London's May Queen

London schoolchildren wave their flags for the first official Empire Day, as soldiers parade in the playground.

Colonial recruits from Trinidad meet the Lord Mayor of London during WWI

Soldiers show off a fine crop of sprouts, grown at the Army Service Corps depot at Osterley Park in Hounslow.

Was this a lesson in how to shell out on frontline firepower?

High milk prices during WWI drive mother and child onto the street in protest

Angelic children, dressed in white and garlanded with flowers, are shown at the annual May Queen festival in Hayes Common.

Sweet-faced white-clad children march in procession to muddy Hayes Common, where the latest May Queen is crowned in a popular annual ceremony.

Charming film of cherubic children, as London’s new May Queen Bobbie Hastings enjoys a ceremonial crowning at Hayes Common.

Short film showing a parade featuring the new May Queen of London, anointed in an annual ceremony at Hayes Common.

Flowers and banners are deployed as 13-year-old Nora Rowland from Acton is crowned London’s newest May Queen for 1927.

A grand parade of gaily dressed children marches through Hayes on the way to crown the latest May Queen.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.