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Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...
Neil Postman argues that childhood is disappearing as a result of watching television. Shows that children are not passive receivers of their culture but active agents in their own socialisation and...
Two discs: the National Disc contains over 9000 sets of data from archives all over Britain. The Community Disc is based on over 24,000 Ordnance Survey maps and street plans.
Shot in a bed and breakfast hotel after months of research with homeless families and single people, looks at the effects of the housing crisis in London and relates these facts to the general economic...
Looks at the growth of women’s groups and the different democratic forms they are adopting. Here, individual women are asked about the social forces that motivated and radicalised them, and their answers...
Most of the 10,000 workers in the Toronto garment industry are migrant women and most of these work for low piece work wages, accompanied by high production quotas and poor working conditions. These women...
Examines whether economic changes are due to conscious actions of individuals, social classes and groups (agency) or whether changes result from the nature of the economic system itself (structure). Takes...
The command and control of nuclear weapons systems in the USA has been at the centre of much debate about its ability to withstand a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Looks at some of the criticisms of the current...
After years of government repression, 80,000 people risked their lives on May 1st 1976 to take part in a protest march and demand an end to the civil war. Documents that march and explores the peoples’...
A history of Jewish socialism between 1881 and the First World War. It deals not only with Jewish socialism inside Russia under the last two Czars, but with socialism as an international export, via over two...
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