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Coming of Age (1999 Video)

aka: Romans in Britain, The: Coming of Age

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Off-air recording, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on what it was like for the inhabitants of Britain to be invaded and subjugated by the Romans. The initial rebellion and revolt by Boudicca was ruthlessly crushed, and a new, vibrant culture emerged....

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Farming Year: Europe (Part 2, Summer), The

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £16.95

Cameraman and farm machinery enthusiast Sascha Jussen goes to his native Germany as well as France, Belgium and Holland, to film a DVD series that shows clearly how farm machinery is used throughout the...

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Farming Year: Europe (Part 1, Spring), The

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £16.95

Cameraman and farm machinery enthusiast Sascha Jussen goes to his native Germany as well as France, Belgium and Holland, to film a DVD series that shows clearly how farm machinery is used throughout the...

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Farming Year: Europe (Part 4, Winter), The

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £16.95

Cameraman and farm machinery enthusiast Sascha Jussen goes to his native Germany as well as France, Belgium and Holland, to film a DVD series that shows clearly how farm machinery is used throughout the...

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Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, The (2017)

aka: The Seasons in Quincy

Director

Colin MacCabe; Christopher Roth; Tilda Swinton; Bartek Dziadosz

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £9.99

A four-part cinematic portrait of artist, philosopher and writer John Berger. In 1973, Berger moved from urban London to the tiny village of Quincy. These shorts examine different aspects of Berger’s life...

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Crossing the Border: Images of England in the 1930s (1991 Video)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines how England and Englishness were portrayed in the 1930s in poetry, advertisements, photographs and film. W H Auden, for example, drew attention to the discrepancy between the way ordinary English...

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'They Walked and Talked ...' a Dymock Poets’ Collection (2010)

Director

Rachel Plant

Producer

Cate Luck

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00

On the north-west borders of Gloucestershire, in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War, a literary community was formed which came to represent a significant development in the...

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Robinson in Ruins (2011)

Director

Patrick Keiller

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

Filmmaker Patrick Keiller produced, directed and edited this experimental film, the third in a series concerning the work of a fictional character named Robinson. Narrator Vanessa Redgrave speaks as a...

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Red Shift (1978)

Director

John Mackenzie

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £19.99

DVD release of the BBC TV ‘Play for Today’ from 1978, directed by John Mackenzie and adapted by Alan Garner from his own novel. Spanning three separate time periods, RED SHIFT tells the story of three...

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24 Square Miles and Harting - An English Village (2005)

Subject

Geography; History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 62 mintues), £19.99

Two films from the 1940s depicting rural life in Oxfordshire and Sussex at the time.

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