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News from USA - Ada Exchanged Job

Date released

17 Mar 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1032A

NoS ID

015634

Story no

5 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: British Girl Swaps Job. DESCRIPTION: Ada Fishburn from County Durham, who exchanged jobs with Mary Uglianitzi of New York, finds out what conditions in the US are like, and seems to...

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Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing

Subject

Mathematics; Science

Documentary in which Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada Lovelace’s remarkable life: a 19th-century countess whose work helped give rise to the modern era of computing. [60 minutes]

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African American Shakespeare: Past Present Future (2021 Video)

Video recording of a live virtual panel discussion moderated by David McCandless (Southern Oregon University). Participants include: L. Peter Callender (African-American Shakespeare Company), Jennie...

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Linda Sturley search (1982)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with Ada Webb, about the search for her daughter Linda Sturley, aged 29, who vanished in Biggin Hill, Kent, in 07/82. Female interviewer not identified. (Linda’s husband Rick Sturley...

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Ada Wins Hen Race by Scrag Neck in Washington

Date released

27 Sep 1937

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

391

NoS ID

056699

Story no

14 / 14

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Outsider Wins The Cambridgeshire

Date released

31 Oct 1932

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2255

NoS ID

385017

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Pullover wins the big Newmarket handicap at 100-1. Ada Dear and Pharaoh III placed.

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Mathematics and Culture (2015)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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Terry Waite release (1991)

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Press conference

21:00 IRN news bulletin read by Iain Ramage focusing on the release by his kidnappers of Church of England envoy, Terry Waite, following his abduction in Beirut, Lebanon in 1987. American hostage Tom...

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Babbage and Lovelace (2015)

Subject

Mathematics

The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who may be said to have pioneered the modern computer age with his ‘difference engines’ and his ‘analytical engine’,...

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100 to 1 - 25 to 1 - 100 to 1

Date released

27 Oct 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/86

NoS ID

090210

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Pullover - "Ada Dear" and "Pharaoh 3" - 1st, second and 3rd in the Cambridgeshire. Once again demonstrate the ‘glorious (!) uncertainty of the turf!'.

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