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is a Video game historian and producer with over twenty years of experience preserving the medium’s history, as well as the director of the Video Game History Foundation.

Frank tells us about the importance of preserving games and their history, and tells us the tale of his quest to recover a long lost game from the void, which lead him to some strange and unexplored places of the internet...

Conor Clarke runs the Marketing and Communications for the National Videogame Museum,  located in Sheffield, UK,  and parent charity, the BGI. 

The National Videogame Museum (NVM) is The NVM is run by the BGI, a charity that educates the public about the art, science, history and technology of videogames. As of Friday May 21st, the museum has reopened its doors and is looking forward to welcoming the public back to Play the Museum. 

Connor tells us about the ‘Animal Crossing Diaries Project’ the museum undertook during the first British Lockdown period ( and is continuing to accept submissions ahead of a public exhibition later this year) and he demonstrates that preserving games is about more than disks and cartridges - they in fact offer us a window into our wider cultural experiences.

Bryony Dixon is a curator with responsibility for the BFI National Archive’s extensive silent film collection. She has researched and written on many aspects of early and silent film, as well as programming for a variety of specialist film festivals and events worldwide. Her book 100 Silent Films, in the BFI Screen Guides series, was published in 2011 and she contributes regularly to Sight & Sound’s Primal Screen column.

She is lead curator in the BFI National Archive’s series of annual silent film restorations and commissioned live music. She is currently working on a book, The Story of Victorian Film, to be published in 2021, which developed out of her research on the BFI’s major Victorian Film project.

You can access the BFI’s digitised free archive collections via including the BFI’s complete Victorian Film collection, bringing together the earliest known British film material held and preserved in the BFI National Archive ranging from 1895-1901

Samantha Webb is the co-founder and narrative director of Clockwork Raven Studios, an indie studio making engaging narrative games. Her game writing credits include Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Broken Roads, Adopt Me!, Plague Inc, and Yokai Moon.

As well as being a member of BAFTA Games Crew and a Tentacle Zone Game Incubator participant, Samantha co-chairs the videogame committee of the Writer's Guild of Great Britain and was shortlisted for the Game Dev Heroes Game Writing and Narrative award in 2020.

She tells us about her love for the types of narratives that can only exist within Videogames, and why it’s important to preserve all creative voices behind all kinds of games for the sake of a truly diverse history of a still developing form of art.