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  1. Victorian Ways of Death (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Visits cemeteries in Manchester, London and the Buckinghamshire countryside, to point out the evidence they provide of Victorian attitudes to death and burial. An examination of memorials, including some in...

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  2. Voices of Victorian Britain (1996 Video)

    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Presents a picture of Victorian London, based on a research conducted by the Victorian journalist and founder of ‘Punch’ Henry Mayhew. He accurately transcribed interviews with a wide range of working...

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  3. Film in Victorian Britain (1996 Video)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £19.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    A video-based package for teaching both Media and the Victorian Britain topic in KS2 history. The video is a compilation of 33 short films made between 1896 and 1905. An emphasis on actuality footage...

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  4. Victorian Nude, The (2002)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £12.99

    Filmed at Tate Britain, curator Alison Smith explores the contradictions of Victorian attitudes to the nude. She considers the aspirations of artists who sought to create a specifically English idea of the...

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  5. Victorian Yellowback Books (1998 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, 30 slides. col., 2000 sale: £32.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Illustrates the development of the famous series of Victorian ‘yellowback’ books popular on railway bookstalls in the 1850s and 1860s, which, technically, were an important new artistic venture at the...

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  6. Victorian Summer, A (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (180 minutes), £19.95

    Paul Heiney looks at the Victorian age of farming, period machinery and traditional livestock breeds. He follows three crops - oats, potatoes and grass, from sowing to harvest, re-creating the days of...

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  7. Victorian Periodicals Project, The (1996 Multimedia)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A hypermedia program concerning Victorian periodicals and the illustrative material they use, that also addresses social and gender issues. Intended as a resource within lecture courses and for student...

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  8. Leathart Collection, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the interets of the Victorian collector James Leathart, focusing on individual works such as Holman Hunt’s ‘The Hireling Shepherd’. Also considers aspects of Leathart’s economic and artistic...

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  9. Rural Life 1: Image and Reality (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at three Victorian villages - Old Warden and Steppingley in Bedfordshire and Wortham in Suffolk. The Bedfordshire villages are the product of improvements made by wealthy landowners and represent...

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  10. Testimony: Telling the Stories of Those Who Survived the Old Victorian Asylums (2000 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    Excerpts from over 50 interviews present a picture of patients’ lives from admission to discharge in the old Victorian asylums, which, with the advent of community care, have closed down. The interviews...

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