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  1. Snowdonia Shepherdess (2018)

    Subject
    Agriculture

    Documentary about 26-year-old Teleri Fielden, who is given an opportunity to fulfil her dream of becoming an upland hill farmer. She has won a scholarship to run the beautiful National Trust farm Llyndy...

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  2. Women in Engineering (2016)

    Subject
    Engineering

    A short promotional film featuring women who have been inspired to work in the engineering. [4 minutes]

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  3. Virago: Changing the World One Page at a Time (2016)

    Director
    Clare Whalley
    Subject
    Literature; Women’s studies

    Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women’s literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. [59 minutes]

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  4. Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS (2016)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    Documentary which tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service. [60 minutes]

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  5. Why Do we Need Women Scientists and Engineers? (2015)

    Subject
    Engineering; Science

    Royal Holloway, University of London’s 2015 Women in Science Lecture given by Professor Lynne Frostick of the University of Hull. In the century since Marie Curie did her pioneering work in physics many...

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  6. Ascent of Woman, The (2015)

    Subject
    History; Women’s studies

    Biographer and historian Dr Amanda Foreman explores the history of women since the dawn of civilisation, and the pivotal role they have played in the forging of the modern world. [4 x 60 minute episodes]

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  7. Émilie du Châtelet, Part 1 (2015)

    Subject
    Philosophy

    In this first of two videos, Andrew Janiak of Duke University introduces Émilie du Châtelet, a French philosopher, and explains her contribution to the debate about the principle of sufficient reason. [4...

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  8. These Dangerous Women (2015)

    Director
    Charlotte Bill
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies

    This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28 April 1915, when 1,300 women from 12 countries, warring, neutral and...

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  9. Alison Assiter (2015 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

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  10. Women in Chemistry: Mildred Cohn (2014)

    Subject
    Chemistry

    Mildred Cohn transformed the study of enzymes, building her own high-tech instruments when the right ones weren’t available. She also helped pioneer the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and...

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