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Sophie and the Collieries

Season 1 | Episode 6 | ABC Me | December 9, 2015

Sophie, from York, follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, Roger Hampson, who spent his life painting the industrial area he grew up in, in Tyldesley, Lancashire. Inspired by LS Lowery, he is part of what has come to be known as the northern school of British artists.

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10:22 | Modern history

Exploring the Past

Kirsty and the NHS | Season 1 | Episode 5 | ABC Me

15 year old Kirsty discovers how the new National Health Service saved her grandmother's life when a new mobile x ray unit picked up the early signs of TB in a random test.

Years 7-10

10:07 | Modern history

Exploring the Past

Elliot and Immigration | Season 1 | Episode 4 | ABC Me

15 year old Elliot from West London finds out how his grandfather, Philip, stowed away on a cargo ship from Ghana, to build a new life, alongside thousand of migrants, brought in to help build the new post war Britain.

Years 7-10

10:28 | Modern history

Exploring the Past

Amba and Women's Work | Season 1 | Episode 3 | ABC Me

15 year old Amba explores the role of women in the immediate post war years. She talks to her great grandmother Betty, who worked in a food processing factory in Hayes, and was paid less than her male fellow workers on the same production line.

Years 7-10

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Titanic: Stories from the Deep

Love Survives | Episode 1 | The History Channel

The story of Isidor and Ida Straus; their great love and the curious circumstances of her death. The Addergoole Fourteen - 14 immigrants from the village of Addergoole whose journey on Titanic is remembered and memorialized to this day. And George Rosenshine and Gertrude Mabel Thorne whose love caused them to defy conventions of the day and whose story is told through a leather satchel recovered from 12,500 feet below the Atlantic Ocean.

Years 5-12

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Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Sydney 2019

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Filmed in Sydney, set against a full-size replica of Edinburgh Castle, the renowned Scottish spectacular features a cast of more than 1500 making it the largest Tattoo ever in its 69-year history.

Years 3-12

1:36:34 | Modern history

Dunkirk

Seven

In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. In a heroic mission, British and French forces evacuated thousands of soldiers.

Years 11-12