It was created by a research team led by Professor Justin Smith, Director of the Cinema and Television History Institute, working closely with the George Eliot Archive and the George Eliot Fellowship. The rich resource, which traces the production history of the landmark series, shot on location in the Lincolnshire town of Stamford, is furnished with over 300 multi-media assets, almost 500 notes and 41 editorial commentaries. It brings together over 50 years' worth of documents (screenplays, notes, letters, research materials) by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies and it takes visitors on a journey, from the novel to the final tv production, through layers of scripts, correspondence, interviews, photographs and audio and video clips. The team has created a new interactive website that shows, in detail, how George Eliot’s classic novel, Middlemarch, was adapted, by one of Britain's most admired television dramatists, as a 6-part BBC serial in 1994. Researchers at the University of Nottingham and De Montfort University Leicester have revealed exactly how a renowned screenwriter turned a classic novel into a hit BBC television drama.
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