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  1. Potter’s Art, The (1970 Film)

    Director
    Derek Fairhead
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot in Bernard Leach’s home and studio in St. Ives, Cornwall. The artist discusses the influence of his apprenticeship in Japan and his desire to bridge the differences between East and West. He...

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  2. Duncan Douglas, Savile Row Tailor (1989 Video)

    Director
    J Melland
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 207 min.

    Interview with Duncan Douglas, a Savile Row tailor who came from Grenada and worked his apprenticeship for a number of tailors before setting up on his own. Shows the processes involved in making a suit.

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  3. Sounds from the Park (2014)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Audio (Download, 28 minutes)

    Radio show which explores the history and traditions of Britain’s last great open air oratory site, the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Speakers, hecklers and spectators of diverse backgrounds,...

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  4. Great Expectations Video Pack (1999 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

    Video-based teaching package based on the 1999 BBC adaptation of ‘Great Expectations’, which, in discussing the film, also studies Dickens himself, the nature of adaptation and the original novel. Also...

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  5. Creation of Childhood, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...

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  6. Hand Rolling of Steel (1982)

    Director
    W.K.V. Gale
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £12.00

    A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...

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  7. Face Values. Part 5: Moving Through Life (1978 Film)

    Director
    David Cordingley
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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