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To Engineer is Human1 (1987 Video)

Producer

Alex Nisbett

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how engineeering science is subject to human limitations. Professor Henry Petroski contends that structures can fail in ways that have been dismissed as virtually impossible. Uses footage of some of...

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Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547 (2003)

aka: Glory of Gothic, The

Subject

Architecture; Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

An introduction to the art of late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance. This is the age of the Hundred Years’ War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV...

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Spinoza: The Apostle of Reason (1994 Video)

Director

Christopher Spencer

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Drama; Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in 16th-century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal. He lived in an age of turmoil, when the Dutch Republic and the English...

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Cinema of Transgression (1979 Video)

Director

Holly Adams; Beth B; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tessa Hughes-Freeland; M Henry Jones; Richard Kern; Jon Moritsugu; Kembra Pfahler; Jeri Cain Rossi; Tommy Turner; David Wojnarowicz; Nick Zedd

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 147 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

Compilation of films made by avant-garde film-makers and artists based in the Lower East Side of New York City between 1979 and 1993 They aimed to transform values by breaking all taboos of cinematic...

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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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Joseph Andrews (1977)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 99 mins), $19.99

1977 film adaptation of Fielding’s novel with Peter Firth in the title role.

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Albert Memorial, The (2 Parts) (1991 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 2 x 24 slides., 2000 sale: £40.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) both sets

2: Slides of all the major free-standing statues on the Albert Memorial, as well as reliefs and mosaic work, featuring the sculptures of H H Armstead, Henry Weekes, John Lawlor, John Bell and William Theed.

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As Above So Below (1991 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Special loan only, Videocassette. VHS. silent. col. 8 min.

A silent record of Glen Onwin’s installations at the Square Chapel, Halifax.

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Shakespeare Audiotapes, Series

The pre-recorded programmes in this series combine academic criticism and actors’ rehearsals of key scenes and speeches. The scenes rehearsed on the second side of the tapes are directed by John Russell...

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Fulgens and Lucres, By Henry Medwall (1985 Video)

Director

Med Twycross

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 1993 sale: £15

A shortened version for television of ‘the earliest romantic comedy in English’(c.1490). Set in the Ancient Rome of romance, it tells how Lucres, the heroine, sets her two suitors, a rich aristocrat and...

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