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  1. Drake’s Last Voyage (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Alan Ereira
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    With Drake’s reputation destroyed just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada, the film retraces his final voyage and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture...

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  2. Basque Whalers of Labrador, The (1984 Film)

    Producer
    Paul Cadieux; Thomas Cadieux
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Red Bay, Labrador, in 1978, a Basque whaling ship dating from the 16th century was discovered in water only dozens of feet deep. The discovery meant that Basque fisherman had whaled off the coasts of...

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  3. Titian (2007)

    Director
    Jake Auerbach
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 mins), £7.75

    Documentary. Titian has been called the "first great 20th Century Artist". His fresh interpretations of old stories from mythology, and his constant reinvention of the portrait, have inspired artists for...

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  4. Civilisation (13 Parts) (1969)

    Subject
    History; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £49.99 (DD) £25.99 (BBC)

    Sir Kenneth Clark’s personal view of the development of Western civilisation, concentrating on crucial episodes in France, Germany, England, Italy and America. Against the historical background are the men...

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  5. Integrated Musicianship: 16th Century Style (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Comprises: 1) interactive aurally-based exercises including single line and two-part dictation, stylistic ‘spot mistakes’ exercises, and choosing correct pitch and location for imitation; 2) reviews of...

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  6. Masterpieces of the Hermitage (6 Parts) (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 X 30 min., 1996 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A series on the Hermitage and its art treasures, which represent every school of Western art. 1: A walk through the Hermitage, Catherine the Great’s great palace in St Petersburg, looking at architecture...

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  7. India - The Struggle for Independence/ The Spanish Conquest of Mexico

    Subject
    FE; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.99

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  8. Mother and Child: A Personal View (1974 Film)

    Director
    J M Corder; Judith S Leathart
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Compares and contrasts two pieces of sculpture which at first sight may appear to be entirely different; on the one hand a 16th-century Tyrolese Madonna and Child, now housed in the Victoria and Albert...

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  9. Creation of Childhood, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...

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  10. Ugetsu Monogatari/Oyu-Sama (1951)

    Director
    Kenji Mizoguchi
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (97, 94 minutes), £24.99

    Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and Moon) is based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari. In 16th century Japan, amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro and...

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