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...public event later that winter. On 23 December, an orchestra made up of musicians from the nations involved in World War Two assembled in the Philharmonie to play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. Two days later, on Christmas morning, the performance was repeated in East Berlin’s Schauspielhaus, and broadcast live to the world. This was...

...public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this dubious honour. Not far behind was the Park Hill estate in Sheffield. Completed in 1961, Park Hill was intended to provide local authority housing for thousands of people. A largely working-class industrial city, whose best days were behind it, the city fathers of Sheffield hoped...

...public spheres – but with little awareness of their value to future generations of film archivists and historians. The organisations were the bodies, from government level downwards to anti-establishment militants, who sought to harness the medium to help spread their message. Sometimes it was ‘official’ information and education that emerged, about the latest...