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Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Producer

Fred Zinnemann

Subject

Drama; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

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.

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Date

3 Feb 2015, 10:34

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...

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Henry VIII (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

Two-part television drama depicting the life of King Henry VIII, his tempestuous 38 year reign and his fraught relationships with his many wives. In the first part, Henry is desperate to produce a son and...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Renaissance Court Architecture in England and Scotland (2 Parts) (2001)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes total), £85.00

The two sections look at the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey and Renaissance architecture in the Scottish court.

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 2 (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

Monarchy The Complete Second Series DVD focuses essentially on the Tudors and Stuarts, encompassing how Henry VII rescued England from the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, and his solution to the political...

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Elizabeth (2011)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £17.99

The only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was born on September 7 1533 in Greenwich Palace. From her accession in 1558 to her death in 1603, she was a great, beloved, feared, complex,...

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Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings (2012)

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £15.00

A three-part television series in which art historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as revealed through illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts...

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Hides (Historical Document Expert System) (15 Parts) (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A series of computer-based packages containing primary source material for teaching history ranging in time from the end of the 11th century to World War 2. Each title contains source material and support...

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David Starkey’s Elizabeth (4 Parts) (2003)

aka: Elizabeth

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 197 minutes), £19.99

Professor David Starkey chronicles the story of Queen Elizabeth I, first broadcast in 4-parts on Channel 4. The series uses a combination of tableaux, testimony from descendants, contemporary documents,...

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