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  1. Mathematics and Culture (2015)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Mathematics

    Judith Grabiner describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and...

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  2. Wolf Hall (2015)

    Director
    Peter Kosminsky
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6x50 mins), £10.99

    Boxed set of the six-part adaptation of the award winning novels by Hilary Mantel. - Wolf Hall and Bring Out the Bodies. Set in the period 1500 to 1535, the serial is a fictionalised biography documenting...

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  3. Operation Barbarossa: The Russian German War (2015)

    Producer
    Jerry Lawton
    Subject
    History; Military Science
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £12.99

    First shown on Canadian television in 1995, a 2-DVD set giving an account of the events that unfolded between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. The lives of tens of...

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  4. Last Words - The Battle for Arnhem Bridge (2015)

    Director
    Roger Chapman
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85 minutes), £12.99

    An account of The Battle of Arnhem through the testimonies of the British veterans and Dutch civilians who were there. "Last Words" tells the story of the brutal and heroic battle that took place in...

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  5. Tracking the Emergence of New Words Across Time and Space (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies

    Podcast. Dr Jack Grieve, Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, asserts that very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers,...

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  6. Blood and Glitter: 70 Years of the Citizens’ Theatre (2015)

    Director
    Cath Pick
    Subject
    Drama

    Documentary celebrating the 70th anniversary of Glasgow’s innovative Citizens Theatre and looking back at seven decades of pioneering productions. [60 minutes]

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  7. Babbage and Lovelace (2015)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who may be said to have pioneered the modern computer age with his ‘difference engines’ and his ‘analytical engine’,...

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  8. Best of Enemies (2015)

    Director
    Morgan Neville; Robert Gordon
    Subject
    American Studies; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £5.99

    The televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr in the summer of 1968 are now considered to have changed the way television news programmes were made forever....

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  9. Alchemy’s Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation (2014)

    Producer
    Mariel Carr
    Subject
    Art; Chemistry

    Audio podcast. Art conservator Mark F. Bockrath, and art historian Elisabeth Berry Drago, discuss and show the messy and occasionally dangerous process of making paints from pigments and the transition to...

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  10. Price of Memory, The (2014)

    Director
    Karen Marks Mafundikwa
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 83 minutes), £50.00

    In 2002, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamaica for her Golden Jubilee Celebrations. While there she was petitioned by a group of Rastafarians for slavery reparations. For Rastafarians, reparations are linked to...

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