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News in Flashes

Date released

18 Dec 1944

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/63; Paramount Issue No.: 1440

NoS ID

156749

Story no

2 / 3

English girls married to Canadian soldiers leave for Canada. New air-sea rescue technique. Parachutists drop new kind of lifeboat. Demonstration of lifeboat - useful in Pacific War. Pacific war in the...

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Caribbean Women in World War II (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1994 sale: £40.00

Charts the little-known story of women’s involvement throughout the British Empire in World War 2. Four black women now living in London provide a fascinating piece of oral history, told with insight and...

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World War II-Queen Elizabeth broadcast (1989)

Genre

Speech

Archive broadcast by Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) stressing the importance of the active role of women in the Second World War. Originally broadcast 11/11/39. The recording was broadcast on LBC...

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End of the Year Show 1984 (1984)

Review of news events in 1984. TRACK 1- World War II Veterans in Portsmouth, Normandy Landings, excerpts from Radio Victory documentary on D-Day Landings and recollections of local people. D-Day Remembered....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Media Screen Roundup - November 2013

Date

17 Dec 2013, 17:11

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. It never ceases to amaze me how articles...

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Memoirs of Women Who Went to War, The (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £10.00

Eye-witness accounts by women who contributed to the British war effort during World War 2. Includes the Royals, the WAAF, the WRNS, the ATS, the WVS, the AFS, Air Raid Wardens, Civil Defence, Women’s...

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Home Front 1939-1945, The

Subject

FE; History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 90 minutes), £5.99 (cassette) £9.99 (CD)

First-hand accounts from 15 men and women who lived in Britain during the Second World War including sections on the outbreak of war, evacuation, domestic conditions, war effort, air raids and VE Day.

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Women of Steel (1984 Video)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

Women munitions workers recall the part they played during World War 2 - the types of work they did in the factories and the harsh conditions there, the constant air raids, food rationing, trade union...

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They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942 Film)

Subject

Economics; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Stresses the importance of repairing existing civilian vehicles as a means of shielding new vehicle production for military priority and shows the ability of women to take on this sort of work. It also...

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Royal tour of Australia - Queen’s speech on Anzac Day (1988)

Genre

Speech

Excerpt from speech by Queen Elizabeth II, in Hobart, where she spoke to 4500 ex-servicemen and women and 4500 spectators on Anzac Day (25/04/88) commemorating those who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during...

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