Monday, July 12, 2021

History Around You

Year published/aired: 1980 ?

Year produced/filmed:

# of episodes: 4 ?

Grade: 9 ?

Genres: Geography, history

Sub-subject: economics, agriculture

Broadcaster:

Production company: Random Film Productions

Story:

Editor: Cyril Roth, Jack Baldwin

Director: Peter Mills

Producer: Stephanie Tennant

Media: VHSx4

Media distribution/sposor: Shell U.K. / Shell Film Services

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Plot (short): Documentaries about infrastructure, social history, geography and culture of Britain, from prehistorics, Romans, Medieval to present.


Episodes:  ~25 minutes each

The Road (1980) History of English roads

The Village (1980) settlement history, Burford, Milton Abbas, Bourneville, Long Milford

The Farmstead (1982) history of farm buildings

The Seaport (1982) (history of seaports, Southampton, Bristol, Liverpool

Info: There are lot's more documentaries by Shell and this staff, starting in the 1950s. But probably not belong to this series.

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