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Women’s Model Prison in Connecticut

Date released

25 Aug 1938

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

486

NoS ID

058105

Story no

2 / 9

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Beautiful Sentence (2011)

Director

Suzanne Cohen

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Female prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn, writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s prison in Middlesex....

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Taming of the Shrew(S), The (2023 Video)

Director

Rachel Tibbetts; Elizabeth Charlebois

Single camera recording of an adaptation of the Shakespeare play that presents the complex relationship between Katherine and Petruchio as an over-the-top comedy, a tragedy of abuse, and a genuine love...

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3 women escape Holloway Prison (1994)

Genre

Interview

Des Fahy interviews Director-General of the Prison Service Derek Lewis on what is known of the breakout of 3 women, one warned to be dangerous, from Holloway Prison yesterday. Also on the recent sharp...

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Eviction Greenham Common (1983)

Reports on the Greenham Common Peace Camp demonstration. The women react against the eviction order. They decided to stay in front of the gates of the American airbase. But, during the operation, the...

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Holloway: Britain’s biggest women’s prison (1985)

This feature investigates recent reports of horrifying self-mutilation at Britain’s biggest women’s prison, Holloway. Tales have emerged of treatment which has led to women slashing their arms and breasts...

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Prison Fire

Date released

8 Aug 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1627

NoS ID

023721

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Prison Fire. DESCRIPTION: At Nashville, Tennessee, convicts had set the prison on fire to demonstrate sympathy for 20 men on a hunger strike during solitary confinement. A guard fell to...

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Holloway Prison demolition (1977)

Genre

Interview

Di Latham talks to former (unidentified) suffragettes who had been prison inmates at Holloway Prison, during the demolition of the building. Discuss the suffragettes and equal pay and discrimination. Crash...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Curiosity Draws to Dartmoor

Date released

4 Feb 1932

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

139A

NoS ID

003455

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sightseers Go to Dartmoor to See the Mutiny. DESCRIPTION: Motorists ignore official advice and stream into Princetown to gaze on scene of mutiny. SHOTLIST: Curiosity Draws Cars To...

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Curiosity Draws to Dartmoor

Date released

1 Feb 1932

Series name

British Movietone Gazette

Issue no

105A

NoS ID

000781

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sightseers Go to Dartmoor to See the Mutiny. DESCRIPTION: Motorists ignore official advice and stream into Princetown to gaze on scene of mutiny. SHOTLIST: Curiosity Draws Cars To...

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