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Making of an Historian of Emigration, The (1994 Audio)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette., 1995 sale: £8.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Professor Charlotte Erickson of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, talks about her life and work, researching the lives of European emigrants to the USA.

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Leucocytes ('Rana Esculenta’): Emigration (1962 Film)

Director

H-J Engel

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The film documents the emigration of leucocytes from the blood vessels into the adjacent tissues. One can watch the occurrence in the small mesenteric veins of the frog. Made from material shot in 1961. An...

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Great Famine, The (1995 Video)

Director

Pete Lawrence

Producer

John Percival

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Tells of the devastating famine suffered by the Irish rural poor from 1845 to 1851, which led to over a million deaths. 1: Examines the social background of the Irish ‘potato culture’ and looks at the...

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Connemara Family, A (1983 Film)

Director

Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Since the great famines of 1840 Connemara, in the west of Ireland, has suffered from massive emigration as men and women were forced out by unemployment and poor living conditions. Now many exiles are...

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Rugged Island, The: A Shetland Lyric (1934 Video)

Director

Jenny Brown

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 42 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A documentary about a young couple who face the conflicting emotional ties of home with the promise of a new life through emigration from the Shetland Islands.

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When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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Shto Novovo (What’s New?): An Elegy for the Union (2004)

aka: What’s New?

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £10.00

A documentary about post-Soviet transition in Kyrgyzstan after a decade of structural reform. While illustrating the traditional pastoral life of the Kyrgyz (animated by Kyrgyz music) the film addresses...

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Industrial Action (Honeybees) (1974 Film)

Producer

Colin Willock

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the honey bee. Looks at the world of the workers inside the hive and into the cells of the honeycomb to observe the everyday life of a busy bee-city. The drones are waited on until they have completed...

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Britain 1750-1900 (2000 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 2000 sale: £7.50 (inclusive)

Series looking at the response to industrialisation and exploring how the day-to-day lives its people changed as Britain transformed into an industrialised nation. In five parts, covering: migration and...

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South West Donegal: Tradition and Change (1986 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

South-west Donegal is one of the most remote parts of Western Europe - a land of scattered settlements and small farms, In the past the economy was based on farming, fishing, spinning and weaving, and...

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