Background
The daughter of the cartoonist Sir David Low, she gained her Bachelor of Science in sociology and economics in 1944 from the London School of Economics, and received her doctorate from the University of London in 1949.
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Rachael Low
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London School of Economics.
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She published, in seven volumes between 1948 and 1985, The History of the British Film which examines, in exacting detail, film production in Britain from its origins in 1896 up until 1939. Low was awarded a Research Fellowship by Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge to facilitate her work on the later volumes of the series. The film critic Matthew Sweet has criticised Low"s "tyrannous influence" on the writings of subsequent film historians.
The annual Rachael Low Lecture was established in 2007 in her honour, as part of the British Silent Film Festival.
