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Empire to Commonwealth (1975 Audio)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 60 min.

Side 1: From Empire: charts the transition from the unity of Empire to the political and economic disunity of the Commonwealth. Side 2: To Commonwealth: considers the common social institutions of the...

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Andrei Rublev (1969 Video)

aka: Andrei Rublyov

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Producer

Tamara Ogorodnikova

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Portrays the social and political upheavals of 15th century Russia through the life and experiences of icon painter Andrei Rublev. Shelved by the Soviet authorities and not seen until 1971.

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British and Europe, The: Suspicion and Commitment (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to closely examine Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are...

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State Apart, A (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

CD-ROM

Chronicles the poltics of Northern Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights period in the late 1960s to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, using personal testimonies, video footage, photographs,...

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Tibet: The Bamboo Curtain Falls (2012)

Producer

Simon Normanton

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), $7.49

A 1981 episode of The World About Us that documents the history of political struggle between Tibet and China through archival film shot by western travellers in the early part of the century. Shows daily...

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Labour 1945-1951: Public Ownership and the Welfare State (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to examine Britain’s post-war Labour Government (1945-51). Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are compared and...

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Black Death, The (1996 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 19 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Between 1347 to 1351 25 million people in Europe were killed by the plague. The programme looks at the effect of the plague on ordinary people of the time, and at the lasting political, economic and social...

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Simon Schama’s American Future: A History (2008)

Subject

Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £25.99

As the United States prepares for the 2008 election, historian Simon Schama presents a personal view of how America arrived at where it is today, and the challenges it faces for the future. With the US...

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Britain and the Superpowers 1945-1962 (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to examine Britain’s relations with the USA and the USSR from 1945 to 1962. Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are...

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Poetry and Landscape (1993 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Art; English language and literature; History

Distribution

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

Looks at 18th-century landscape paintings and at poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as providing a metaphor for...

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