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Dartington Hall

Date released

1973

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

760

NoS ID

329001

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Fifty years ago, in rural Devon, Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst created a revolutionary enterprise. Their achievement, the Dartington Hall Trust, put an end to agricultural depression in the area...

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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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Royal Horticultural Society

Date released

1977

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

963

NoS ID

329204

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 to encourage horticulture in all its forms. Today the society has 65,000 members around the world. It also has its own 200 acre experimental...

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Northern Ireland

Date released

1959

Series name

Topic

Issue no

7

NoS ID

329657

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: There are many ties that bind Northern Ireland with the United States. During the eighteenth century tens of thousands of Ulster men and women crossed the Atlantic to America, and, to the land...

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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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The Battle South of Arras

Date released

2 Sep 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

366-2

NoS ID

126733

Story no

3 / 5

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "British infantry under shot and shell." Long shot of explosions on the ground, soldiers seen nearby walking singly and spaced out along a line. Barbed wire and fencing seen in 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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Churchill Visits the Front

Date released

19 May 1944

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/50; Paramount Issue No.: 1388

NoS ID

156716

Story no

1 / 1

The Battle of Normandy. Allied troops cross Channel. The use of steel runways for the landings. German prisoners. Shots of Rommel inspecting Atlantic wall. Allies wreck German beach defences and march into...

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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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