Multimedia Lectures

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Created: 2014-09-10 08:50
Institution: King's College
Description: A set of texts and films based on lectures given by Alan Macfarlane in the Department of Social Anthropology and elsewhere between 1975 and the present
 

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This collection contains 14 media items.

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Blacksmith shoeing a horse

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Chinese Weapons

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A short talk in 1999 by Christopher Cullen as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Making gunpowder

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A short talk in 1999 by Christopher Cullen as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Markets and Money

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Rice and oxen

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Sword making in Japan

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A short film in 1999 as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall films. With kind...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


The complex logistics of eighteenth and nineteenth century warfare

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A short talk in 1999 by Simon Schaffer as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


The development of commerce and banking

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


The divergence of systems of warfare east and west and their effects

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A short talk in 1999 by Simon Schaffer as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


The spread of European Agriculture

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


The steam engine and industrialization

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A short talk in 1999 by Simon Schaffer as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Types of development: industrious and industrial

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Warfare in the East and West over the last thousand years

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A short talk in 1999 by Simon Schaffer as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014


Water, mills and the origins of capitalism: the role of the Benedictines

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A short talk in 1999 by Alan Macfarlane as part of the background to the Channel Four series 'The Day the World Took Off', broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000, and filmed by Windfall...

Collection: Multimedia Lectures

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 10 Sep 2014