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Denial (2017)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £5.25

Based on the book ‘Denial: Holocaust History on Trial’ by Professor Deborah Lipstadt, this feature film recounts Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against British scholar David Irving, who...

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Shakespeare and the Law (2011 Video)

Video podcast presenting an analysis of political and legal developments in late Elizabethan England and their representation in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on contemporary debates concerning the powers...

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Mabo: Life of an Island Man (1997 Video)

Director

Trevor Graham

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 87 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

On 3 June 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction that...

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Simulation of Manganism (1956 Film, Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film in the Wellcome’s collection of the papers of Dr Donald Hunter (1898-1977), occupational health expert. Professor F Lancis and Dr R Peñalver of the Research Department of Legal Medicine and...

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1870 Education Act, The (1970 Audio)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 30 minutes), £11.00

Focuses on major problems in late Victorian English society as factors in the campaign for the Act. The reasons for the emergence of the educational issue and the role of ‘religion’ and ‘class’ are...

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Sunday Times Case, The: European Protection of Human Rights (1981 Film)

Director

Ian Thompson

Producer

Philip Britton; Ian Thompson

Subject

Law

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The ‘Sunday Times’ case started when the newspaper began to campaign for proper compensation for the many British children who had been born severely handicapped because their mothers had taken the drug...

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McLibel (2005 Video)

Subject

Business studies; Economics; Law; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £125.00

The story of two ordinary people, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, who took on McDonalds in what became the biggest corporate PR disaster in history. They refused to apologise for publishing a leaflet...

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Slaves and Noble Savages: Equiano and the Enlightenment (1991 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Born in the 1740s, Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped by slavers in West Africa and subsequently spent many years in the British Navy, before eventually buying his freedom and becoming famous through his...

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Accountant of Auschwitz, The (2019)

Director

Matthew Shoychet

Subject

German studies; History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £7.00

Documentary about 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning, nicknamed "The Accountant of Auschwitz", who goes on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews at...

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Talmud (2007)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 230 minutes), £24.99

The Talmud is the second part of the Torah (the Old Testament), founded on the principles of tradition and oral transmission. A body of legal, legendary or philosophical texts, it is a mixture of singular...

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