Million Spectators Welcome Return of Football

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

Lionel Martin is just fifteen years old but with eight top football clubs wanting to sign him his future appears mapped out.

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.

What does it take to manage a football team? Two former players talk of the tough role at the top in a world where players are demanding Ј200 a week in wages.

A little piece of football history from the people's game: possibly the earliest surviving game on film

Blackburn Rovers play at home at Ewood Park to an unidentified team in an Edwardian football fixture.

An Edwardian First Division football match played at Blackburn's Ewood Park Stadium.

The entry of the teams and action from both halves of an Edwardian football game at Ewood Park.

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