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Jisc and Ithaka S+R launch “Sustaining Our Digital Future" report

Date

30 Jan 2013, 14:58

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

Today Jisc and Ithaka S+R are launching Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content (4.5 MB PDF, click here to download), a new report aimed at helping digital projects to...

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Science in Focus: Big Questions

aka: The Nature of Scientific Enquiry

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 5 x 20 minutes), £45.00

Five programmes presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Each focuses on the life and works of key scientific figures. How did they do it? What did they owe to their contemporaries? Why were their ideas so often...

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Full Frontal Nerdity (2015)

Subject

Mathematics; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 190 minutes), £11.93

A recording of the first live tour of the Festival of The Spoken Nerd, a show by scientists turn comedians Matt Parker, Helen Arney and Steve Mould. The show explains and demonstrates scientific and...

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Everyday Lives (1994 Video)

Producer

Steve Humphries

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 35 min., 1997 sale: £39.99 (inclusive)

Uses oral history testimonies and archive footage to illustrate aspects of the social history of Britain around the years of World War 2. The material has been selected to illustrate the six themes: girls’...

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Change for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s, (1994 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Video-based teaching pack looking at British life in the 1930s through archive film, textual data and personal accounts. Contains contemporary archive footage from the GPO Film Unit. The five units cover...

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Energy Alternative, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £19.99 (+VAT +p&p)

Video-based pack looking at energy from the standpoint of a need for change. Begins with some predictions of future world energy consumption and their impossible consequences and goes on to explore...

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Europe of the Regions?, A (1991 Video)

Producer

Jack Leathem

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the way in which the expansion of the European Community is reshaping political processes. New relationships are developing between Europe and particular cities and regions. The programme features...

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Esa DVD Lesson Series

aka: European Space Agency Lesson Series

Subject

Space science

Four video lessons produced by the European Space Agency. The lessons focus on explaining basic scientific concepts and showing the difference between being on Earth and in space. All videos are now...

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Media Screen Round-up December 2016

Date

17 Jan 2017, 10:18

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

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The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. Zoë Shacklock's article 'On Not...

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Richard Deacon (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

Richard Deacon is widely regarded as one of the principal British sculptors, best known for his innovative use of open form and his interest in materials and their manipulation. For more than two decades,...

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