This publication, which is also a special issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Media, was the outcome of a two-year long series of conferences and events attended by doctoral students, archivists, and scholars from across the United Kingdom to discuss and debate the use of archives in their interdisciplinary study of moving images. Across this collection of articles, scholars ask: how is the archive, as a repository of memory and of the past, used to construct cultural history? What can archives tell us about the formation of particular categories of identity? How can the ephemeral, like the digital, be archived
