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King Cotton’s Palace (1984 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how Manchester Town Hall was designed to afford practical accommodation for a municipal bureaucracy and at the same time to express the growing power and wealth of the city of Manchester in the 19th...

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Time Team: The New Town of a Norman Prince (1994 Video)

aka: New Town of a Norman Prince, The

Director

Graham Dixon

Producer

Tim Taylor

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A oak beam and some stone arches link a house in Much Wenlock in Shropshire to the development of the new town 800 years earlier. The discovery of evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall, identification of...

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Town Bloody Hall (1979 Film)

Director

Chris Hegedus; D A Pennebaker

Producer

D A Pennebaker

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A record of a debate on the issues of women’s liberation held under the aegis of the Theater for Ideas, in New York’s Town Hall on 30 April 1971. Novelist Norman Mailer chairs a panel consisting of...

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Exploring Roman Britain (1981)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 minutes), £20.00

Uses the collections of the Verulamium Museum and the reconstructions of Alan Sorrell to recreate Roman town life. It is produced as a series of three shorter programmes: HOW THE TOWN GREW, LIVING IN THE...

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Aston’s Villas (1977 Film)

Director

Nigel E Haverly; Jennifer Tann

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the development of the township of Aston, built within the old park walls of Aston Hall. When the direct line of the Holte family died out Aston Hall was leased to James Watt Jnr and it was only after...

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Harper Audio: Ts Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’

Subject

Literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. T.S. Eliot reads his classic poem "The Waste Land." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Harvard, Eliot...

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Harper Audio: John Donne

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. HarperAudio! presents the love poetry of John Donne, read by academy-award winning actor Richard Burton. This...

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Harper Audio: Robert Frost

Subject

Literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) reads "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After...

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Ts Eliot Reading the Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems (1993)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), £10.99

TS Eliot reads some of his most celebrated poems, including ‘The Wasteland’. In this poem, Eliot expresses his view that the Western city had become a stale and sterile desert. In ‘The Four...

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Wigan Technical and Mining College (1988 Video)

Director

Chris Maule

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 133 min.

A visual record of the Wigan Technical and Mining College, a Grade 2 listed building with many unique features of social and architectural interest. The building is due to become the new town hall and...

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