Curated Video
Aethelflaed part 3: Marriage to Aethelred, Ruler of Mercia
Around 886, Alfred took London, reverting it back to Saxon hands. He quickly handed London to Lord Aethelraed of Mercia, perhaps as a wedding gift. Aethelraed and Aethelflaed were married around 886. The couple poured their money and...
Curated Video
British Accents: Cockney
British Accents Cockney. An accent which is based in London, traditionally a true cockney is someone born within the sound of the Bow bells. These days the London accent varies hugely, but let's take a look at a traditional cockney...
The Guardian
No ball games
Celebrating the imagination and resourcefulness of young children across the UK by understanding the outdoor games they invent, inherit and play. The documentary was shot before Covid-19 changed their lives, and shifts from rural Wales...
Financial Times
Bar chart race: the most populous cities through time
Watch the race to be the most populous city on earth, from 1500 to the present day. The FT's John Burn-Murdoch looks at how populations have shifted over time and how the emerging markets have come to dominate
The Guardian
Swipe my race: 'If you're only dating someone for their skin colour, you should consider why'
Against the backdrop of London in 2017 (one of the most multicultural cities in the world) and with a quarter of young people reportedly on dating apps, we hear from BAME people on race preference in dating and in apps like Tinder or...
The Guardian
The Black Cop: a police officer's story of racism, remorse and resistance
The Black Cop is the winner of the British Short Film category at the 75th British Academy Film Awards. This intimate portrait of Gamal 'G' Turawa, an ex-Metropolitan police officer, explores his memories of racially profiling and...
Intelligence Squared
Yuval Noah Harari: Junk food is a bigger threat than terrorism
Yuval Noah Harari: "McD's and Coca-Cola are a greater threat to your life than al-Qaeda and ISIS"
TLDR News
Can Johnson Survive the Local Elections? - TLDR News
With local council elections in London and across many other areas of the UK, we examine what was a poor result for Johnson's Conservatives, who benefitted from their significant losses and what this could signal about a future General...
Amor Sciendi
Virgin on the Rocks
Everyone talks about Leonardo da Vinci as the paradigm of the Renaissance Man. His painting The Virgin on the Rocks is perhaps the best example of his many talents on display.
TLDR News
Is Brexit Failing? 4 Tests to Find Out
With Brexit now in the rear view mirror and trade war on the horizon, we wanted to check how things are going. So we spoke to Professor Jonathan Portes (UK in a Changing Europe) to test Brexit on 4 different metrics & see how things are...
The Guardian
Driving Ms Margolyes – A hilarious road trip through Europe in lockdown
At the height of Europe’s spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she could film the latest series of Call The...
The Guardian
Lives Instead of Knives': one woman's struggle to end knife crime
Smith's Farm Estate in Northolt, north-west London, has been the scene of multiple stabbings. After one murder came particularly close to home, community volunteer Jen Lock began a one-woman mission to end knife crime in the area. But,...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kimberly Chong: What Do Management Consultants Do?
Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Kimberley Chong thinks about it...
Curated Video
Full Stack Web Development MASTERY Course - Novice to Expert - All about Arrays
This video explains arrays in detail. This clip is from the chapter "JavaScript ES6 (Zero to Hero)" of the series "Full Stack Web Development Mastery Course - Novice to Expert".This section focuses on JavaScript ES6.
TLDR News
The Next 10 Days: The Official Day-By-Day Timeline
Yesterday the Queen sadly passed away, plunging the UK into an official period of mourning. So in this video we outline what's expected to happen over the next 10 days, as we work toward the official state funeral.
TLDR News
Russian Money in British Politics: How London's Shaped by Oligarchs - TLDR news
Over recent years London (and the UK) has become increasingly influenced by Russian money and the Oligarchs who control it. So in this video, we're going to examine the impact and implications of Russian influence in Britain and why it...
The Guardian
The Tower Next Door
In June 2017 residents of the Silchester estate woke to discover Grenfell Tower engulfed in flames, witnessing a terrifying national tragedy unfolding on their doorstep. The tower bore a striking resemblance to their own. The victims...
The Guardian
Little Pyongyang
Joong-wha Choi, a former soldier in North Korea, lives today with his wife and children in New Malden - the south London suburb that is home to Europe's biggest North Korean population. Despite enjoying the new-found comforts of his...
The Guardian
Black sheep
Black Sheep tells the story of Cornelius Walker, whose life changed on 27 November 2000 - the day Damilola Taylor was killed. Damilola was 10, the same age as Cornelius. He lived five minutes away. He had the same skin colour....
The Guardian
After Windrush – Paulette Wilson's visit to Jamaica, 50 years on
A letter from the British government classifying Paulette Wilson as an illegal immigrant shook her sense of identity and belonging. ‘Hostile environment’ policies years in the making meant that Wilson and other victims of the Windrush...
The Guardian
The Circle: masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate
Two brothers living on a council estate in Hackney, east London, express their experiences of masculinity, racism and brotherhood through dance and direct testimony. Revealing interviews are set against dynamic movement sequences,...
The Guardian
Somalinimo
As students return to universities around the world, four British-Somali students talk about navigating one of Britain’s most elite institutions: Cambridge University. Their identity is rooted in Somalinimo (‘the essence of being...
The Guardian
I was just a slave': the foreign domestic staff living a life of five-star serfdom in London
They live in some of London’s most exclusive locations, cooking, cleaning and caring for the children of a rich foreign elite. But for many overseas domestic workers, the veneer of reflected glamour conceals a much darker world, one in...