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Another Six English Towns

aka: Alec Clifton-Taylor Presents: Another Six English Towns

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.99

Alec Clifton-Taylor presents this documentary series looking at the history of six English towns: Cirencester in Gloucestershire, Whitby in Yorkshire, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, Devizes in Wiltshire,...

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Decline of British Fiction, The

Subject

English language and literature

Patrica Waugh and Jennifer Hodgson discuss their motivations for writing their article ‘On the Exaggerated Reports of a Decline in British Fiction,' published in The White Review arts journal. In this...

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Billy Bell (1987 Video)

Director

Nick Oldham

Producer

Alan Carter; Mick Catmull

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min.

Billy Bell is a retired locomotive mechanic who used to maintain the trains which carried coal from pit-heads around the Durham Coalfield to Hetton and Lampton Crops, the coal staithes which faced Wearmouth...

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Tinker (1949)

Director

Herbert P. J. Marshall

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £12.99

A drama documentary (1949) about a young gypsy boy who enrols in the training school of the newly nationalised coal industry. The film was shot on location in the Durham mining villages with a...

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Long Time Dying, A (1969 Film)

Producer

Philip Whitehead

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Peter Williams investigates the decision to ‘run down’ and eventually demolish 121 villages in County Durham. Interviews with residents of Witton Park, who are against the decision, and with politicians.

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Hardy: The Woodlanders

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them. Aimed primarily at sixth form and undergraduate students, the cassettes. On...

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Breathing in Science Fiction (2016)

Subject

Literature; Science

From Darth Vader’s laboured respiration, to the divers gasping for air in James Cameron’s The Abyss, the sounds of breathing in science fiction are not only memorable, they also draw attention to the act...

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Bowes Line (1975 Video)

Director

Murray Martin

Producer

Stafford Lindsley

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (24 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

A record of the last working days of the self-acting incline railway built by Stephenson in 1827 to carry coal across the Durham hills to the Tyne. The film concerns the men who worked the line and follows...

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Hardy: Return of the Native, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them. Aimed primarily at sixth form and undergraduate students, the cassettes. On...

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Larkin: Poems

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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