March 3, 2020, by Angela Shearsmith

On trial: BBC handbooks, annual reports and accounts, 1927-2002 (British Online Archives) 

BBC handbooks, annual reports and accounts, 1927-2002 (British Online Archives) 

We are pleased to announce a month’s trial for BBC handbooks, annual reports and accounts, 1927-2002 and  BBC Listener research department report 1937-c.1950

This collection contains handbooks, annual reports and accounts published by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 1927 and 2002. In addition, the collection includes a review of each year’s public service broadcasting, with detailed schedules, audience research, performance and objective tables, commentaries, and editorials. Together, these documents provide students and researchers with a unique opportunity to examine the social and cultural forces that shaped Britain in the 20th century.

Insights include:

• The annual report for 1945-1946 describes the affect that the end of the war had, both on the BBC’s programming and on the audience it had to reach.
• The annual reports reveal which programs the UK was watching and listening to each year, broken down by theme.
• The handbooks include financial information and ratings data. They were also printed during World War Two, covering that gap in the annual reports.

The trial runs from  3^rd March 2020 until 2^nd April 2020

Do let us know what you think. Please send your feedback to the Libraries Collections team: collections@nottingham.ac.uk 

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