SS Mongolian Leaving the Clyde (1906)

Crowds throng the streets for the return of Manchester's Volunteers from South Africa.

Troops play up for the camera in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

Some nifty product placement creeps in to this formal portrait of the Lancaster Volunteers.

The might of the British Navy struts its stuff down the Manchester Ship Canal.

The Bolton Artillery Volunteers put on an impressive parade despite the snow. 

Destroyers from the Edwardian Royal Navy filmed from a ship in the Tyne.

Get your freak on with the students at Glasgow’s RAG Weeks in the 1960s.

Two steps forward, one step back as Glasgow’s housing schemes sees residents go from tenement, to prefab, to pebbledashed concrete cottages

A tour of Glasgow's green spaces

It's a wet and gloomy day in Glasgow and the locals are out in force for the annual Territorials' Church Parade.

The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.

Splendour and grace - steel and ships made in Glasgow

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.