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  1. Look at Thomas Hardy - Man of Wessex

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 35 minutes), £34.95

    Looks at the life and works of Thomas Hardy. The film captures the atmosphere and moods of Wessex - the landscape and places which inspired Hardy’s novels and poems.The narrator is Gerald Pitman, ‘Dorset...

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  2. Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya (2006)

    Director
    Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Östör
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £50.00

    For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...

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  3. Wife of Bath’s Prologue, The (Cd-Rom) (1996 Multimedia)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A CD-ROM containing the transcriptions of all 58 of the extant manuscripts (witnesses) of the work, plus a word-by-word collation of each, digital images of all the 1200 pages (manuscript and early printed...

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  4. Manuscripts of Timbuktu, The (2012)

    Director
    Zola Maseko
    Producer
    David Max Brown
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $195.00

    A film on how the legendary Timbuktu became one of the world’s leading scholarly and trading centres during the 12 - 15th centuries. It dispels the myth that Africa had no science or written culture before...

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  5. Medieval Realms, 1 (1993 Multimedia)

    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A multimedia reference source covering English history from 1066 to 1500. Includes 800 full-screen colour images of manuscripts, maps, artefacts, buildings and sites. Includes chronicles, letters, wills,...

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  6. Jacobean Box, The (1993 Radio)

    Director
    Sue Wilson

    A radio play by Don Taylor that encompasses newly discovered Shakespearean manuscripts and puts academic reputations on the line...

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  7. Sultan Baybars’ Qur’An (2002)

    Subject
    Art; Librarianship; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £12.95

    The Royal Mamluk Baybars’ Qur’an is recognised as the masterpiece of its time. It was produced in Cairo during 1304-6 and is called after the Mamluk ruler Baybar II who commissioned it. The calligraphic...

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  8. Magna Carta (1992 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., £12.95 (inclusive)

    Looks at the British Library’s two surviving copies of Magna Carta, as well as other medieval documents and footage of the places central to the story of Magna Carta, including Canterbury, Dover castle,...

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  9. Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Teresa Hunt
    Subject
    Archaeology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Considers the latest scientific evidence concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls and shows how archaeology is not only providing an insight into the documents, but is also fuelling the controversy over how the...

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  10. Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych (1993 Video)

    Director
    Dilliam Gordon
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    The Wilton Diptych, a rare surviving example of English panel painting from the later Middle Ages, is one of the most exquisite yet enigmatic paintings ever made, and its origin and purpose are shrouded in...

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