Curator, television
Elinor Groom began working as television curator for the BFI National Archive in 2018 on a maternity cover contract, before joining the team permanently from 2022. Previously she was a curator at the National Science and Media Museum, where her projects included the Action Replay exhibition and the Sound and Vision galleries.
Elinor has contributed writing to Hands on Media History (eds John Ellis and Nick Hall, 2020), The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and the BBC History website. In 2016 she completed her PhD on the history of Southern Television and the regional franchises of the early ITV network, co-supervised by the University of Nottingham and the BFI National Archive’s special collections curatorial team. She has an MA in Film Studies and Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia, and previously interned at the Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, NY.