Leicester City Football Training

Flush on wages of £160 per week, George Best ponders money in the game, the pressures of fame and his footballing future.

A fascinating compilation of local topical footage from Workington.

Action shots of the great Billy Meredith, the ‘Prince of Wingers’, the legendary soccer star who played for Manchester City, Manchester United and Wales.

Argyle's Mariner scores in front of Bobby Robson

Professional footballers answer the call of duty and get in training; many would go on to fight in the Battle of the Somme.

A day in the life of stylish “Gentleman George” Hardwick, the new manager of Sunderland Football Club.

Bringing "sweet memories of Uganda" to the East Midlands.

Samosas sit alongside sandwiches as India's Republic Day is celebrated in fine style in Leicester.

He arrived in Britain with £3 and went on to become one of the richest business men in the Midlands. How did Amrat Parmar do it?

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

The sari has been worn by Asian women for millennia and in 1976 it was about to become a staple of wardobes across the UK.

Light bulbs, television tubes and nuclear power stations: electrifying the world with AEI.

Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.

A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.

It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames

An unusual farewell in this charming early film