Results

England - Scotland: A Marriage in Crisis?

Director

Jean-Louis Cros

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

The Cheviot Hills and Hadrian’s Wall mark the historical frontier between England and Scotland. Today the divide is marked by much more. The Scottish spirit of independence, which has endured since the...

DVD Find Other To order

Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

DVD Find Other To order

Eighty Days, The (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A picture of the intensive V-1 attack on Southern England in June 1944, of the destruction of the flying bombs by the combined efforts of the Anti-Aircraft, Balloon and Fighter Commands, and of the damage done.

DVD Find Other Record only

Mayflower Pilgrims, The (1995 Video)

Director

Peter Conner; Alan Mumby

Producer

Peter Conner; Alan Mumby

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 43 minutes), £19.99

Tells the story of the Separatists, a non-conformist religious movement, from its beginnings in England near the end of the 16th century to the journey of the ‘Mayflower’, which arrived at Cape Cod...

DVD Find Other To order

Soils of the Fell Sandstone (1991 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

Shows the range of soils found in one area of northern England and explains reasons for their formation. Shows upland soil types ranging from brown earths and podzols to gley and peat soils in their...

DVD Find Other To order

First World War, The: Life on the Home Front in North West England (2014)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £12.00

Footage from the North West Film Archive showing life on the home front in North West England during World War I. Clips include the the Accrington Pals, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment...

DVD Find Other To order

Agriculture in England 1650-1900 (1970 Audio)

Subject

History

Distribution

Audio (Cassette)

Side 2: Examines the relationship between the agricultural sector and the rest of the economy over about 350 years, considering especially the contributions of agriculture to early industrial development....

DVD Find Other Record only

Cold Water Supply (1997)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 26 minutes), £65.00

This film describes common water sources and the principles and practice of treatment, distribution and domestic installations. It focuses on direct and indirect systems and includes details of: treatment...

DVD Find Other Online

Rubens and England (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Richard Bigham

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at Rubens’ career in England, and in particular at the recently restored eight-panel ceiling of the Whitehall Banqueting House commissioned by Charles I in 1629, and examines the meanings that the...

DVD Find Other To order

Story of England (2010)

aka: Michael Wood’s Story of England

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £10.92

Six-part BBC series about the story of one village through the whole of English history. Using documents, landscape, buildings, science and archaeology, and with the help of the villagers themselves,...

DVD Find Other To order