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  1. The Evolution of a "Show Girl"

    Date released
    12 Aug 1926
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    271
    NoS ID
    331480
    Story no
    5 / 8

    NoS Summary - how girls get to be one of "Cochran’s Young Ladies". British Pathe synopsis: "Footlights! Every girl in the world as some time or another has imagined herself looking over them at a...

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  2. Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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  3. Scramble for Africa, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Why partition of Africa occured when it did and so rapidly; ‘informal’ versus ‘formal’ trade, influence and rule; imperialism; Africa’s colonial legacy. Presented by Dr I R Smith.

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  4. Unification of Germany, The (1986 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Coves: the myth and reality of Bismarck’s role; the economic and diplomatic pre-conditions; unity achieved under Prussia; consequences for Germany and Europe. Presented by Dr R J V Lenman.

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  5. Mussolini and Italian Fascism (1991 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers Mussolini’s origins and rise to power, the nature of Fascism; Mussolini as supreme opportunist; illusions and delusions; the new imperialism; nemesis. Presented by Professor J A Davis with Danis...

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  6. Dissolution of the Monasteries, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: England’s monastic past; the religious orders on the eve of the Reformation; the royal attack; how and why it succeeded; reactions, aftermath and survival. Presented by Professor J J Scarisbrick.

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  7. Staging Greek Tragedy: Insights on Sites (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £38.00 (inc. p&p +VAT)

    An analysis and reconstruction of the staging of ‘Oresteia’ of Aeschylus. The conventions of tragedy in performance and the architecture of the Greek theatre are explained using the ancient theatre at...

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  8. English Civil War, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: why and how the war broke out; to what extent it was ‘limited’ and why it lasted so long; why the king lost; consequences. Presented by Dr R Clifton.

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  9. French Revolution, The (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the causes and course of the French revolution of 1789-93. Covers: the high hopes of 1789 - the Declaration of the Rights of Man; war, counter-revolution and social conflict; the place of the...

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  10. Revolution of 1688, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: James II and his subjects; motives of William and the English conspirators; risks and uncertainties, luck and planning, reasons for the success; the outcome - how ‘glorious’? Presented by Dr R...

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