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  1. Jamaica Problem

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    14
    NoS ID
    347017
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS synopsis: Jamaica’s economic problems and her struggle for survival, especially her need for new industries and wider education.

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  2. Land Short of People

    Date released
    Nov 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    347019
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: A survey of Australia’s growth and the problems still facing the new nation. Contains a plea for new immigrants to develop Australian resources.

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  3. The British - Are They Artistic?

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    16
    NoS ID
    347021
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: A discussion of the cultural life of Britain and the people’s reaction to drama and the arts. Features George Bernard Shaw, Myra Hess, Norman Collins, Charles B. Cochran, and Robert Donat.

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  4. Living in

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334741
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours...

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  5. New Look for Tanks

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334742
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines...

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  6. Keep it Moving

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334743
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: emergency measures for the transport of coal in winter weather; volunteers at Haslemere station help to move coal supplies.

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  7. Coal on Ice

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334744
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family...

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  8. Turn of the Tide

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334746
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Britain exports coal again, looking at the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff.

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  9. Miners with Gloves on

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334747
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...

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  10. Pithead Nurse

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334745
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.

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