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Six-part BBC series about the story of one village through the whole of English history. Using documents, landscape, buildings, science and archaeology, and with the help of the villagers themselves,...
Covers: England’s monastic past; the religious orders on the eve of the Reformation; the royal attack; how and why it succeeded; reactions, aftermath and survival. Presented by Professor J J Scarisbrick.
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...
Professor H R Loyn looks at the European and English contexts of the Norman conquest, at the organisations and military strengths of the Normans, and at the personalities involved. He describes the battle of...
The conflict between the Tory party and church leaders about such questions as the Falklands service, a new and less militarist national anthem, and the British nuclear deterrent. The Church of England has...
This film describes the use of limestone as a building material. It also explores its failure, repair and conservation. Topicscovered include: Geology; Quarrying; Carving and Dressing; Laying; Defects;...
Boston’s magnificent buildings bear testimony to the wealth that was generated in medieval days when the port of Boston was, for a short time, more important that the port of London. The famous Boston...
A film based on Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More’s personal conflict when King Henry VIII asks his support in breaking with Rome and forming the Church of England.
Looks at three houses designed by one of the leading modernist partnerships in England in the 1930s: Connell, Ward and Lucas. The houses are ‘High and Over’ in Amersham, New Farm in Haslemere, and Moor...
Examines common defects caused by long-term water saturation and explains how saturation can be avoided. Looks at specific problems of frost attack, efflorescence, staining, sulphate attack and wall tie...
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