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  1. David Starkey - Monarchy Series 3 (2006)

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

    David Starkey’s third series examining the relationship of the English Monarchy with the people, laws, and land throughout history. Programme 1. THE RETURN OF THE KING. Starting in 1660 with the return...

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  2. Algeria: Women at War (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Parminder Vir
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Looks at the key role Algerian women played in the algerian War of Independence from the French some 30 years ago. Veteran fighters talk about their work in the revolution, many for the first time, and their...

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  3. Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Harold Young
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film version of the novel by Baroness Orczy set in the French Revolution. At the end of the film, the Scarlet Pimpernel, when he encounters his arch-rival Blakeney, quotes part of John of Gaunt’s...

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  4. Impressionists, The

    Director
    Phil Grabsky; Ali Ray
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 192 minutes), £40.00

    This series, presented by Tim Marlow, looks at the work of eight painters: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Marlow considers the movement’s aesthetic revolution...

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  5. Filthy Cities (2011)

    Producer
    Sam Starbuck
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Presenter Dan Snow traces the evolution of three of the world’s major cities, from the perspective of their unhygienic pasts, looking at how Paris, London and New York have evolved into paradigms of the...

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  6. Enlightenment, The: Reason and Progress (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Alison Tucker
    Subject
    Philosophy; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the Enlightenment with specific reference to how the belief in universal reason led to the origins of the studies we now call the social sciences. It looks at how the ‘Philosophes’ established a...

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  7. World Revolutions for Students, Series (7 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes each), £158 (set) £32.00 (each)

    This series of 7 programmes examines the underlying causes and dramatic effects associated with revolutions throughout world history. It explores the revolutionary philosophies and strategies of world...

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  8. Around 1800 (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    A compilation of three 30-minute videos from the Palettes series devoted to great works of painting history. The secrets of the images are revealed using video animation techniques. The three paintings on...

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  9. Tale of Two Cities, A (1990)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £9.99

    A film version of the novel by Charles Dickens about romance and intrigue during the French Revolution.

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  10. Building the Perfect Beast (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    Presents a wide range of views about the importance and possible meaning of the Creature in Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’. Identifies the mythic status that the work seems to have acquired in...

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