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  1. Changing Face of Slavery, The (1997 Video)

    Director
    Bill Locke
    Producer
    Rose McCausland
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Two 15-minute programmes examining slavery past and present: 1) investigates the trans-Atlantic slave trade, how and why it began and the arguments for and against its abolition; 2) looks at childen working...

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  2. Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners

    Director
    James van der Pool
    Producer
    James van der Pool
    Subject
    History

    When Britain abolished slavery in 1834 the government compensated the slave owners for the loss of their ‘property’ with the equivalent of £17bn. The slaves received nothing. In partnership with...

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  3. Price of Memory, The (2014)

    Director
    Karen Marks Mafundikwa
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 83 minutes), £50.00

    In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamaica for her Golden Jubilee Celebrations. While there she was petitioned by a group of Rastafarians for slavery reparations. For Rastafarians, reparations are linked to...

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  4. Digging for Slaves (1989 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Between the 16th and the 19th centuries, ten million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery in America. Now archaeologists are uncovering evidence of the realities of slave life and discovering the...

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  5. Slavery by Another Name (2012)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), $19.99

    This 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in...

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  6. Slavery Business, The (2 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £14.29

    The full story of Britain’s slave empire has been hidden for almost two centuries. These programmes tell of how slavery was brought to an end by the British people taking on the slave dynasties and winning.

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  7. They Call Us Maids: The Domestic Workers’ Story (2015)

    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 7 minutes), £15.00

    This short animated film tells the story of the thousands of women from extremely poor backgrounds, in countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, South Asia or Africa, who have to find work abroad to...

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  8. Jessica (1996 Video)

    Director
    Bruno Sorrentino
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Exposé of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a Filipino ‘guest worker’ in Saudi Arabia.

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  9. Britain 1750-1900, 1 (1999 Multimedia)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Primary source material and interactive investigations covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1750 to 1900. Investigation topics are: 1) how did the British Empire treat its people? (slavery and...

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  10. Haiti’s Cinderellas (1994 Video)

    Director
    Fröde Pederson
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Focuses on the children of Haiti, three-quaters of them girls, who work as domestic slaves in middle-class homes.

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