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Share Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine (2015)

Subject

History; Information technology; Media studies

Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) discusses a project which he undertook in 2014 with the British Library Labs to find and revive thousands of forgotten Victorian jokes. His ‘Victorian Meme Machine’...

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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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100 Fishponds Road: Eastville Workhouse’s Paupers Remembered (2016)

Director

Ben Pike

Subject

History; Social Studies

In 2015 the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group in Bristol unveiled a memorial for the 4,084 paupers buried in a mass grave at Rosemary Green. In this short video, Dr Roger Ball and a group of local residents...

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Alice in Wonderland (2003)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Jonathan Miller’s 1966 television adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. His vision of the story was a picture of upper-middle-class Victorian society, pompous, irascible, stuffy and addicted to...

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Celebrating Dickens (2012)

Subject

English language and literature

This documentary, presented by Professor John Mee, explores the life and career of Charles Dickens in his various guises: the author, the public performer, the philanthropist, the celebrity, the boy and the...

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Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen (2018)

Subject

Film studies; History

First in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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Ancient World with Bettany Hughes, The: The Minoans (2010)

Subject

Archaeology; History

Historian Bettany Hughes explores Crete, once home to the mighty Minoan civilisation whose sophisticated society changed the whole of Greece. She examines the theories of Victorian archaeologist Arthur Evans...

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Taking London to the World: Robert Paul Shows His Native City in Motion (2019)

Subject

Film studies; History

Second in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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Upper Floors (Revised 1999) (1999)

Director

Keith Jacques; Duncan Marshall

Producer

Keith Jacques; Duncan Marshall

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 26 minutes), £65.00

Describes the various forms of upper floor structure that are likely to be found in both existing and new housing. Explains the evolution of modern practice and highlights precautions necessary to prevent...

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