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  1. Reel Histories: The Film and Oral History Collections of the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (2012)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Talk given by Dr Kevin Greenbank at the Royal Asiatic Society, South London, illustrated with film clips.

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  2. Time There was, A: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (2009)

    Director
    Donald McWilliams
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 87 minutes), $59.95

    Under British rule, white settlers in Kenya claimed the land of hills and valleys, and all its gifts, but by the 1950s they could no longer stem the tide of long-simmering resentment by the colonised Kikuyu...

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  3. Last Days of the Raj (2007)

    Subject
    History

    This drama-documentary, filmed entirely on location in India, charts the events of six traumatic months in 1947 that saw the end of the British Raj. Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 as...

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  4. Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

    Subject
    History; Military Science

    Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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  5. Art, Design and Empire

    Subject
    Art; Design; History

    What could be more British than a nice cup of tea? Fish and Chips? The Union Jack? David Dabydeen discusses the influence of Empire on British art and design.

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