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Summer Solstice

Date released

26 Jun 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2090A

NoS ID

027913

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Summer Solstice. DESCRIPTION: In spite of jeering and barracking by an unsympathetic crowd, the Druids of England held their traditional welcoming of dawn on the longest day of the year...

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Stonehenge hippies beaten by police (1988)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Police force back 3000 hippies at Stonehenge, Wiltshire who were trying to celebrate the summer solstice. Includes vox pop with terrified participants and police loudhailer heard. Julie Benson reports from...

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Violent clashes at Stonehenge (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the Earl of Cardigan (David Brudenell-Bruce) on providing short-term refuge for the so-called hippies involved in the clashes with the police over the use of Stonehenge for their Mid-Summer...

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Police and hippies battle at Stonehenge (1988)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Julie Benson reports from the scene at Stonehenge where riot police battle and beat hippies celebrating the Summer Solstice. Vox pop with participants on the violence used by police and police heard through...

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Stonehenge hippies forced out by riot police (1988)

Genre

News report

Police with riot gear force 3000 hippies away from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire during a dawn siege where they were trying to celebrate summer solstice. They have claimed police brutality....

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Dig Those Druids

Date released

26 Jun 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1673

NoS ID

024161

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dig Those Druids. DESCRIPTION: Teenagers came to 3,000-year-old Stonehenge to greet the sun rise on the year’s longest day, and to make a night of it and dig those Druids. Don’t...

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Violence at Stonehenge (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

Phil Edwards reports from Salisbury Plain on violence between police and New Age Travellers during the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. Interview with Chief Constable, Donald Smith; male traveller (not...

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Stonehenge festival clashes (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special

Report on clashes between so-called hippies and riot police at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, following a High Court injunction banning the Mid-Summer festival. Includes coverage of the clashes and interviews with...

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Stonehenge: A Journey Back in Time (1998 Video)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £12.95 (inclusive) - English Heritage

Shows how Stonehenge was built by using reconstructions and re-enactments, together with three-dimensional computer graphics. Presents an overview of the various theories about its origin and purpose....

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News Highlights: Midsummer at Stonehenge

Date released

26 Jun 1958

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2554

NoS ID

075078

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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