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Uses animated maps, historic art work and on-location action video to explain 15th-century trade with the Far East and how trade restrictions helped to bring about an age of discovery. Focuses on Prince...
Focuses on the great explorations of the 15th and 16th centuries, using animated maps, artwork and video. Looks at the shift from the medieval era to the Renaissance; the trade in Asian luxury goods; Prince...
A collection of source material covering the history of the United Kingdom from 1500 to 1750. Structured around 14 investigations into key questions of political and religions change, such as the effects of...
With Drake’s reputation destroyed just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada, the film retraces his final voyage and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture...
In 1517 Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, signalling the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Filmed on location in Europe, the programme studies the...
Explores the life and works of William Shakespeare, featuring re-enactments of 16th-century life and short extracts from some of his plays. Narrated by Terry Molloy.
A series of computer-based packages containing primary source material for teaching history ranging in time from the end of the 11th century to World War 2. Each title contains source material and support...
A hypercard-based program on Shakespeare covering biography, social and cultural background, theatre and plays, and the texts themselves. Also includes over 2200 colour graphics of Renaissance life and art,...
Examines the printing and publishing house founded by Plantin in the 1560s, looking at the wide range of scholarly books which he published including the production of the highly complex Polyglot Bible....
Francis I employed Gilles le Breton to convert his favourite hunting lodge at Fontainebleau to a Royal palace, inviting to France such Italian artists as Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio to...
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