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  1. Great Exhibition, The: An Exercise in Industry (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

    Follows the complex circumstances under which the Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, using models at the Museum of London and identical old iron castings from Oxford station, and drawings...

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  2. Seacoal (1986)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 82 minutes), £15.00 (+p&p)

    A drama-documentary set in the industrial landscape of power station and pit, framing the blackened beach of Lynemouth where, for generations, local people and travellers have made their living from...

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  3. Clyde Film (1985 Video)

    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

    Mixes traditional Glasgow songs with stills, archive and contemporary images and uses the river to tell the story of social issues facing the city and its communities in 1937, 1956 and 1985. Draws upon young...

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  4. Glimpses of Family Life (1985 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 90 min.

    Compilation of 15 films/extracts from 1912-1950 looking at family life - health care, school, housing, weddings.

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  5. 28 Up (2 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Director
    Michael Apted
    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale (Granada, Concord) - video, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 62, 73 min.

    The fourth programme in the series that started in 1964 with SEVEN UP, in which 14 seven-year olds were interviewed about their views and how they saw the future. Now they are 28 years old, and all but two...

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  6. Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany - Set 1 (1984)

    aka: Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik

    Subject
    German studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 924 minutes), £59.99

    Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...

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  7. Heart of the Dragon (1984)

    Director
    Peter Montagnon; Mischa Scorer; David Kennard; Nigel Houghton
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 720 minutes), $19.95

    A major series of 12, 60-minute television programmes presenting a penetrating look at post-Mao China. The first programme, REMEMBERING, puts modern China in a historical perspective, and each of the...

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  8. Science and the English Enlightenment (1982 Video)

    Director
    Colin Grimshaw
    Producer
    Denis Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

    Given that Newtonian science is usually identified with the culture of the Enlightenment of the 18th century, Dr Simon Schaffer considers the relationship between the way of life of the English élite and...

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  9. Aspects of Contemporary British History (1978 Audio)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 28 min.

    Discussion between Robert Rhodes James and Professor John Mackintosh. Considers how the dilemmas of 1964 developed - rising expectations with poor market performance; rigid social structure with belief in...

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  10. Changes in British Politics and Society Since 1964, The (1978 Audio)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 28 min.

    Discussion between Robert Rhodes James and Professor John Mackintosh. Decribes and provides factual support for the analysis presented in ASPECTS. Issues discussed include minority politics, nationalism,...

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