Newsletter: I'm All Right Jack and Room at the Top (1959)
Reflections on teaching post-war British cinema to first-year Cambridge historians.
There was a film paper run by Colin Shindler during my first year at Cambridge. I desperately wanted to take it, but by mistake I was allocated the History of Collecting. Too timid at the time, I didn’t put up much of a fight - something I deeply regretted as I spent hour after hour looking at historic sets of mugs and memorabilia. When it came to choos…