His Worship the Mayor Leaving Lancaster Town Hall (1902)

The crowds stand silent as the nation says goodbye to Queen Victoria in February 1901.

A political giant at his magnificent Highbury estate in Birmingham.

Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the British army, returns from South Africa to cheering crowds.

A bagpipe band marches in honour of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, on her visit to Liverpool.

The future King of Siam takes a trip across the Mersey.

Crowds clamour for a view of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (on tour) in the Isle of Man.

Congratulations to the happy couple! A lovely record of a special day in Lancaster.

A great surge of workers pushes through the gates of a Lancashire mill.

Some nifty product placement creeps in to this formal portrait of the Lancaster Volunteers.

Lancastrian workers spill out of a huge textile factory. 

Workers at a Lancaster linoleum factory leave and the gate is firmly shut behind them.

Actor and writer Joanna Scanlan talks to Mia Bays, director of the BFI's Filmmaking Fund, about her career in film and television.

Horace Ové's striking portrait of the American writer James Baldwin at his sharp-witted best addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London.

An emotional stand-off takes flight, as teen best friends Ronit and Brennan come to terms with navigating that fuzzy feeling in their stomachs, all whilst learning to skateboard.

While visiting the adoptive family of her eight-year-old biological son, Tara relays advice she gathered from growing up as a queer outcast.

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.

Banished in a dilapidated village hut during her menstruation, a young girl waits to elope with her lover.