Two Queens at Drury Lane

A humble scrub is all it takes to get these French troops in a lather.

The maiden flight of Britain's first successful rigid airship – just don’t call it a zeppelin…

A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.

Newlywed Tubby fancies another man's typewriter and ends up in hot water with his new wife

Preston North End play Liverpool (probably) in a regional football competition during WWI.

Goat farming, salmon farming and copper mining all feature in this enlightening oddity.

Journalists congregate outside the Japanese embassy in London following the announcement of the death of the Emperor Meiji.

Geeky Pavan takes his 'English Rose' on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi...

Capital scenes thanks to Victorian filmmakers

The Band of the First Life Guards approaches Westminster Bridge during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

Horse-drawn traffic on one of London's busiest thoroughfares

Londoners turn out in their thousands to greet the returning Boer War hero after his famous defence of Ladysmith

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.