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  1. Science and the English Enlightenment (1982 Video)

    Director
    Colin Grimshaw
    Producer
    Denis Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

    Given that Newtonian science is usually identified with the culture of the Enlightenment of the 18th century, Dr Simon Schaffer considers the relationship between the way of life of the English élite and...

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  2. Late Show, The (2 December 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The fourth, concluding, programme for Science Week on the theme of how science is affecting the way we understand our culture.

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  3. Late Show, The (1 December 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The third of four programmes for Science Week. The regular review of cultural highlights of the month, with a scientific theme.

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  4. Big History (2014)

    Subject
    History; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 435 minutes), £24.99

    American documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston which attempts to show how major events or resources have had an effect on the progress of civilisation.

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  5. Culture Clash. Part 1: Form and Formula (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    An intellectually stimulating and visually extravagant exploration not just of the ‘two cultures’ debate in modern Britain, but of changing images of science and scientists in history; the place of...

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  6. Late Show, The 2 (29 November 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The first of four programmes for Science Week looks at space exploration.

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  7. Story of Science, The (2010)

    Subject
    History; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.99

    In this six-part series Michael Mosley tells the story of the forces that came together to create scientific knowledge; the practical business of making instruments and machines; the great forces of history...

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  8. Prizewinners, The: Interview with John Kendrew (1962 Video)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr John Kendrew shows how, even at the time of the Snow-Leavis ‘two cultures’ debate, some Cambridge scientists were managing effortlessly to transcend the science-arts divide...

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  9. Founding of the Royal Society, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Barker
    Subject
    Mathematics; Science
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Describes the various scientific groups that began to form in 17th-century England: at Gresham College, London, in 1645 and in Oxford in 1657, culminating with the founding of the Royal Society in 1660....

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  10. Swedish Science in the Eighteenth Century (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at why Sweden became a great scientific nation in the 18th century. She had lost her status as a great political power, and hopes were placed in science to rebuild her economy. Important to this was...

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