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When England Was Threatened

Date released

2 Mar 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

340-2

NoS ID

126462

Story no

5 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "The largest mural poster ever painted depicts Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada. Mr Bert Thomas’s painting calls attention to Germany’s threat in 1918." Section of the mural (in...

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Shipwreck (1997 Video)

aka: Wreck, The

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The wreck of a 16th-century ship, possibly the most important marine archaeological find since the ‘Mary Rose’ was discovered in the English Channel off the coast of Alderney. Archaeologists had to...

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2020 Video)

Audiovisual presentation by actor and educator Mark Cabus - made as preparation for a later class - in which he discusses the ways in which Hamlet is a play that can be seen as having special relevance in...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.83: Programme 83 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 83 Programme 83 of a weekly news and sports review called OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK broadcast by independent radio station OCEAN SOUND on 29th May 1988. Presented by CHRIS SKUDDER....

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Golden Hind

Date released

27 Sep 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

509

NoS ID

121565

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Memories of Sir Francis Drake leap to mind when you see this £25,000 replica at anchor in Brixham Harbour. The guns are silent, even harmless-looking by today’s standards. Yet these are...

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Trinidad Valencera, La (1975 Film)

Producer

Paul Johnstone; Ray Sutcliffe

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The ‘Trinidad Valencera’, fourth largest ship of the Spanish Armada, sank off the Donegal coast in 1588. Nothing more was heard of her until 1971 when divers of the Derry Sub-Aqua Club discovered two...

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David Starkey’s Elizabeth (4 Parts) (2003)

aka: Elizabeth

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 197 minutes), £19.99

Professor David Starkey chronicles the story of Queen Elizabeth I, first broadcast in 4-parts on Channel 4. The series uses a combination of tableaux, testimony from descendants, contemporary documents,...

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Drake’s Last Voyage (1996 Video)

Producer

Alan Ereira

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

With Drake’s reputation destroyed just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada, the film retraces his final voyage and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture...

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Time Team Digs - A History of Britain (2005)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 600 minutes), £24.99

A 3-disc set featuring 8 of the digs from this long-running series where the team discover artefacts from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, the Roman Invasion, Roman Britain, the Dark Ages, Norman Britain, Medieval...

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Virgin Queen, The (2005)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 246 minutes), £19.99

A television dramatisation of the long and eventful life of Queen Elizabeth. It explores the full sweep of her life: from her imprisonment as a teenage princess at the hands of her half sister Queen Mary to...

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