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  1. How Well we Meant (1983 Video)

    Director
    Sky Fabin; John McLeod
    Producer
    Lou Montgomery Fabin
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    Forty years after the invention of the atomic bomb, the scientists who had worked at Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico got together. They talk about the events that changed history and their thoughts...

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  2. Psychoanalysis and the Image 1 (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Joan Copjec discusses ‘The Invention of Crying: Melodrama and Magnitude’, which explores the relationship between melodrama and certain representations of women within society. Slavoj Zizek discusses...

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  3. Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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  4. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: On the Move (2005)

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank looks at the development of transport during the Industrial Revolution, including the roadbuilding of John Loudon Macadam; James Brindley’s canal network; George Stephenson and the...

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  5. Tim’s Vermeer (2014)

    Director
    Teller
    Producer
    Penn Jillette; Farley Ziegler
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, specifically how Vermeer managed to paint in such a realistic manner 150 years before the invention of...

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  6. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Modern Medicine

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...

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  7. She-Pope (2001)

    Subject
    History; Religious studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    This ‘Everyman’ programme investigates the story of Pope Joan, the 9th century woman, who according to medieval accounts, tricked her way into the papacy and reigned for over two years before being...

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  8. English Garden, The. Part 3: A Temple in the Grove (1725-1755) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    The invention of the sunken fence or ‘ha-ha’ set designers free to harmonise the surrounding countryside with the garden, while loosening up the regularity of previous gardens. Locations include a...

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  9. Writing for Games: Debate (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Audio recording of a discussion held at BAFTA on 28/10/2011. Which techniques can be adapted from film, TV and other media to make characters and stories in video games more engaging, and which need radical...

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  10. Invention of Childhood, The (2005)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 450 minutes), £19.99

    Michael Morpurgo presents a history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present, using a wide range of primary sources. He examines how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down...

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