The John Harvard Programme
VHS Colour Sound 2001 9:42
Summary: Part dramatised film about the life of John Harvard. The film includes details about Harvard's life and education in Southwark and Cambridge and the Plague which killed most of his family, in Southwark. Harvard's mother owned the Queen's Head Inn in Borough High Street which was left to him on her death. After Harvard's marriage to Ann Sadler in 1636 the couple set sail for America. They settled in Charlestown from where Harvard ministered until his death in 1638.
Title number: 3384
LSA ID: LSA/4436
Description: Part dramatised film about the life of John Harvard. The film includes details about Harvard's life and education in Southwark and Cambridge and the Plague which killed most of his family, in Southwark. Harvard's mother owned the Queen's Head Inn in Borough High Street which was left to him on her death. After Harvard's marriage to Ann Sadler in 1636 the couple set sail for America. They settled in Charlestown from where Harvard ministered until his death in 1638.
Credits: Ted May (Narrator); Anthony Corcoran - Production Assistant; Kate Mendham (Script); Mike Gogan (Executive producer) (Producer); Richard Haig (Executive producer) (Producer); Philp Francomb (Producer); [unknown] (Composer)
Cast: John Harvard - John-Paul Rodgers;
Further information: A CreaTiVideo production in association with The Virtual Experience Company for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Additional credits: With thanks for the generous assistance of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Harvard University; Plimouth Plantation, Massachusetts; Staff of the Harvard Library, Southwark; The Dean and Chapter of Southwark Cathedral; The Duke of Devonshire & the Chatsoworth Settlement Trustees; Ann Donnelly & Mairi Macdonald of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Keywords: Theatre; religion; Writers; Bankside; St Saviour's Church; Plague
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