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Protestant Reformation, The (1996 Video)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

In 1517 Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, signalling the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Filmed on location in Europe, the programme studies the...

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Shakespeare’s Restless World: Communion and Conscience (2012 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Restless World

Producer

Paul Kobrak

Second of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...

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Zwingli and Calvin (1994)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £14.99

This programme covers the 16th century Swiss Reformation, its key centres of Zurich and Geneva, and its leaders, Zwingli and Calvin—two theologians who led tumultuous lives. Zwingli questioned major...

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Keeping the Faith (1998 Video)

Director

Frances Berrigan

Producer

Philippa Robinson

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Portrait of English Catholic families whose faith dates back to before the Reformation and who retained their loyaly to Rome despite imprisonment, persecution and financial deprivation. The programme is an...

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Making of the United Kingdom, The: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples 1500-1750 (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

A collection of source material covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1500 to 1750. Structured around 14 investigations into key questions of political and religions change, such as the effects of...

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Scots Detective, The (2000)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 20 minutes), £19.99

Scotland is laden with myths about its past - these five 20-minute programmes will help students of Scottish history to discover some of the facts. The Scots Detective, played by James MacPherson,...

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Luther (2005)

Director

Guy Green

Subject

Drama; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 107 minutes), £19.99

This adaptation of John Osborne’s LUTHER was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold...

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History of Christianity, A (2009)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.46

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - a leading historian and Professor of History of the Church and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a...

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Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Paper Print Collection (1991 Video)

Early films from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, shown in their entirety. Titles are ‘The drunkard’s reformation’ (March 1909), made by the American Motoscope...

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Dissolution of the Monasteries, The (1986 Video)

Producer

Ian Thompson

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Covers: England’s monastic past; the religious orders on the eve of the Reformation; the royal attack; how and why it succeeded; reactions, aftermath and survival. Presented by Professor J J Scarisbrick.

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