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  1. 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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  2. Chardin and the Still Life (1993 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Chardin became known as the master of the still life in 18th-century France. This film discusses the hierarchy of genres in the 18th century, among which the still life was the lowest category. Shows...

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  3. EncyclopÉdie, The (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The ‘Encyclopédie’ is probably one of the greatest single enterprises of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, it was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Giles...

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  4. Magic Flute, The (1993 Video)

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

    An extract from a staged production of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, recorded live at the 18th-century Drottningholm Opera House in Sweden. It consists of the whole of the finale of Act 1, plus a brief...

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  5. Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever (1982)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 47 minutes), £12.99

    Kenneth Griffith tells the story of Thomas Paine, an 18th century Sussex customs officer who played a central role in both the American and French revolutions. Son of a Norfolk corset maker he wrote the...

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  6. Poetry and Landscape (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Art; English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at 18th-century landscape paintings and at poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as providing a metaphor for...

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  7. Humanity and the Scaffold (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Alison Tucker; Amanda Willett
    Subject
    History; Law
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines punishment in the 18th century by comparing the systems used in England with those found in France at this time, illustrated using the examples of the hanging of Dick Turpin near York and the...

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  8. Scotland in the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....

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  9. Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...

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  10. Nature Display’d (1993 Video)

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

    Studies the complex associations made in the 18th century between the concepts of Woman and Nature, and how these were depicted in art and in sciences. Looks at women in relation to botany, health, charity...

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