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Very British Coup, A (1988 Video)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

DVD

The complete television drama series, based on the novel by Chris Mullen, MP, in which a charismatic steelworker is elected prime minister on a radical socialist platform. When he calls for the dismantling...

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Russian Civil War (2 Vols), The (1992 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. b&w/col. 52 min. each, 2001 sale: £2.99 (inclusive) each

Covers the consequences of Lenin’s return from Swiss exile to overthrow temporary prime minister Kerensky, the founding of the Red Army in early 1918, the treaty with the Germans at Brest-litovosk and the...

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Prime Minister on Prime Ministers, A: Sir Harold Wilson in Conversation with David Frost (2009)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 325 minutes), £19.99

Veteran television interviewer and presenter Sir David Frost is the only person to have interviewed all six British prime ministers in office between 1964 and 2007, and all US presidents from 1969 to the...

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Euskadi Hors d’Etat (1984 Video)

aka: Basque Country, The: A Stateless Nation

Director

Arthur McCaig

Subject

Politics & government; Spanish studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 99 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Examines the Basque-Spanish conflict, using archival material and interviews to illustrate events such as the bombing of Guernica in 1937, the execution of the Prime Minister Carero Blanco by Basque...

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Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (1994 Video)

Producer

Denys Blakeway

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 125 min.

Examines the clashes of personality, policy and ideology that went on behind the closed doors of Number Ten during Margaret Thatcher’s years as prime minister, particularly the enmity between Mrs Thatcher...

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Is Democracy Working? (7 Parts) (1988 Video)

Director

David Goldby

Producer

David Jones

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 7 x 26 min.

The programmes examine key political questions and simplify often complex ideas. Four students of politics from differing backgrounds are helped by MPs, Lords, commentators and lecturers. Individual...

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Story of Margaret Thatcher, The (2010)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

This programme profiles the life and career of controversial British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Dubbed ‘The Iron Lady’ by friends and foes alike, Thatcher led her country through the hard times of...

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Fawley Achievement (1951)

Subject

Energy; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £8.00

The building of the Esso Petroleum Company’s refinery at Fawley, on Southampton Water in Hampshire, was an important part of Britain’s post-war industrial development. Its official opening in September...

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Life and Debt (2004)

Subject

Development studies; Economics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 82 minutes), £7.99

Looks at the less savoury effects of globalisation on the island of Jamaica. With independence came the need for money for development, but the strictures from the IMF and World Bank that came with the loans...

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First World War: 1914: Voices from the BBC Archive (2014)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £10.99

Audio compilation of clips taken from the BBC archive relating to the First World War. Amongst the items are troops of the British Expeditionary Force recalling the exhausting retreat from Mons, the success...

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