Our declared purpose is to encourage, promote, and publish research on cinema building history (which includes theatres which have been used for film). In addition we offer discounts on our publications to members. We publish a quarterly journal, The Mercia Bioscope, sent free to all members. We are the largest publisher of books on cinema buildings, the architects, and the owners in the country.

We have previously organised a number of annual "celebration" events forming themed one day conferences about aspects of Cinema history.

Occasionally we issue a free booklet - the one in Spring 1998 was on The Black Family: their circuits and their cinemas by Frank Manders, the author of The Cinemas of Newcastle and The Cinemas of Gateshead. It is available (£2.00 inc. p+p.) from the Sales Officer. The one in February 1999 on The Cinemas of the Weisker Brothers by Brian Hornsey. He has published many 'cheap and cheerful' booklets on towns around the country with brief details of their cinemas under his own imprint Fuchsiaprint of Stamford. These are all available from our Sales Officer. Inside The Mercia Bioscope you will find articles on towns, on individual cinemas, multiplex openings, cinema news, book reviews, and the Collector's Corner, for sales and wants at a very low advertising cost for use by both members and non-members. (Copy for this comes to the Administrator- all else to the Editor.)