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Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

Subject

History

This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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Restoration Comedy of Manners (1978 Audio)

Director

N.C. Collins

Producer

N.C. Collins

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. ? min., 2001 sale: £23.50 (inclusive)

A compilation of extracts from seven talks by Harold Brooks about aspects of Restoration comedy. Titles are: ‘What Sort of Comedy?' (47 min); The Dramatists’ Artistic Justification (45 min); Stage and...

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Water Once a Day (1985)

aka: Water Once a Day: Town Women of Cape Verde

Director

Tamara Wyss

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £20.00

In a poor suburb on the outskirts of the capital of Cape Verde, where one standpipe serves 3,000 people, and then only for three hours a day, Balila, who is 53 and blind, sells water. She has had a hard...

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Stepping into Management (6 Modules) (1991 Video)

Subject

Business studies; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, 19 videocassettes in 6 modules. VHS. col. 31-60 min each., 2000 sale: £2000.00 +VAT +p&p) complete course; £115.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 1; £420.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 3; £525.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 2; £315.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 4; £420.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 5; £210.00 +VAT +p&p) Module 6; £115.00 +VAT +p&p) individual videos (with notes where applicable)

Recordings of presentations from the July 1991 IEE Vacation School, which introduce key elements of mananagment and business awareness to engineering and science graduates and cover all aspects of management...

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Wild China (2008)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

A 5-part television series that lifts the veil on the world’s most enigmatic and magnificent country, delving into its vibrant habitats to reveal a land of unbelievable natural complexity. Journey across...

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Spring Re-Loaded 2 (8 Parts) (1996)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Out of distribution

Recordings of contemporary dance performances from the 1995 Spring Loaded season held at The Place theatre, London. The two-camera live-mix version does not interpret the work but does capture the...

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Epidemics, Pandemics and How to Control Them (2018)

Subject

Medical sciences

Some infections come in repeated epidemic waves, others are new to human populations. A known human threat such as influenza may mutate or a new infection jumps the species barrier from animals to humans:...

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Accelerators for Neutrons (2013)

Subject

Physics

Video recording of a lecture given by Dr David Findlay, head of the ISIS Accelerator Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, at Oxford University, on14th February 2013. Accelerators are used to produce...

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Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films (2001)

Subject

Media studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (PC Version, 129 minutes), £27.99

A CD-ROM exploring Russian cinema before 1919 in the context of life and culture in pre-revolutionary Russia. There are over 100 film clips (55 mins), 74 minutes of analysis and commentary by film scholar...

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Multimedia 1900: Experience and Entertainment in Everyday Life (2017)

Subject

Film studies; History

We know a great deal about media gadgetry in retrospect, but much less about how it was perceived and experienced by early users. Historians at the end of the 19th century have traditionally paid little...

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