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Dan Smith

Date released

1969

Series name

The Pacemakers

Issue no

5

NoS ID

327141

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Dan Smith is the son of a miner from England’s North-East industrial belt. The chaos of industrial reorganisation, decline and depression which he saw there in the thirties lit a fire in his...

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Mystery of the Black Death, The (2005)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Documentary shedding new light on the cause of the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe in the 14th century. Scientists and historians have unearthed new evidence that the pandemic cannot...

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Margaret of Anjou, As Told by a Fight Director (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 273

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week fight director Jared Kirby discusses his new production, Margaret: Shakespeare’s Warrior...

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Runway Homes

Date released

24 Aug 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1994A

NoS ID

027017

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Runway Homes. DESCRIPTION: Croydon Aerodrome, once London’s airport, is now being made into a housing estate. Memories of the past will always remain among the semi-detached, built on...

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Richard III: The King in the Car Park / The Unseen Story (2013)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £9.99

The KING IN THE CAR PARK follows a team of scientists as they investigate and carry out tests on a skeleton found in September 2012 at a Leicester car park believed to be the remains of Richard III, while...

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Story of Wales, The

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £41.99

Six part series presented by BBC News at Ten newsreader Huw Edwards who tells the story of Wales from prehistoric times to the emergence of a modern nation. Beginning with the earliest known human burial in...

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Did Women Act on Stage? (2022 Audio)

aka: Episode 219

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Pamela Brown, who in her new book - The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean...

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US Naval Disaster

Date released

31 May 1954

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1304

NoS ID

019245

Story no

1 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Us Naval Disaster. DESCRIPTION: The worst disaster of American peace-time Naval history, when an explosion rocked the aircraft-carrier Bennington. Ninety-one seamen lost their lives and...

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Thomas Kyd Inspires a Young William Shakespeare to Write Plays (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 252

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week Dr Darren Freebury-Jones (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) talks about his new book,...

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Meet the Diggers

Date released

10 Aug 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1992A

NoS ID

026997

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meet the Diggers. DESCRIPTION: At Bishops Stortford, an enterprising inventor has developed a garden fork that takes the back-ache out of digging. Digging with a different purpose in...

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