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Let the Good Work Go On!

Date released

17 Oct 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/83

NoS ID

090188

Story no

2 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Lady Patricia Ramsay opens another block of 35 flats for working classes - 160 have been built in last 6 years - on what was once one of London’s worst slums.

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Death of the Working Classes (1988 Video)

Producer

Hilary Henson

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates the theories behind statistics which reveal that death has a class bias, with the working classes at greater risk. The NHS has made no difference to the health gap between the social classes and...

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aka: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Act I Scene 2

Series

Chop Bard

Producer

Shannon Sneedse

This episode of "Chop Bard" focuses on the Rude Mechanicals - the "uncultured, working-class labourers in act 1, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".

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Durham Miners Gala (1987)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report covering speeches at the Durham Coal Miners Gala. Tony Benn calling for the Labour Party to concentrate on its real work of defeating Margaret Thatcher at the next election. Arthur Scargill on a...

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Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection

Date

28 May 2014, 12:18

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection by Vanessa Toulmin (BFI, 2006), 310 pages, ISBN: 1-84457-144-0 (hardback), £60; ISBN: 1-84457-145-9 (paperback), £17.99 About the...

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Slums Are a Disgrace (The Prince of Wales)

Date released

14 Dec 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/100

NoS ID

091008

Story no

6 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Dame Sybil Thorndike lays foundation stone of model flats for working classes.

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Miss Ishbel Macdonald

Date released

28 Apr 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/34

NoS ID

089844

Story no

1 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Opens cottages, ‘real homes’, for the working classes, built under auspices of the Church Army.

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Working Class Britain: Underclass to Hero, How the Working Class Has Been Portrayed (1959)

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

A collection of extracts and complete BBC radio and television programmes illustrating the roots of British working class traditions, real working class heroes, and how lives and attitudes have changed over...

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Sweep Away All Slums

Date released

16 Jan 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/5

NoS ID

090372

Story no

2 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Princess Alice lays foundation stone of another block of flats for working classes - where once was one of London’s worst slums.

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Holidays by the Sea (1987 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Charts the uneven development of Blackpool through the 19th century, from a small genteel town into the first and largest resort for the industrial working class. With the advent of railway came day...

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