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Making of the United Kingdom, The: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples 1500-1750 (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A collection of source material covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1500 to 1750. Structured around 14 investigations into key questions of political and religions change, such as the effects of...

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Art in the Making: Rembrandt (1990 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale: £25.00 (inclusive) set of 3 ‘Art in the Making’ titles

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Andromaque: Act IV Scene 5 (1981 Video)

Subject

Drama; French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

Act IV Scene 5 of Racine’s play, performed in three different styles by the same actress.

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Pearl (1978 Radio)

Series

Monday Play, The

Producer

Alfred Bradley

Radio play written by John Arden. Set in the years leading to the English Civil War it concerns a 17th-century playwright in the tradition of Shakespeare, Backhouse (David Calder),and a mysterious woman...

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Secrets and Whispers (2000 Radio)

Series

Lend Me Your Ears

Producer

Kate McAll

Radio broadcast. Series in which Fiona Shaw tries to recreate the sounds of England during Shakespeare’s time. Princes and ambassadors may expect a private audience at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but...

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English Landscape Garden, The (1987 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Architecture; Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...

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Civil War, The: Complete Series (2002)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £24.99

The CIVIL WAR is a two disc set, comprising all four episodes of the Open University/BBC series: ‘The Breakdown, ‘Taking Sides’, ‘Total War’ and ‘End Game’. The programmes combine to tell the...

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Cosmology Before Newton (1980 Video)

Producer

David Hoyle

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

Explains the background to Newton’s ‘Principia’ of 1687 and looks at the developments in cosmological science during the 17th century. Following the observational and mathematical work of Copernicus,...

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400 Years of the Telescope (2009)

Director

Kris Koenig

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

A documentary tracing the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope. The film begins in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his...

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Painting the World: Neil Macgregor at the National Gallery (199 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min., 1999 sale £15.00 (inclusive)

Four half-hour programmes in which National Gallery director Neil MacGregor takes a particular painting and through it explores the ideas and beliefs shared by Europeans at the period in which it was made....

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