Coventry North West By-election

As the general election is held in the UK, it's polling day for the Clangers on a small blue planet far away.

It's the 1935 general election and Stanley Holloway recites a comic monologue promoting the policies of the National Government.

The Labour Party takes a heartfelt look at Bristol council’s social(ist) housing and education agenda, spinning a 'new story from an old city'.

Slough gets a resounding thumbs-up from a reluctant ratepayer in a surprising 1950s government film.

Party-political hyperbole meets Wacky Races in this spirited cartoon produced for the Conservative Party.

Some remarkably well informed (well, for the most part) children interviewed prior to the 1964 General Election.

Join the Clague family as they zoom up an empty M1 to Stratford upon Avon, Long Itchington and Coventry - a city reborn after its 1940 destruction

Two councils with two different approaches to LGBT rights.

The UK's immigration laws have prevented Dara Singh from seeing his family for a decade. His is one of many sad stories...

The industrial Midlands pioneered textile production; from the framework knitters of Nottinghamshire to the birth of the modern factory in the Derwent valley in Derbyshire.

The surreal presence of barrage balloons on the Coventry skyline gives this home movie an end-of-an-era feel.

Teachers and pupils of 3 schools in Trafford, Stevenage and Coventry make the case for the acceptance of difference without discrimination.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.