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Uses more than 300 black-and-white photographs from the ‘The Times’ archive to illustrate major events in Britain between 1930 and 1960, showing life in the Blitz, evacuation, and rationing, and the...
Over 300 black-and-white photographs from the ‘The Times’ archive show changes in many different aspects of everyday life, including communications, computers, transportation, fashion, homes and shopping.
Uses oral history testimonies and archive footage to illustrate aspects of the social history of Britain around the years of World War 2. The material has been selected to illustrate the six themes: girls’...
Explores the life and work of Whitby photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - how he started his career in photography, the equipment he used and the people and places he photographed. Features around 200 of...
A collection of 12 Alistair Cooke broadcasts from 1946 to 1968. Cooke presents his opinions and reflections on topics ranging from the decisions of presidents and prime ministers to sporting triumphs,...
The first Prestige Lecture, recorded at the University of Surrey in 1992, in which Sir Crispin Tickell of Green College, Oxford, examines the past, present and future relationship between changing climate...
A collection of materials that use the promotional films of the ‘golden age of American industry’ top reveal the cultural values and social mores of this period of American history. Includes...
The second series of Edgar Reitz’s monumental history of 20th century Germany, subtitled ‘Chronicle of a Generation’. Heimat 2 takes up where the first series left off, focusing on the exploits of...
Examines the social effects of the Industrial Revolution on the North West. Images include early spinning machinery such as Hargreaves’ spinnning jenny, Arkwright’s water frame and Crompton’s mule,...
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