Curriculum Vitae

Toby Haggith works in the Imperial War Museum's Film and Video Archive, where he is Head of the Public Services Section, and programmes the cinema. He has lectured widely on various aspects of film and social history. His doctorate, undertaken at the Centre for Social History, University of Warwick, was on British films on housing and town planning from 1939-51.

Publications (selection)

Toby Haggith has published articles on British peace-aims films of the Second World War, official film and British national identity, the Isotype films of Otto Neurath, reconstructing the 'official' score for Battle of the Somme, and a comparison of Saving Private Ryan (1998) with army combat film shot on the Normandy beaches. He is co-editor (together with Joanna Newman) of "Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television Since 1933" (Wallflower Press - London - New York - 2005)..