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  1. Houses of the Grandees (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how houses, even houses in ruins, can reveal a suprising amount about the political power and ambition of their builders. Examines the ruins of the Earl of Strafford’s enoumous house, Jigginstown in...

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  2. Learning and Patronage (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The provision of libraries and university reform was the product of enlightened patronage. This programme looks at the patronage of Thomas Bodley and Archbishop Laud at Oxford, Cardinal Mazarin in Paris and...

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  3. Towns and Patronage (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In towns today there is a surviving mass of evidence for changes and contrasts in 17th-century society. This programme contrasts Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire with the new 17th-centruy town in...

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  4. Eden Valley (1994)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 100 minutes), £15.00 (+p&p)

    Set within a harness racing fraternity, the video explores the conflict between urban and rural values through the medium of an evolving relationship between father and son.

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  5. Rebirth of a Region (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the north of England, once described as Britain’s ‘anvil’ and ‘workshop’ in heavy industries such as coalmining, shipbuilding, textiles and steel. Now these great creators of wealth have...

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  6. Scotland in the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....

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  7. Magna Carta (1992 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., £12.95 (inclusive)

    Looks at the British Library’s two surviving copies of Magna Carta, as well as other medieval documents and footage of the places central to the story of Magna Carta, including Canterbury, Dover castle,...

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  8. Crossing the Border: Images of England in the 1930s (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines how England and Englishness were portrayed in the 1930s in poetry, advertisements, photographs and film. W H Auden, for example, drew attention to the discrepancy between the way ordinary English...

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  9. Lifestyles, Work and the Family (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Jack Leathem
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence SaLe, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines ways in which life has changed in the United Kingdom in the years since the Second World War. Looks at the changes at work and in the home and at how some attitudes have changed through that period....

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  10. Soils of the Fell Sandstone (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

    Shows the range of soils found in one area of northern England and explains reasons for their formation. Shows upland soil types ranging from brown earths and podzols to gley and peat soils in their...

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