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Digging for History (1974 Video)

Producer

J S Murray

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 32 min.

One summer of rescue archaeology in York: the excavation work on five Roman and medieval sites during the digging season of 1973. The locations are the Cattle Market, the Ebor Brewery, the Bedern,...

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Bronte Ways Part 2: Haworth to Gawthorpe Hall (2004)

Subject

Geography; History; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £12.99

This programme takes up the trail where Part 1 left off, pausing in Haworth to explore some significant locations, such as the Black Bull Inn, the apothecary and the churchyard, before climbing to Top...

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Is Your Brain Really Necessary? (1982 Film, Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Three people are taken to Copenhagen, where the latest techniques of scanning brought to light extraordinary facts about their brains, by showing which areas were being used at a particular time. Sharon, a...

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Nuclear Wasteland, The (1988 Video)

Producer

James Cutler

Subject

Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

In the wake of the disaster at Chernobyl, Britain’s own nuclear industry is under renewed examination. The country’s secret weapons factories are scrutinised and controversial findings about the civil...

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Angel is Missing (1990 Video)

aka: Peru: Angel is Missing

Director

Nick Gray

Producer

Nick Gray

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) IBT

With the restoration of democracy in Peru in 1980, a civil war raged between the military and the ‘Sendera Luminoso’ (Shining Path) guerrillas. Up to 15,000 Peruvians were killed and 10,000 kidnapped and...

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World War I (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An archive of World War 1 material with commentary, presented in a series of documented case studies covering the chronology of the war (orogins, Eastern Europe, the war at sea and in the air, the home...

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Awakenings (1974 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min.

A unique record record of the ‘awakening’ of patients from 40 years of hopeless, silent ‘sleep’ to a vivid, full enjoyment of life, at least for a short period. The patients had been victims of the...

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Kes (1970)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 106 minutes), £14.99

Ken Loach’s landmark film tells the story of Billy Caspar (played by David Bradley) - a working-class teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining community. Bullied at home and picked on and ridiculed at...

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Town (2011)

Subject

Archaeology; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 60 minutes), £17.00

Nicholas Crane visits four British towns, each with their own unique personality and a history from the Vikings to hundreds of homes equipped with solar panels.: Scarborough, a survivor perched on the edge...

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Battle of Orgreave, The (2006)

Director

Mike Figgis

Subject

Art; Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 63 minutes), £19.99

The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...

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