Collecting Footage.

In my continuing search for content to work with for my final show I have come across this guy who has provided an online database of programmes on Northern Irish conflict.

“Peter Heathwood was shot and paralysed in a gun attack on his home in 1979. Since 1981 he has recorded daily television news items, documentary programmes, history programmes, and current affairs programmes, about Northern Ireland for his own private use.

The bulk of the items he has recorded are made up of the daily news reports covering violent events, politics, organisations, and people. This news material is not yet catalogued. However, Peter Heathwood produced a listing of the documentary and current afairs programmes in his collection. Realising that the information contained within this listing would be of interest to people researching the Northern Ireland conflict, Peter Heathwood decided to contribute this listing to the CAIN web site. The listing was first made available in 2001 as simple web pages on the CAIN site (these can still be viewed here). However, it was decided to convert the listing into a searchable database.

Anyone requiring further information on the collection held by Peter Heathwood should contact him directly by email at:
peterheathwood@yahoo.co.uk

To search Peter Heathwood’s collection: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/heathwood/search.htm