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Amesbury Archer, The (2005)

aka: Was the Amesbury Archer the King of Stonehenge?

Subject

Archaeology; History

In May 2002 archaologists discovered the richest early Bronze Age burial ever found in Britain. The so-called Amesbury Archer was buried with gold earrings, copper knives, flint arrow heads and the stone...

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Pas d’Acier, Le, 1925 (2005)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, unknown), £24.99

A source based recreation of Serge Prokofiev and Georgi Yakoulov’s 1925 machine age ballet. Originally choreographed by Léonide Massine, the choreography and staging is here by Millicent Hodson and...

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Vintage Archers (3 Parts) (1988 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 6 audiocassettes. 3 x 145 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) each 2001 sale: £22.50 (inclusive) set

Three two-audiocassette packs containing collected excerpts from ‘The Archers’ radio serial drama, which was first broadcast on 1 January 1951. 1 (1988): These early episodes set the scene for the...

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Portrait of a Lady, The (1967)

Director

James Cellan Jones

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £19.99

In this version of the Henry James novel adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman, Suzanne Neve stars as the young Isabel Archer. On the death of her father, she refuses the hand of Mr. Goodwood and leaves her...

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Naga Videodisc, The (1990 Video)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Interactive videodisc. PAL. 12

The history and anthropology of the Naga peoples on the India-Burma border. Visual database of 54,000 separately addressable images, which include 6500 black and white photographs, 1350 colour photographs of...

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Stevenson’s Travels (1994)

Producer

John Archer

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 100 minutes), £125.00

Celebrates the life and work of Robert Louis Stevenson, who died on 3 December 1894 at the age of 44. Part 1 tells the story of Stevenson’s restless life, from a sickly childhood in Edinburgh, which he...

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Pack Up the Troubles (1991 Video)

Director

McLaughlin (Cahal); Lin Soloman

Producer

McLaughlin (Cahal); Lin Soloman

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Uses a specially commissioned MORI poll to assess how people in Britain view the continuing involvement of the government and army in Northern Ireland. Asks if a British government is capable of finding a...

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Brian Cox’s Jute Journey (2011)

Director

Brian Ross; Donald Alexander

Producer

John Archer

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 92 minutes), £16.33

Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee and grew up amid the clatter of the Jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The Jute trade, making hessian from India’s ‘golden’...

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Charles Rennie Macintosh: A Modern Man (1996 Video)

Director

Richard Downes

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., 1998 sale: £12.95 (inclusive)

Profile of Scottish artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh to mark the centenary of his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art. Looks at Mackintosh’s youthful intellectual curiosity, early successes...

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Ishi, The Last Yahi (1992 Video)

Director

Jed Riffe; Pamela Roberts

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 57 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of anthropologist Alfred Kreoeber and Ishi, who walked out of the hills of northern California in 1911, and was the last living Yahi Indian. Ishi spent the last four years of his life at the...

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