Munition Workers at Play

Shades of Lawrence of Arabia in a worn but often beautiful film of WWI desert exercises in Egypt.

Soldiers troop down a leafy Surrey lane in this intriguing wartime newsreel item.

Casualties from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle enjoy their recuperation in Kent.

Travelling with the Red Cross ambulance flotillas through Montereau in central northern France.

All quiet on Germany's Western Front, but the ferocity of Allied artillery bombardment is plain to see in these eerie scenes of carnage.

War is declared in Italy, while a returning hero is welcomed in London.

1926 FA Cup semi-finals: Manchester City v Manchester United, Bolton Wanderers v Swansea Town

Street fights in Tottenham - the start of the traffic-stopping tradition of a sit-down kids feast

Policemen in mufti act out accident scenarios to an assembly of school children, while Safety Sam drives the road safety message home

Goals from the 1923 FA Cup 4th round, featuring QPR v Sheffield Utd, Charlton Athletic v Bolton Wanderers & Tottenham Hotspur v Derby County.

A snapshot of Saturday afternoon football watched by thousands of adoring fans, plus contrasting scenes of Southport and Spurs players in training.

Fascinating tour of London’s schools for the deaf, showing teaching methods and meeting deaf children, including several from Africa and the West Indies.

A new luxury express is put through its paces. This film looks over the shoulders of the select band of craftsmen, engineers and operators, whose combined skills try to ensure that a train journey is a delightful experience.

British Transport Films record the varied daily lives of their neighbours as seen from the high roof of their building in London’s Marylebone.

Illustrating the efficiency of express freight trains, and how they link manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Examining a day in the life of what was then the busiest railway system in the world – British Railways.

The Stationmaster at York guides us through a typical day, from dawn to dusk.

A 1957 film examining the future for British Railways, and some of the opportunities provided by a new modernisation plan.