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Five per Cent and Philanthropy (1975 Film)

Director

Nigel E Heverly; Jennifer Tann

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at the state of London’s housing in the early to mid-19th century and traces the efforts of Victorian philanthropists to provide improved dwellings. Housing was provided by Charitable Trusts, by City...

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When Bankers Were Good (2011)

Subject

Economics; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.00

Documentary. Ian Hislop takes a look at attitudes to money and morality when the City of London first became the world’s financial capital. Victorian bankers achieved wealth on a scale never envisaged by...

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Victorian Poets, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £16.90

The work of Tennyson, Browning and Hopkins provides the basis for this introduction to the work of the Victoria poets. Featuring readings of the great works of this period, plus atmospheric filmed...

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Way we Used to Live, The (2 Parts) (Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 2 x 70 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p) each

1: A collection of early films from Victorian times, including Queen Victoria with her family, the Boer War, family life, early cinematograph experiments and theatre and music hall acts. 2: Archive films...

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Industrial Babylon: The Victorian and Edwardian Architecture of Manchester and Liverpool (1989 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 15 slides., 2000 sale: £16.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Shows Liverpool and Manchester at their most ambitious and exciting phase of architectural development, during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, with views of buildings from original site photographs....

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Dracula (2006)

Director

Bill Eagles

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

A terrifying new version of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of sex, death and desire. Returning to the original novel for his inspiration, Stewart Harcourt’s script draws both on elements of Stoker’s own...

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News from Nowhere (1990 Video)

Director

Trevor A Scott

Producer

Michael Orrom

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

William Morris’s ‘News from Nowhere’ is one of the best-remembered Victorian Utopian novels. It indicts the brutalization and wastefulness of Victorian industrialism, and envisions the world as it...

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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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Four with Betjeman: Victorian Architects and Architecture (2011)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £6.99

Four part series narrated by the poet John Betjeman which looks at the work of influential Gothic architects in 1850s England. The buildings considered by Betjeman include the Houses of Parliament, 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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