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  1. From Mining the Web to Inventing the New Sciences Underlying the Internet (2007)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Video recording of a lecture given by Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions, at the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in...

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  2. Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

    Subject
    History

    This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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  3. Surviving Aberfan (2008)

    Director
    Steve Humphries
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Documentary about the Aberfan disaster in south Wales in October 1966. The people of Aberfan tell their stories of tragic loss, miraculous survival and heroic rescue. [60 minutes]

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  4. Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    A film poem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, performed by Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon. [60 minutes]

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  5. Mining & Monetizing Your Digital Archives (2011)

    Subject
    Business studies; Librarianship; Media studies

    Webcast of a discussion on making your digital archive profitable and accessible today and in the future. With Alex Grossman, CEO from Active Storage; Chief Technology Officer, Mark Lemmons from Though...

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  6. European Volunteer Workers (2013)

    Producer
    Mark Whitaker
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the ‘essential’ industries of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, turned to the millions of East Europeans living in...

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  7. Double Vision: Boxing for Hartlepool (1987)

    Subject
    Sociology; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £15.00 (+p&p)

    George Bowes was a professional boxer whose career spanned the economic boom years of the late fifties and sixties. He was also a face worker at Blackhall colliery in Co. Durham during the period of...

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  8. Accident Reduction Program/Post Accident Remedies, Technical Support

    Subject
    Engineering; Health & safety

    This series consists of five videos offering ways to prevent accidents in mines before they happen. Technical Support conducts field investigations, laboratory studies, and analyses to resolve specific...

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  9. Miners’ Strike, The: Twenty Years on (2009)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    The Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The 25th anniversary re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the...

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