Day School Sports at Park Avenue in Bradford (1902)

Dumfries schoolchildren take their turn in the spotlight.

A small battalion of Yorkshire schoolchildren lines up for a playground photograph.

The proud winners of a Blackburn school football match pose for posterity.

Jubilant schoolchildren spill out of a Catholic primary school in Edwardian Preston.

Deprived Edwardian kids of Burnley enjoy some midsummer fun in the park.

Lancashire children perform physical education exercises in (almost) perfect unison.

Meeting the everyday basic needs of the locals: keeping the family clean, warm and well fed.

Juno-Junipah, for girls, who “want to be bright, vivacious, attractive and slim”, and Carters Little Liver Pills to rejuvenate the elderly.

Tuning into the biggest consumer market for television advertising in Britain with Trident TV.

No wearisome overblown advertising for cinema-goers back in 1931, just straightforward advice: don’t risk accidents and “Don’t buy a dud!”

Without trying to be too clever, these advertisements demonstrate the virtue of the uncomplicated: short, sweet and memorable.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson opens the University's first building in this celebratory film that acknowledges decades of effort.

Charlie Hammersley, a student from Northumbria University, explains how Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film holds up a mirror to society. 

The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.