Video gallery
This is a selection of short videos by and/or about the AMSR. We hope you find them interesting and useful.
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.
Browse the video collection by scrolling down. They are arranged in approximate date order, most recent at the top.
AMSR’s Summer Event 2024 – speakers, discussion and Q&A session (1hr 07m 24s)
AMSR’s Summer Event and launch of Book 3: ‘Researching the public: post-war policy, politics and polling’ (1hr 14m 41s)
‘Buried Gold in Recycled Research’: discussing the Archive’s value as a resource for social historians (21m21s)
Book launch event 30th November 2021: Professor Barwise introduces four short talks from contributors (29m34s)
AMSR Chair Patrick Barwise introduces CEO Adam Phillips to talk about the rationale and history of the AMSR (7m57s)
AMSR Chair of Content Committee Phyllis Macfarlane at the 2021 MRS Impact conference on 17th March (9m17s)
AMSR Chair of Marketing Committee Sue Robson at the 2021 MRS Impact conference on 17th March (9m04s)
Four senior AMSR team members discuss what’s surprised them since joining the Archive (3m23s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: welcome from President Denise Lievesley CBE; archive update from CEO Adam Phillips (9m47s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Sue Robson discusses the latest initiatives from Marketing to showcase the Archive (5m46s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Phyllis Macfarlane on the aims, aspirations and challenges for the Contents team (6m32s)
AMSR Virtual Event 2021: Phyllis Macfarlane introduces Archive user Professor Claire Langhamer (7m54s)
Ben Page, Chief Executive of Ipsos MORI, asks ‘what can we learn from history?’ (12m38s)
Sir John Curtice tells us who he believes will find the Archive most useful (1m20s)
Prof. Paddy Barwise, AMSR Chair, discusses who might benefit from the Archive (1m08s)
Prof. Paddy Barwise, AMSR Chair, talks about the challenges ahead for the Archive (1m02s)
Sir John Curtice tells us why he believes the Archive is such a valuable resource for students, academics, marketers, journalists… (1m58s)
Prof. Denise Lievesley, AMSR President, explains the importance of the Archive (1m23s)
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 (9m36s)
Phyllis Macfarlane’s interview with John Bittlestone about cinema research in the 1960s. Part 2 of 3: Why the Boulting Brothers? (11m19s)
The final instalment of our interview with John Bittlestone recalling cinema research in the 1960s. Part 3 of 3: The Story of Peter (10m51s)
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.