Bob Dickinson Archive
Date range: 1960’s - 2022
Medium: Archive
Number of items: 1500 approximately.
Bob Dickinson is a journalist, broadcaster and radio producer based in Manchester. He is a regular contributor to art journals including Art Monthly, The Double Negative, Corridor 8 and a-n News. Previously Bob worked as a producer for BBC Radios 1, 2 and 4, and at Granada Television, BBC Television and Channel 4 developing arts and culture programmes both local and national.
Bob’s archive is a summary of over 40 years work within the streams of arts and pop culture. The main focus of the archive is on music journalism – both written and recorded but there are strong political and wider socio – cultural threads that cover psychogeography, city re-generation and urbanism, left wing and radical politics as well as representations of the key pop culture moments from the late 1960’s through to the resurgent fanzine culture of the 2000’s.
The archive consists of paper items – letters, correspondence, scripts, magazines, fanzines and newspapers, radio broadcast notes and proposals, cassette tapes of interviews and radio broadcasts, 1/4” tapes of interviews and broadcasts, many in unedited form, and VHS broadcast and recorded copies of TV programmes – either produced by or involving Bob, or copies of rare items for reference.
The periodicals contain many key items from the 60’s underground and punk periods as well as what will now be almost impossible to find fanzines from the late 70’s through to the mid 2000’s – many of which are Manchester focussed.
The unedited radio tapes include interviews and productions with Joy Division, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, Glastonbury, Alan Ginsberg, Mick Farren, Tony Wilson and The Jam.
The collection is of interest to researchers across many disciplines, including history, popular culture, music, design, literature, sociology and politics.
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