Primary navigation
See also...
Researching Home Movies
National and regional film archives around the UK collect and preserve amateur and home movie footage. There are substantial collections of amateur film in the BFI National Archive (see Home Movies in the Archive) and in the BFI Mediatheques (see Home Movies in the BFI Mediatheques). If you are interested in researching film in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the English regions, or in donating material, please contact the relevant archive.
Archives around the UK
Scottish Screen Archive
National Library of Scotland, 39-41 Montrose Avenue, Hillington
Park, Glasgow G5 4LA
Telephone: 0845 366 4600
Area covered: Scotland
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU
Telephone: 01970 632828
Area covered: Wales
Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive
Contact:
archive@northernirelandscreen.co.uk
Note: This is an online collection only; Northern Ireland does not have a dedicated
film archive.
Imperial War Museum
Film and Video Archive
Film and Video Archive, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London
SE1 6HZ
Telephone: 020 7416 5294/3
Area covered: Films relating to war and military history in
the UK
Sunny Clacton, 1939 (East Anglian Film Archive)
East Anglian Film Archive
The Archive Centre, Martineau Lane, Norwich NR1 2DQ
Telephone:
01603 592664
Region covered: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and
Suffolk
London's
Screen Archives
Contact: screenheritage@filmlondon.org.uk
Region covered: London
Note: LSA is not one archive but a network of organisations
in London that hold some audiovisual materials. Borough archives are members and
many have home movies in their collections.
Derby Charter Celebrations, 1954 (Media Archive for Central England)
Media Archive for
Central England
The Media Archive for Central England, The University of Leicester,
1 Salisbury Road, Leicester LE1 7QR
Telephone: 0116 252 5066
Region covered: East Midlands: Nottinghamshire; Leicestershire; Lincolnshire (except
North Lincolnshire); Derbyshire; Northamptonshire; Rutland. West Midlands:
Herefordshire; Shropshire; Worcestershire; Staffordshire; Warwickshire and the
metropolitan county of the West Midlands including the metropolitan boroughs of
the city of Wolverhampton; Dudley; Walsall; Sandwell; the city of Birmingham;
Solihull and the city of Coventry.
V.E. Day, 1945 (Northern Region Film and Television Archive)
Northern Region Film
and Television Archive
Northern Region Film and Television Archive, School of Arts and
Media, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA
Telephone:
01642 384022
Region covered: County Durham, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tees Valley and Tyne and Wear
North West Film Archive
North West Film Archive, The Manchester Metropolitan University,
Minshull House, 47-49 Chorlton Street, Manchester M1 3EU
Telephone: 0161-247
3097
Region covered: Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Cumbria
Screen
Archive South East
Screen Archive South East, University of Brighton, Grand Parade,
Brighton BN2 0JY
Telephone: 01273 643 213
Region covered: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Medway, Surrey and West
Sussex
Southwest Film and
Television Archive
Southwest Film and Television Archive, Melville Building, Royal
William Yard, Plymouth PL1 3RP
Telephone: 01752 202650
Region covered:
from Gloucester in the north to the Isles Of Scilly in the west
Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Sussex Street, Winchester, Hampshire
SO23 8TH
Telephone: 01962 846154
Region covered: Southern central England and Hampshire. Works closely with Screen
Archive South East to cover Southeast and Southern central England.
Yorkshire Film Archive
Yorkshire Film Archive, York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk,
York YO31 7EX
Telephone: 01904 876550
Region covered: Yorkshire and the Humber
