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  1. Thomas Telford: The Man Who Built Britain (2017)

    Director
    Lester Wilson
    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 59 minutes), $24.95

    Arguably a greater engineer than Brunel, Telford led the way for Britain to become one of the great engineering nations of the world. Although he worked 200 years ago, scores of his creations still adorn our...

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  2. Ethical Theory II (2016)

    Director
    Joe Jenkins
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, [unknown]), £90.00

    Ethics Online II consists of three films on the comparative normative theories of virtue ethics, natural moral law and utilitarianism. Each film aims to offer a fresh perspective on these benchmark theories....

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  3. Edison: The Father of Invention (2015)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £14.99

    Born on the threshold of Americas burgeoning industrial empire, Edisons curiosity led him to its cutting edge. With just three months of formal schooling, he took on one seemingly impossible technical...

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  4. Wolf Hall (2015)

    Director
    Peter Kosminsky
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6x50 mins), £10.99

    Boxed set of the six-part adaptation of the award winning novels by Hilary Mantel. - Wolf Hall and Bring Out the Bodies. Set in the period 1500 to 1535, the serial is a fictionalised biography documenting...

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  5. Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Queen guitarist Brian May explore 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death epitomises the image of the "tortured genius".

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  6. Beauty of Anatomy (2014)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 50 minutes), £390.00

    From the Venus of Willendorf, thought to be over 27,000 years old, through to Marc Quinn’s modern self-portraits in blood, the human body has always been one of art’s central themes. This two-part series...

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  7. Tess (2013)

    Director
    Roman Polanski
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

    Restoration of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. This is the first time that TESS has been available in High Definition. Nastassja Kinski...

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  8. Why the Enlightenment Still Matters Today (2012)

    Subject
    History

    Video recording of the 2012 Joint Royal Historical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture in which Professor Justin Champion argues why we would be wise to go back to explore some of the more radical...

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  9. Placing the Author: Wordsworth, De Quincey and Dove Cottage/ The Poets of Harlem (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.00

    This video, taken from the Open University’s A230 Reading and Studying module, looks at how landscapes and communities have influenced some of our most famous poetry. From William Wordsworth’s Daffodils...

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  10. London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social welfare

    Video recording of a lecture held on 7 March 2012 in the series ‘The Lost Hospitals of London’ organised by Gresham College. (53 minutes) In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of...

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