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Rumours at the Miners’ Fortnight (1983 Video)

Subject

History; Sociology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

South Wales miners and their families on their annual holiday in Trecco Bay discuss their history, the General Election of 1983, the forecast pit closures, the Falklands War, and the future and past of South...

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Date

17 Nov 2016, 14:53

Author

Sarah Allen

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Abbey School Aberystwyth University Anglia Ruskin University Arts University Bournemouth Aston University Ayrshire College Bangor University Bath Spa University College Birkbeck,...

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Surviving Aberfan (2008)

Director

Steve Humphries

Subject

History; Social Studies

Documentary about the Aberfan disaster in south Wales in October 1966. The people of Aberfan tell their stories of tragic loss, miraculous survival and heroic rescue. [60 minutes]

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Fluvial Environments (1988 Video)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the different river systems that drain the North American continent and Great Britain today and in the distant geological past. In a journey through Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Texas and...

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Coal House, The (2008)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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So That You Can Live (1981)

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 85 minutes), £8.00

Cinema Action documentary filmed over five years showing the impact on one family living in a South Wales valley community of developments in the national and global political economy which result in local...

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Wallace in Wales (1997 Video)

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Some of Charles Darwin’s fame for the discovery of evolutionary theory is these days shared with fellow scientist Alfred Russel Wallace. Traces his life in South Wales and the Welsh borders, where Wallace...

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Remember Aberfan (1996 Video)

Producer

Catrine Clay

Subject

History

Distribution

Out of Distribution, 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Visits the small minig village of Aberfan in South Wales where, on 21 October 1966, the coal tip above the village collapsed and slid down the hillside, killing over 140 people, many of them children from...

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Memories of Hoover (1990 Video)

aka: Hoover Employees - Wales

Director

Carolyn Jacobs

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 371 min.

The Hoover factory, which moved to the Merthry Valley in south Wales in 1948, faces closure. Interviews with some of the early workers recall memories of those early days. Scenes show the manufacture of...

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Business in the Economy (1997 Video)

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (30 min), £120 + VAT + p&p

Looks at the economy and the role of business and government, using case studies from Cardiff and the South Wales valleys to illustrate types of economic activity, the market economy, historical change,...

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