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  1. Age of Charles II, The (1985 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    David Drew evaluates the 25-year reign of Charles II, during which Britain enjoyed a period of peace after the horrows of civil war.

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  2. Audience with Charles Dickens, An (1996 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (125 minutes)

    Simon Callow re-enacts the public readings given by Charles Dickens, reading extracts from five of the most popular Dickens novels. The readings aim for an accurate re-creation of Dickens’s style - costume...

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  3. Fall of Eagles (2004)

    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 690 minutes), £49.99

    The classic1974 BBC dramatisation of the declining years and final collapse of three of the most powerful European dynasties - the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns - between the mid-19th century and the...

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  4. Rhetoric in the Ancient World / Renaissance Rhetoric / Machiavelli... (2000 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Audiocassette. 79 min.

    Side A(i): Lorna Hardwick explains, with examples, how rhetoric in the ancient world denoted a whole system of skills and activities associated with persuasive public speaking; (ii): Letizia Panizza...

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  5. Wales, Green Mountain, Black Mountain (1942 Film)

    Director
    John Eldridge
    Producer
    Donald Taylor
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...

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  6. Pienza: A Renaissance City (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    When Cardinal Eneas Silvio Piccolomini became Pope Pius II, he rebuilt his small home town of Corsignano near Siena, into an ideal Renaissance city renamed Pienza. Today, the city is unchanged in scope or...

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  7. Spanish Court and the Italian Renaissance, The (2001)

    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL), £85.00

    During the time when Christians, Jews and Muslims co-existed in Spain, there was a sharing of customs and ideas which is clearly seen in Seville today. The Alhambra in Granada testifies to the cultural...

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  8. 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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  9. Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (2018)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

    With over a million works of art and decorative objects which have been collected by kings and queens over the last 500 years, the British Monarchy’s Royal Collection is one of the largest art collections...

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  10. Imitation Game, The (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Eyre
    Producer
    Richard Eyre
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £7.99

    Ian McEwan’s play in which the character Cathy, a young middle-class woman, joins the ATS during the Second World War in 1940. The play has been described by Sight & Sound (November 2018), as an excellent...

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