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Heather Norris Nicholson

Heather Norris Nicholson holds honorary research positions at the University of Huddersfield and at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has encouraged archival, scholarly and popular interest in amateur film for decades through her writing, teaching and community outreach. Her own inter-disciplinary research has focused upon the amateur creativity of British men and women filmmakers. She has examined the historical development of Britain’s cinecamera-using culture and the specialist hobby press, as well as the production, circulation, interpretation and significance of people’s cine-stories in varied settings. Stories, aesthetics, visual memories, relationship to place and shifting meanings as images are re-encountered beyond their original context are some of the recurring themes traceable over this evolving body of work.