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  1. Rationing in Britain (1944 Film)

    Director
    Graham Cutts
    Producer
    Ralph Bond
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An American woman commentator looks at the effects of rationing on a typical family in Britain at the end of the war. The film is interesting not only for the explanation of how the rationing system worked...

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  2. What’s Scarcity? (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

    Links economic theory with real business activity. In three parts: 1) Natural resources. Needs and wants. Economic scarcity. How real estate auctioneers make price a rationing system. Free goods. 2) resource...

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  3. Exposures: Britain Since the 1930s (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Uses more than 300 black-and-white photographs from the ‘The Times’ archive to illustrate major events in Britain between 1930 and 1960, showing life in the Blitz, evacuation, and rationing, and the...

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  4. Keep Calm and Carry on: News Reports from the British Home Front 1939-1945 (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 482 minutes), £19.99

    Compilation of newsreels from the Second World War reporting on the activities on the Home Front. Among the eight hours’ worth of material are items on the evacuation of children, air raids, gas mask...

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  5. Women of Steel (1984 Video)

    Subject
    History; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

    Women munitions workers recall the part they played during World War 2 - the types of work they did in the factories and the harsh conditions there, the constant air raids, food rationing, trade union...

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  6. Mortgage Lenders (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Gillian Holmes
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

    Mortgage lenders got their fingers burnt by dealing too freely in the housing boom of the late 1980s. Now they are much more particular about their clientele, but the pendulum may have swung too far the...

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  7. Total War in Britain (1945 Video)

    Director
    Alexander Shaw
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min.

    The story of the total mobilisation of Britain’s manpower and industrial resources for war, in the four years from Dunkirk to the invasion of western Europe. The film is based on an offical British...

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  8. Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front (2016)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £19.99

    A selection of public information films, propaganda shorts and adverts from the BFI National Archive. Originally shown in cinemas to British audiences during the Second World War, these films served to boost...

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  9. Your Job in Great Britain (2006)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £12.99

    From World War Two onwards, thousands of American service personnel were posted to Great Britain. Before they came, they were shown films designed to familiarise themselves with the country and its...

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  10. Wartime Winter and Summer, A (2006)

    Subject
    Agriculture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £24.95

    When the Second World War broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not...

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