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Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

Subject

History; Military Science

Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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Timon of Athens (1993 Video)

Director

Michael Langham

Videorecording of the play performed by the National Actors Theatre. Music adapted by Stanley Silverman and directed for stage by Michael Langham and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker....

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Coleridge biography wins Whitbread Book of the Year (1990)

Genre

Biography; Interview; News report; Speech

Camilla Affleck reports on Richard Holmes’s biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge: Early Visions - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes Holmes reading from his book and talking...

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Farmer on war and intimidation of workers in Rhodesia (1978)

Genre

Interview

Rhodesian tobacco farmer Richard Holmes, discusses the war and the intimidation of farm workers in the country. Interview covers the location of land mines around the farm and the fact that farm workers are...

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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (2003)

Producer

Harvey Lilley; Georgina Harvey; Colin Thomas

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

In this four part series, historian Richard Holmes gives a revisionist account of what he calls America’s first civil war. The popular view is that the War of Independence was the American people’s...

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Western Front, The (1999 Video)

Director

Steven Clarke; Keith Sheather

Producer

Mark Fielder

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 180 min., 2000 sale: £17.99 (inclusive)

Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...

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Comedy of Errors, The (1983 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

James Cellan Jones

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Television production with Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey doubling the roles of Antipholus and Dromio respectively. The ‘commedia dell arte style is underscored by the integration of mimes into the play.

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