The East Anglian Film Archive, the UK's first regional film archive, offers a unique record of the East of England's social and cultural history. As part of the University of East Anglia, we continue to lead moving image heritage research and inspire audience participation through community projects and events. Our collections represent a broad range of amateur and professional creativity, from 1896 to the present day.
Battle Goes On Over Sunday Trading
(About Anglia)
Opinions on the idea of Sunday trading from the Keep Sunday Special and Open Shop campaigns.
From the Cambridge offices of the Keep Sunday Special campaign, Valentine's Day is marked by over 125 meetings organised to discuss Sunday trading, and messages sent to Members of Parliament including a card from the shop workers' union USDAW to the Prime Minister. Peter Nott, Bishop of Norwich, expresses his fear that Sunday trading will disrupt family life, particularly as so many women are part-time workers. Nigel Whittaker of the Open Shop campaign puts the retailers' case that people can choose whether to shop on Sunday.
The 'Keep Sunday Special' campaign was set up to in 1985 to challenge plans to introduce Sunday trading in England and Wales. It was run from the Jubilee Centre in Cambridge, established by Dr Michael Schluter. The retailers represented by Nigel Whittaker of B&Q met with legal, economic and political obstacles. A bill to de-regulate Sunday trading failed in 1986, but in 1994 the Sunday Trading Act allowed large shops to open for six hours on Sunday, and smaller shops at other times. The reporter was Chris Young for this video filmed to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme 'About Anglia'.
From the high street to the information superhighway: shopping undergoes a makeover.
The 1980s heralded a sea change in the way we shopped - and what we shopped for. Reflecting the growing impact of new technologies, from the arrival of credit cards to the consumer electronics boom and ultimately the internet shopping age, this collection also journeys through the changing face of our high streets into the 1990s and beyond.
This is the era of out-of-town supermarkets and supersized shopping malls muscling in on the traditional town centre trade. Many smaller villages faced the loss of local shops entirely, but they didn't give up without a fight. Alongside these existential threats, local news reports investigate such emerging issues as convenience food labelling, shoplifting and the campaign to 'Buy British' as domestic manufacturing continued its long and painful decline.
Glimpses of long-lost chain stores, brands and products that once dominated everyday life across the UK may inspire more than a whiff of nostalgia. Yet this collection also tells a story of continuity: despite the all-powerful internet, we do still seem to want to come together to shop in the 'real world', not least at Christmas, and those seasonal shopping moments are here waiting to be unwrapped
33 videos in this collection
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Shopping
Newcastle upon Tyne
1999
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Shoplifting Is On The Increase
Chelmsford
1983
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Dog: Dog Days
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Post-Christmas Sales
Belfast
1984
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Toy Fair 1980
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Charm School
St Austell
1989
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Round Robin: Think British
Norwich
1982
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Debden Village Shop Re-opens
Debden
1982
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Anderson and McAuley Department Store
Belfast
1986
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Credit Card Shopping in Northampton
Northampton
1986
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Villagers Open Community Shop
Stetchworth
1984
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St George's Market
Belfast
1980
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Shopping Centre Santas
Belfast
1984
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Yvonne Aston is the New Outsize Model
St Ives
1985
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Chinese Supermarket in Nottingham
Nottingham
1985
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Big Night Out Shopping
Belfast
1985
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E Numbers in Everyday Popular Products
Norwich
1985
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Battle Goes On Over Sunday Trading
Cambridge
1986
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Counterfeit Goods
Hornchurch
1987
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CD Video is the Future
Belfast
1988
Shop Safely on the Net: Virtual Mail (BSL / subtitles)
