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  1. Change for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s, (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Video-based teaching pack looking at British life in the 1930s through archive film, textual data and personal accounts. Contains contemporary archive footage from the GPO Film Unit. The five units cover...

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  2. Domestic Blitz: Life in Wartime Britain (1993 Video)

    Director
    John Gore; Jac Wilkinson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    A video compilation of archive footage aiming to provide an insight into the lives of Britain’s civilian population during the Blitz (1940-41). Footage from DO IT NOW, BRITAIN CAN TAKE IT, and HEART OF...

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  3. Mahatma Gandhi (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Gandhi’s early years in London and South Africa; return to India; confronting the Raj - disobedience, tensions; saint and/or politician; assassination and place in history. Presented by Dr D...

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  4. South African War, The: 1899-1902 (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...

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  5. Stalin: Terror and Transformation (1992 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Stalin’s rise to power; his assault on Russian backwardness; the scale and effect of the purges; Russia and World War II; Stalin’s place in Russian history. Presented by Dr C J Read with...

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  6. Mussolini and Italian Fascism (1991 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers Mussolini’s origins and rise to power, the nature of Fascism; Mussolini as supreme opportunist; illusions and delusions; the new imperialism; nemesis. Presented by Professor J A Davis with Danis...

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  7. Renaissance Stage, The: The Idea and Image of Antiquity (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £38.00 (inc. p&p +VAT)

    Traces the influence of Renaissance concepts of dramatic settings on modern theatrical practice. Shot on location in Italy at three surviving threatres of the period - Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in...

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  8. Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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  9. French Revolution, The (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the causes and course of the French revolution of 1789-93. Covers: the high hopes of 1789 - the Declaration of the Rights of Man; war, counter-revolution and social conflict; the place of the...

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  10. Nazi Seizure of Power, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    Gordon Randall
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Hitler’s early career; Weimar weakness; who supported the Nazis and why; establishment intrigues; consolidation of Nazi power and the purge of the SS in summer 1934. Filmed on location in Munich...

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