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

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

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.

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.

Arkita believes herself to be be modern, liberal and independent. An unprecedented encounter with a transgender sex worker questions her beliefs.

Martin Gorham presents a video update to his staff, outlining some of his department's past achievements and upcoming challenges.

In a madcap musical, a 'cat'-stronaut travels the galaxy looking for the meaning of life and encounters a space pup eager to help.

A longer version of the famously icky anti-smoking promo in which cigarettes ooze fat.

“If you care, show it” - is the message to encourage voting in the Scottish elections, long before the galvanising independence referendum of 2014.

A South Asian gaze on representation, inequality and discrimination in UK film and TV, set against the backdrop of the casting room.