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British Silver On Show

Date released

5 Dec 1957

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

57/98

NoS ID

107931

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

In Rome, the British Ambassador opens a display of British antique silver dating from 1660 to 1830.

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English Garden, The. Part 1: A Tapestry of Herbs and Roses (To 1660) (1980 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Biology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

The story of great gardens in England and Wales from Roman times to the 1980s. This programme opens with Sir John Gielgud in the Jubilee Gardens, London, remarking that the English garden often reflected the...

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Six Centuries of Verse (1984 Video)

Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...

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Story for Sunday: two episodes: Penny Dreams; The Conversation - nd [1988-1989]

Story for Sunday: two episodes: Author: Eileen O Neil; no info on readers. Track 1- Penny Dreams - transmitted on 04-06-1989. Track 2- The Conversation - transmitted on 10-07-1988 and 12-02-1989. The Library...

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This Sceptred Isle (1999 Audio)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 20 audiocassettes. 1740 min. 28 Compact discs. 1740 min., 2001 sale: £10.99 (+p&p) each part 2001 sale: £50.00 (+p&p) 20th century subset on cassette 2001 sale: £75.00 (+p&p) 20th century subset on CD 2001 sale: £89.95 (+p&p) complete set on cassette 2001 sale: £150.00 (+p&p) complete set on CD

An account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the end of the 20th century, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee. Features extracts from Winston Churchill’s ‘A history of...

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English Garden, The. Part 2: A Pattern for Pleasure (1660-1725) (1980 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Biology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

Looks at the influence of Dutch, French and Italian styles after the Restoration. Walls of trees and hedges became the vogue as did the use of statues and terracing. There was much interest in exotic plants...

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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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Diego Velazquez: The Painter of Painters (2008)

Director

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £17.99

This documentary traces the career of Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), the court painter and favourite of the Spanish King Phillip IV, who rose to prominence as one of the foremost portrait painters in Europe....

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 3 (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

David Starkey’s third series examining the relationship of the English Monarchy with the people, laws, and land throughout history. Programme 1. THE RETURN OF THE KING. Starting in 1660 with the return...

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