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  1. Fish ‘N’ Ships: Volume 2 (1987 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 43 min., 1995 sale: £35.25 (inclusive)

    Three films showing the the fishing industry in Grimsby and Hull during its heyday in the half century up to the 1970s. Part 1: Follows a giant freezer trawler, one of the then mighty Ross fleet from...

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  2. William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

    The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...

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  3. Queen of Spades, The (1948)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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  4. Canterbury Tales, The (2005)

    Director
    Marc Munden; John McKay; Julian Jarrold; Andy De Emmony
    Producer
    Kate Bartlett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £26 (IMC); £1,170 (BBC Active)

    Six part drama series, consisting of retellings of six of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, updated for a modern audience and given a contemporary setting. Starring Julie Walters, James Nesbit, Billie...

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  5. Epic of Everest, The (2014)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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  6. Sinking of the Belgrano, The (2004)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History; Military Science; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £12.99

    An investigation into the sinking of the Argentinian battleship General Belgrano which was torpedoed by a British submarine during the Falklands War of 1982. Controversy still surrounds the incident since it...

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  7. Wreck Detectives (2005)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 376 minutes), £19.99

    This series of 8 programmes investigates some of the most intriguing shipwrecks that lie off the coast of Britain. Using marine archaeology, oceanography, historical research and the latest technology, the...

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  8. Great White Silence, The (1924)

    Director
    Herbert G Ponting
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £19.99

    Henry Ponting’s extraordinary official record of Captain Scott’s legendary final expedition to the South Pole, fully restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner,...

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  9. Famous Friends (2001)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 92 min), £15.99 inclusive

    A compilation of six films made by British Transport Films between 1952 and 1962. Volume 6 in the series.

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  10. Sporting Legends (3 Parts) (2008)

    Subject
    Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD), £9.99 each; £25.99 set

    A series of three CDs recorded in 1999, in which Cliff Morgan talks to sporting personalities from the past about their life and sporting career. Vol 1 - Mary Peters and Cliff Morgan (discussed with Ian...

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