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Children of the Industrial Revolution (1991 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 12 slides. col., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Examines the social effects of the Industrial Revolution on the North West. Images include early spinning machinery such as Hargreaves’ spinnning jenny, Arkwright’s water frame and Crompton’s mule,...

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Britain in the Thirties: Vol 1 (1991 Video)

aka: Thirties Britain: Volume 1

Subject

History; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 74 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (i+ p&p)

Compilation of five films from the GPO Film Unit that vividly depict society in the 1930s. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

Director

Mort Ransen

Subject

History; Social Studies

In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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Laxton (1975 Film)

Subject

Agriculture; Archaeology; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This film about Laxton in Nottinghamshire, as well as telling the story of the evolution of the village and the continued existence of its common field system, also shows what agricultural life is like in...

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Britain in the Thirties: Vol 2 (1991 Video)

aka: Thirties Britain: Vol 2

Subject

History; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 86 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+ p&p)

Compilation of four films from the GPO Film Unit that vividly depict British society in the 1930s. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Farmstead, The (1982)

Director

Peter Mills

Producer

Stephanie Tennant

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 21 min.

Looks at how the buildings of a farm adapt to the needs of farming in any given period or region and how they provide information about the social and economic life of the surrounding countryside.

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Stranger Than Fiction (1985 Film, Video)

Director

Ian Potts

Producer

Jill Pack

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Reconstruction, through interviews, archive footage and dramatic sequences, of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s which conducted opinion surveys on everything from sex to the Abdication, the Munich...

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Irish University Press Reprint Series of British Parliamentary Papers, The (1975 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Audiocassette. 15 min. Cassette pulsed on Philips N6401 (pulse frequency 1000 Hz plus or minus 20%.; 60 slides. col.

An introduction to the Irish University Press reprint series of British parliamentary papers and their use as source material for 19th-century social history.

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How we Built Britain (2007)

Subject

Architecture; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

A series of six programmes in which David Dimbleby travels around the country to present a social history of the nation through its buildings, revealing a thousand years of change written in architecture.

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Bernard Shaw: The Spoken Word (2006)

Subject

Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £16.00

George Bernard Shaw was a prominent figure in the early years of radio in Britain, and he used the medium to promote some of his more controversial views, making regular broadcasts over a period of almost 25...

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