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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...
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,...
Part three of Bill Douglas’ autobiographical trilogy about his impoverished upbringing in Scotland (the other titles are MY CHILDHOOD and MY AIN FOLK). Leaving a children’s home to become a miner and...
Follows on from SEVEN UP and SEVEN PLUS SEVEN. In the earlier films 14 children from a cross-section of society were interviewed at the ages of 7 then 14. Now at 21, with flashbacks to their previous...
An introduction to the Irish University Press reprint series of British parliamentary papers and their use as source material for 19th-century social history.
This film about Laxton in Nottinghamshire, as well as telling the story of the evolution of the village and the continued existence of its common field system, also shows what agricultural life is like in...
A British Transport Films video compilation focusing on the highlands, coasts and cities of Scotland. 1 (1965, 17 min, director Edward McConnell, producer Edgar Anstey): Sketches the emotional quality of...
A story set during the period of the civil wars in England, telling of the commune of ‘Diggers’ set up in 1649 on St George’s Hill in Surrey under the leadership of the visionary Gerrard Winstanley....
Seven selected official British government information films showing how Britain has been portrayed over the last 60 years: 1) Opus (1967, 27 min): an impressionistic survey of the arts in Britain in the...
Presented by Sir John Betjeman, this is a nostalgic tribute to the people and places around the Metropolitan Line of the 1920s, and the change from the idyllic world of Betjeman’s youth into the sprawl of...
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