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  1. Girobank: The 40th Anniversary of the People’s Bank (2008)

    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government; Social Studies

    Tony Benn speaks about his role, as Postmaster General, in founding the National Girobank, which extended banking services to people on low incomes and revolutionised the transfer of money in Great Britain....

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  2. Design 1 (2007)

    Subject
    Design; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 156 minutes), £25.99

    The DVD features the 6 26-minute programmes in a series that places the art of design in its sociological and technological context. The programmes tell the story of the 20th century through six industrial...

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  3. Passion for Churches, A (2007)

    Subject
    Architecture; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

    Sir John Betjeman applies a wry but affectionate scrutiny to the churches, clergy and parishioners of Norfolk in this television programme first broadcast in 1974. Betjeman opens our eyes to the...

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  4. Salesman (2007)

    Director
    Albert Maysles; David Maysles
    Subject
    Business studies; Psychology; Religious studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £19.99

    Honoured by the Library of Congress as one of the 25 best American films ever made, SALESMAN is a fascinating, non-narrated account of four Boston bible sellers, selling lavish bibles to low income families....

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  5. Nation on Film , Series 2 (2007)

    Subject
    Film Studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

    The second series of six programmes in which aspects of life in the twentieth century are depicted on film, much of it shot by amateurs. Disc One contains Selling Cars, Women’s Football and Kearton’s...

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  6. Paris (2007)

    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

    Parisian historian, Sandrine Viollet reveals the art, literature and music of Paris in this revealing mixture of cultural history, travel guide and insight into contemporary Paris life.

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  7. How we Built Britain (2007)

    Subject
    Architecture; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

    A series of six programmes in which David Dimbleby travels around the country to present a social history of the nation through its buildings, revealing a thousand years of change written in architecture.

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  8. Mitchell & Kenyon Edwardian Sports (2007)

    Director
    Sagar Mitchell; James Kenyon
    Subject
    Film studies; History; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £19.99

    The collection of films on this DVD offers an unparalleled opportunity to see and learn about sporting action at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a century ago, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and...

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  9. British Transport Films Collection Vol. 5: Off the Beaten Track (2007)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 304 minutes), £19.99

    The fifth in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the post-war thirst for visual teaching and educational entertainment and the nationalisation of...

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  10. Open Road, The (2007)

    Director
    Claude Friese-Greene
    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £11.99

    In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, recorded life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. This travelogue was conceived as a series of 26 shorts to...

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