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English Romantic Poets, The (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

CD-ROM on the English Romantic poets and their world, supported by visual images including Blake etchings and material from the collection of the Wordsworh Trust. Features over 70 poems by William Blake,...

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Quentin Blake: Tell Me a Picture

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 25 minutes), £5.00

For the Tell Me A Picture exhibition at the National Gallery, Quentin Blake, distinguished illustrator and Children’s Laureate, selected an alphabetical anthology of pictures with stories in mind. Each of...

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Romanticism and Revolution (1770 - 1870)

Subject

History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 23 minutes), £39.00

Investigates the Enlightenment roots of the American Revolution and examines its influence on the French Revolution. Illustrates how revolt became a romantic idea during the period-a passionate outburst by...

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Poetry in the National Curriculum: Before 1900 (2000)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £25.00

This double audio CD contains works by poets listed in the National Curriculum. They include William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Robert Herrick,...

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Human Waste (1991 Video)

Director

Kate Woods

Producer

Kate Woods

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

Examines the inherent drawbacks of our Victorian sewage systems and considers alternative ways of treating human waste - low-tech radical methods such as dry composting toilets, oxidisation pools and...

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Apartheid (4 Parts) (1986 Video)

Director

John Blake; Allan Segal

Producer

Mark Anderson; John Blake; Norma Percy; Allan Segal

Subject

History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 55 min.

Documentary recounting the history of apartheid in South Africa.

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Elstree 1976 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

Documentary written and directed by Jon Spira about the uncredited actors and extras who played minor roles in the first Star Wars film. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and extensive interviews with the...

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Tyger, The Rose and the Pleasure Dome, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 3 x 15 minutes), £19.99

Dramatisations and performances of poems written by major poets before 1914. Offers a wide range of poetry for analysis and interpretation.

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Across the Tracks: The Vlach Gypsies of Hungary (1988 Video)

aka: Vlach Gypsies

Director

John Blake

Distribution

Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Granada)

Vlach gypsies are unassimilated descendents of gypsy slaves in Wallachia in Romania in the 19th century. Explores the gypsies’ position in socialist Hungary through the eyes of three related families,...

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Great Pyramid, The: Gateway to the Stars (1994 Video)

Producer

Chris Mann

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Writers Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert claim that the Great Pyramid was an instrument of worship in the stellar cult of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, and that the precision with which it was constructed was...

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