Yana Agafonova awarded the Mervyn Heard Award of the The Magic Lantern Society

Congratulations to Yana Agafonova, member of the YRUSH programme, for being awarded the Mervyn Heard Award of the The Magic Lantern Society!

Agafonova’s award winning article discusses the use of magic lanterns in public readings in late Imperial Russia, as an early form of mass media. It suggests that Russia was a progressive actor in the development of mass media, and part of international networks.

Read more about the Magic Lantern Society: http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/awards/