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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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Six Centuries of Verse (1984 Video)

Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...

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1066: A Year to Conquer England (2017)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Three part drama-documentary series about the events of 1066 presented by Dan Snow, who paints a picture of the events leading up to the battle of Hastings, events which saw the Anglo-Saxon world swept...

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Normans, The (2010)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Professor Robert Bartlett embarks on an ambitious journey deep into the hearts and minds of a band of warriors who transformed medieval Europe. Bursting with colourful characters and illuminating detail,...

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Gothic Cathedral (1998)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

Discusses the construction and design of Gothic Medieval Cathedrals. Most of our Cathedrals and Abbey Churches were built during the Middle Ages. In the years following the Norman Conquest a huge rebuilding...

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Story of England (2010)

aka: Michael Wood’s Story of England

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £10.92

Six-part BBC series about the story of one village through the whole of English history. Using documents, landscape, buildings, science and archaeology, and with the help of the villagers themselves,...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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English Romanesque Art 1066-1200 (1985 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

Features the art and architecture of the period 1066-1200, based on the 1984 English Romanesque Art exhibition at the Hayward Galley, London. In seven sections: introduction and background to the development...

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Divine Designs (2004)

Subject

Architecture; Art; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

Cambridge art historian Paul Binski visits some of the most exquisite churches and cathedrals in Britain in this series, originally broadcast in 15 20-minute parts, examining the history of English religious...

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