s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Phyllis Macfarlane on the aims, aspirations and challenges for the Contents team (6m 32s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Phyllis Macfarlane introduces Archive user Professor Claire Langhamer (7m 54s)
Book Launches
AMSR’s Summer Event and launch of Book 3: ‘Researching the public: post-war policy, politics and polling’ (1hr 14m)
Book launch event 30th November 2021: Professor Barwise introduces four short talks from contributors (29m 34s)
Archive Insights
‘Buried Gold in Recycled Research’: discussing the Archive’s value as a resource for social historians (21m 21s)
Ben Page, Chief Executive of Ipsos MORI, asks ‘what can we learn from history?’ (12m 38s)
Sir John Curtice tells us who he believes will find the Archive most useful (1m 20s)
Prof. Paddy Barwise, AMSR Chair, discusses who might benefit from the Archive (1m 08s)
Sir John Curtice on why he believes the Archive is such a valuable resource for students, academics, marketers, journalists… (1m 58s)
Prof. Denise Lievesley, AMSR President, explains the importance of the Archive (1m 23s)
Alice Naylor, Modern British Historian, and Phyllis Macfarlane, Head of Content at the AMSR, explore the importance of market and social research in understanding the history of real people.
Chaired by Louella Miles of the AQR, Professor Claire Langhamer discusses Modern British History with Phyllis Macfarlane and Peter Bartram of the AMSR, exploring the importance of qualitative research in understanding the history of real people and society today.
Developing the Archive
2021 MRS Impact conference: Adam Phillips talks about the rationale and history of the AMSR – intro Prof. Barwise (7m 57s)
AMSR Chair of Marketing Committee Sue Robson at the 2021 MRS Impact conference on 17th March (9m 04s)
AMSR Chair of Content Committee Phyllis Macfarlane at the 2021 MRS Impact conference on 17th March (9m 17s)
At the MRS Impact conference 2021, four senior AMSR team members discuss what’s surprised them since joining the Archive (3m 23s)
Prof. Paddy Barwise, AMSR Chair, talks about the challenges ahead for the Archive (1m 02s)
Testimonials
Six short endorsements of the AMSR, recorded at the 2024 AMSR Summer Event
James Whaley, CEO of OvationMR (00:59sec)
Kelly Beaver, Chief Executive, IPSOS UK & Ireland (00:42sec)
David Tross, Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck College (00:24sec)
James Endersby, Chief Executive, Opinium (00:39sec)
Patrick Barwise, Emeritus Professor, Marketing, London Business School & Chair, AMSR (01:41)
Richard Asquith, formerly Head of Development, now CEO, AMSR (01:16)
Cinema Research in the 1960s
Phyllis Macfarlane of the AMSR interviews John Bittlestone about cinema research in the 1960s. Part 1 of 3: The Issue of Cinema Advertising post WW2 (9m 36s)
Phyllis Macfarlane’s interview with John Bittlestone about cinema research in the 1960s. Part 2 of 3: Why the Boulting Brothers? (11m 19s)
The final instalment of our interview with John Bittlestone recalling cinema research in the 1960s. Part 3 of 3: The Story of Peter (10m 51s)