TED Talks
Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China
Speaking at a TED Salon in London, Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China Rules the World," he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the...
60 Second Histories
A Victorian day at the seaside
A description of a middle-class family holiday at the seaside booked through Cooks Travel Excursionist.
History Squad
An SS Major
SS-Sturmbannführer Lange gives a straight talking account of his reasons for joining the SS. From his service in WW1 to the Second World War, this character makes no excuse for his choices. The History Squad - Kevin Hicks.
Curated Video
English Book Club - Learn English Through Story: Paddington Bear - English Listening Lesson
Let's discover this classic story in my English Book Club.
Press Association
Passengers face ‘significantly disrupted’ trips into January – Network Rail
Rail passengers have been warned to prepare for “significantly disrupted” travel into the New Year amid a wave of industrial unrest sweeping across the country. The Network Rail warning came as members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’...
Bridgeman Arts
Gi Gis 1960s
Colour. 1960s. Women sit outside Gi Gi's tea stall on the sea front. A woman waits to be served. People sat outside, man waves. A fish stall selling cockles, etc not far away. A horse and buggy, suited driver holds reins. Horse and buggy...
Bridgeman Arts
Train High Speed 1930s
Shots of a steam train (6200) taken from another moving train. We see it leave a platform and build up speed. Close ups of the wheels thundering down the track and long shots of the locomotive passing signal boxes at great speed. It...
Bridgeman Arts
THE METRO OF PARIS, APRIL 1977
We are at a metro station in Paris, France. Passengers on the platform waiting for the train. The filmmaker gets on the train. Arrival at "Arts et Métiers" station. A lighted direction sign for the train’s connection with the one leading...
Bridgeman Arts
Advertising Signs At Goldhawk Road
A camera, film test for Rank Audio Visual. Rank Organisation van. Outside West London tube station. Market, Apples for sale, 6D a bag, Clock of West London Investment Building Society, Firestone tyres and Persil adverts on railway...
Bridgeman Arts
Monte Carlo train station and coast. A man in a motorboat with his dog. French Riviera, 1951
Clip 6 from the 1951 French language film 'Croisiere Bleue' about the South of France, the French Riviera, Monaco and Monte Carlo. High angle shot of train leaving the railway station. Pan of Monte Carlo, Monaco, south of France. Wide...
Sky News
Refugee crisis continues - Refugees Journey to Western Europe
VOICED: Thousands of exhausted, hungry and sick people - many of them children - have begun arriving in Munich tonight after a journey of hundreds of miles across Europe's borders. Germany is expected to take in up to 10,000 mostly...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Bodies from MH17 site placed on train OSCE says told by rebels
CLEAN : Bodies from MH17 site placed on train OSCE says told by rebels
Curated Video
SYND 31-7-73 QUEEN ELIZABETH ARRIVAL FOR COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE
Queen Elizabeth arrival for Commonwealth Conference
1 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip down plane steps and greeted by Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margartet
2 Queen past Guard of honour
3 Queen meets children and crowd
4 parade
5 gv...
Bridgeman Arts
Men driving a horse buggy in the night, 1908 - reenactment
Historical reenactment. 1908, Men driving a horse buggy through the countryside in the night. Filmed on 35mm in 1994.