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Norman Conquest, The (1982 Video)

Director

Colin Grimshaw

Producer

Kathleen Burk

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Professor H R Loyn looks at the European and English contexts of the Norman conquest, at the organisations and military strengths of the Normans, and at the personalities involved. He describes the battle of...

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Wars of the Roses, The (199 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Traces the political and military course of the period in English history known as Wars of the Roses, from its roots in the early 1400s to the final battle on Bosworth field 80 years later. Includes a...

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Nelson’s Trafalgar (2005)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £14.99

A BBC documentary commemorating the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar on 21st October, 2005. Computer-generated images help to tell the story of the battle and the story of Horatio Nelson, Britain’s most...

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Lest we Forget (1999 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 84 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

A documentary produced in 1947 by the US Signal Corps, which had unparalleled access to combat film shot by Allied cameramen and to Nazi footage captured after the war. It concentrates on the experiences of...

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Civil War: End Game (2002)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £9.99 (CM)

In this course Tristam Hunt looks at what used to be thought of an an English civil war between Roundheads and Cavaliers - and shows that it was in fact a war between three kingdoms and two religions, and...

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It Happened Here (1964 Video)

Director

Kevin Brownlow; Andrew Mollo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £14.99

A semi-professional production that tells of life in England under a supposed German occupation if the Nazis had invaded in 1940 as planned. A chilling reminder of what might have been had Nazism not been...

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David Starkey’s Elizabeth (4 Parts) (2003)

aka: Elizabeth

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 197 minutes), £19.99

Professor David Starkey chronicles the story of Queen Elizabeth I, first broadcast in 4-parts on Channel 4. The series uses a combination of tableaux, testimony from descendants, contemporary documents,...

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Images of the Past, Series (1995)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

Selected photographs, drawings and designs from the collections of the Public Record Office. 1 (1995): Victorian advertising and commercial art - posters and show cards used for advertising the products and...

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