AM's frontlist for 2025 includes two titles with fascinating audiovisual primary sources:
Discover a unique and indispensable resource bringing the story of twentieth-century China to life through rare documentary and actuality footage sourced from the renowned British Film Institute (BFI).
The collection offers a vivid portrayal of daily life, historical moments, and transformative events, seen through the lens of foreign travellers. From the rise of communist China to everyday moments in bustling cities and rural areas, these films provide a rare visual journey through a century marked by profound political, social, and cultural change.
A Global History of Epidemics includes content from The British Film Institute tracking the spread and treatment of major epidemics and pandemics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 16 shorts and public information films showcase how infectious disease could be spread and prevented. Some embrace eccentric humour, popular with the British public at the time, while others are either produced by or feature Richard Massingham, a British medical doctor and filmmaker.