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Henry VIII Relics

Date released

27 Feb 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1656

NoS ID

024006

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Henry Viii Relics. DESCRIPTION: Reconstruction work on the Treasury building in London has brought to light some fascinating remains of the old Palace of Whitehall. About 430 years ago,...

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Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Producer

Fred Zinnemann

Subject

Drama; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A film based on Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More’s personal conflict when King Henry VIII asks his support in breaking with Rome and forming the Church of England.

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Charles Ricketts’ Stage Designs (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Date

3 Feb 2015, 10:34

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...

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Henry VIII (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

Two-part television drama depicting the life of King Henry VIII, his tempestuous 38 year reign and his fraught relationships with his many wives. In the first part, Henry is desperate to produce a son and...

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Nonsuch Palace

Date released

30 Nov 1959

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

257

NoS ID

120816

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Students take part in an archaeological excavation to uncover the remains of Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace.

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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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Renaissance Court Architecture in England and Scotland (2 Parts) (2001)

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes total), £85.00

The two sections look at the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey and Renaissance architecture in the Scottish court.

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Castle Topiary

Date released

1 May 1961

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

331

NoS ID

121053

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the Marquess of Northampton’s 16th-century mansion, Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire, and some topiary designs in the gardens. SHOTLIST: LS of castle, in foreground we see...

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Stately Homes of Old England

Date released

22 Dec 1921

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

29

NoS ID

330667

NoS Summary - Scenic views of Hampton Court Palace. British Pathe synopsis: "Erected by Cardinal Wolsey and presented by him to Henry VIII this famous Palace stands on the banks of the Thames." L/S of...

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