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1066 - And All This

Date released

20 Oct 1966

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1950A

NoS ID

026629

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 1066 - and All This. DESCRIPTION: Students re-enact the Battle of Hastings on a site very close to the actual battle field. And the result is as you’d expect, victory for the Normans....

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Digging for Britain (2011)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

A four-part television series in which Dr Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations around the country. Each programme deals with sites...

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Story of English, The (1998 Video)

Producer

Pater Dale; Vivian Ducat

1: The diversity of ‘varieties’ of English in use throughout the world including public school/Oxbridge, post-colonial in India and Africa, feminist, high-tech, American, Pacific Basin, gay, academic....

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Chronicle: A Glimpse of TV Heaven

Date

21 Jun 2017, 17:08

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Commissioned by the BBC in 1966, Chronicle was a groundbreaking archaeological series that would be on the air for the next twenty-five years. Don Henson, University of York, looks at the history and...

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King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons (2013)

Subject

History

Michael Wood explains the importance of King Alfred and his descendants daughter Aethelflaed and grandson Aethelstan, who became the first king of a united England. 3 x 59 minutes episodes.

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Alfred the Great: King of the Anglo-Saxons (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £33.99

Few kings in English history deserve the epithet "great" more than Alfred, King of Wessex. In an age and country blighted by Viking invasions, Alfred inflicted repeated defeats upon the Norsemen and set...

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Battle of Hastings, The (2004)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £10.99

An analysis of the Norman victory at Hastings in 1066 which put an end not only to the English King Harold but also to the Anglo-Saxon way of life. The programme uses 3-D computer mapping and imagery from...

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Sutton Hoo Helmet, The (2006)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 30 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about the Sutton Hoo helmet and the other treasures which were found when the Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated near Woodbridge in Suffolk on the eve of World War II. The film includes...

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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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